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# John Oliver Had Dennis Quaid and TV Cops From _The Wire_,   _Law & Order_ Fix Miranda Warnings

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* No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle.
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## Melissa Locker


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## Melissa Locker


Sep 14, 2015 7:54 AM UTC

On Sunday, _Last Week Tonight_ tackled public defenders, or as John Oliver defines them, “the only people who have been to court more frequently than former child stars.”

If you don’t know any public defenders, you probably recognize them from TV, where arresting cops tout the fact that if you can’t afford an attorney, one will be provided to you. However, according to Oliver, while access to a lawyer is supposed to be a constitutional right, if you’re poor it can be incredibly difficult to access their over-worked, under-appreciated services.

According to Oliver, Fresno County public defenders represent up to 1,000 felonies a year, while state guidelines recommend no more than 150\. As Oliver points out, that’s three cases a day, or in other words, “Gerard Depardieu wine-drinking numbers.” In New Orleans, part-time public defenders have an average of seven minutes per case to prepare a defense, such a short span of time that Oliver noted he would not be able to write his show, but only a ranking of attractive Muppets. New Orleans has put up a crowdfunding page to help cover its budget shortfall. “No one should be in jail because a Kickstarter didn’t meet its goal,” said Oliver, noting that the people behind the successful Kickstarter for an inflatable Lionel Richie head should be in jail “all night long.”

“It’s easy not to care about this \[issue\],” Oliver said, so he devised a way to make people interested: Bring in a bunch of TV cops like Dennis Quaid, Sonja Sohn, who played Kima Greggs on _The Wire_, Jeremy Sisto from _Law & Order_, and many more to help rewrite the Miranda warnings and let criminals know that an attorney will be provided to them, but only if they can afford it.

### _The Wolf of Wall Street_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd12d8527f3bb155f/6987860f55a85974bfa86950/truecrime-5.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp)

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, Leonardo DiCaprio, 2013, ph: Mary Cybulski/©Paramount Pictures Mary Cybulski—Paramount

This saga of white-collar crime is slightly less violent than other true-crime films, but no less debauched. Based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir of the same title, we follow the stockbroker along his meteoric rise as he cons his way to making millions of dollars through illegal trades, eventually culminating in an unraveling personal life and criminal charges. A surprising number of the movie’s hijinks are factual, according to the memoir.

[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J8CG6KE/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00J8CG6KE&linkId=2083987c78ff467a48ae123cb2aab977)

### _Monster_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17658a5a9a30e858/6987860e5f570f6012b16052/truecrime-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

MONSTER, Charlize Theron, 2003, (c) Newmarket Releasing Newmarket Films


The biopic follows Aileen Wuornos (played by Charlize Theron), a prostitute who kills a series of johns, claiming each one was trying to rape her. She confesses when it seems like her lover, Tyria Moore (Christina Ricci) might be implicated in the crimes. Wuornos was executed in 2002.

[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TT74ETI?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=B00TT74ETI)

### _American Gangster_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b728acab26f26b3/698786122dce0160f59de4d5/truecrime-13.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

AMERICAN GANGSTER, Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin, 2007\. ©Universal Pictures Universal Pictures

The Denzel Washington vehicle depicts Frank Lucas as a criminal mastermind, running a massive Harlem crime ring funded by his drug business. In real life, Lucas did indeed make a major profit on heroin imported from Southeast Asia, cutting out the middlemen, but he denies ever having stashed it inside the caskets of American casualties being shipped home from the Vietnam War. The movie makes Lucas out to be a major informer on crooked cops and fellow drug dealers when he’s caught; the real Lucas has denied this.


[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00174TKGI/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00174TKGI&linkId=f63d5c1409f5320818ef9e8de1581018)

### _Goodfellas_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafbf1bd02a6e76cf/6987860fa988cac2256ad2ba/truecrime-6.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino, and Joe Pesci publicity portrait for the film 'Goodfellas', 1990\. (Photo by Warner Brothers/Getty Images) Archive Photos/Getty Images

The Scorcese classic leaves out a few moments from Henry Hill’s life, but the New York gangster (played by Ray Liotta) really was in the Lucchese crime family. As in the movie, he was part of the Air France robbery and the cover-up of the murder of Billy Batts. He did indeed enroll in the Witness Protection Program with his family, but was kicked out after a few years for committing crimes. He died in 2012.

[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016YBFZ8/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B0016YBFZ8&linkId=dc043ab80efd23adddaf728f1750f7e8)

### _The Black Dahlia_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34e760cab85547a5/698786128e060104b445b09e/truecrime-12.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

THE BLACK DAHLIA, Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, 2006, ©Universal Universal Pictures


The movie takes as its starting point the still-unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, whose naked corpse was discovered cut in half in a lot in L.A. But from there, it departs from the facts greatly, diverging into sordid, murderous plots affecting the police officers investigating the case and the women in their lives.

[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Q0VTDS/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B003Q0VTDS&linkId=9ab35cb3e6f641230c69a54ca574cac7)

### _The Bling Ring_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b636c5e8f18b497/6987860f55a8590cbba86948/truecrime-4.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp)

THE BLING RING, from left: Taissa Farmiga, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, 2013\. ph: Merrick Morton/©A24 A24

A group of teens and young adults get their kicks robbing celebrities, breaking into their homes and taking their pick of jewelry, clothing, cash and more. The criminals’ names were changed for the Sofia Coppola film, but several of the real rich victims appear—Paris Hilton, for instance, even agreed to let scenes be filmed in her home.


[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F91H15W/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00F91H15W&linkId=364ec177bc95a56596f49188efce905d)

### _Zodiac_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a531e979edfda9f/69878611cd6848881609a68d/truecrime-10.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

Paramount

The Zodiac Killer case remains unsolved, but this David Fincher movie focuses more on the investigators than the criminal. Police detectives and reporters try to unscramble clues from a killer who sends ciphers with hints about his murders in northern California in the late 1960s and early 70s. The case consumes one journalist (Robert Graysmith, the author of the book the film is based on) to the point that he loses his job and his wife.

[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VK7KVQ/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B000VK7KVQ&linkId=3efceb2d11250b0be9d62ff44f629d34)

### _Foxcatcher_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt220320d859bafe91/6987860ecd1bbacedd6f5f21/truecrime-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

Sony Picture Classics


The Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo movie dramatizes the relationship between John du Pont and two wrestlers who trained and lived on his facilities at Foxcatcher. He eventually shoots one of the brothers dead. In real life, du Pont was indeed convicted of the murder, but the details of his relationship with the Schultz brothers differ: for instance, the two never lived on the estate at the same time.

[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R2LU906/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00R2LU906&linkId=f831e0d98f7939f514d3053863f89c64)

### _American Hustle_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8395b7095a9af731/69878610cd6848485509a689/truecrime-7.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

Richie Dimaso (Bradley Cooper, left) and Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) talk in a gallery at the Frick Museum in a scene from the motion picture "American Hustle." CREDIT: Francois Duhamel, Columbia Picutres' ORG XMIT: Christian Bale (Finalized);Amy A \[Via MerlinFTP Drop\] Francois Duhamel—Columbia Pictures

The names and some details may be different, but general arc of the David O. Russell con movie is fairly true to the events of the Abscam operation. The FBI really did use a swindler (Mel Weinberg in real life) to bust politicians taking bribes, and they really did pose a man as a fake Arab sheikh to catch them in the act of accepting his money.


[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J2PEZAU/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00J2PEZAU&linkId=c6ebd90146afe17fe059429239d6a383)

### _Bully_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt669a9b8c459fea65/69878610524fc06968ded2e8/truecrime-8.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

Lions Gate Films

A group of teenagers plots vengeance on a friend and bully who has raped two of them. They bring their target, Bobby, to a swamp where several members of the group participate in his violent killing. In real life, all seven of Bobby Kent’s killers were prosecuted and received varying sentences.

[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BESLM5Y/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00BESLM5Y&linkId=8a7e8c0dd0b97cba7d13df6f531a4342)

### _Bernie_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt648c84b7b6ddc186/69878613cd68482e1209a692/truecrime-15.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

BERNIE, Jack Black, 2012\. ph: Deana Newcomb/©Millennium Entertainment Deana Newcomb—Millennium Entertainment


Jack Black plays Bernie Tiede, a charming, do-gooder funeral director in Carthage, Texas, who befriends a much-older millionaire widow, Marjorie Nugent. Their relationship grows strained, and he shoots her and hides her body in the freezer. The film sticks fairly close to the facts—including the townspeople’s continuing support for Bernie even after he confessed. After the movie came out, the real-life Tiede was released after 17 years in prison based on evidence that he’d been abused as a child and his outburst was tied to Nugent’s controlling relationship with him. The court ordered Tiede to reside in the garage apartment of the filmmaker, Richard Linklater, on his release.

[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008PF8Q8U/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B008PF8Q8U&linkId=7214a2e9f0f281486ca2cda65c520c09)

### _Alpha Dog_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7b6d0023dbfe4f11/6987860f55a8596258a8694c/truecrime-16.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

ALPHA DOG, Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde, 2006, (c) New Line New Line


The names were changed for this Nick Cassavetes movie, but the story follows the same arc: Johnny Truelove (whose real-life name is just as ridiculous: Jesse James Hollywood) is an L.A. drug dealer who exerts major influence on his debtors. When Jake Mazursky (in real life, Benjamin Markowitz) can’t pay back the money he owes, Truelove and his associates kidnap Jake’s half brother, Zack (really Nicholas). He enjoys his time in captivity, however, and makes no effort to escape. But fearing that they can’t set him free without going to jail, several of Truelove’s cronies take Zack into the woods where he’s shot and buried in a shallow grave.

[**_Watch it now_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MBI3T0/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timemovies-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B002MBI3T0&linkId=6ed4a82727bdd62226eaa640cd456ee8)

### _Blue Caprice_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69098017e37536df/6987860ea988cad7526ad2b6/truecrime-2.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp)

BLUE CAPRICE, Tequan Richmond, 2013\. ©IFC Films IFC Films


The film documents the relationship between teenager Lee Boyd Malvo and his farther figure, John Allen Muhammad, who terrorized the Washington, D.C. area in a weeks-long shooting spree that killed 10 and wounded others in the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002\. They trained their rifle on random civilians through the back window of a blue Chevrolet Caprice. Malvo is serving several consecutive life sentences; Muhammad was executed in 2009.

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### _Bronson_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt132f058651d09d91/698786112dce010e059de4d1/truecrime-11.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

BRONSON, Tom Hardy, 2009\. Ph: Dean Rogers/©Magnet Releasing/Courtesy EverettCollection Vertigo Films

This biopic tells the story of Charles Bronson (né Michael Gordon Peterson), a British criminal who is constantly getting into brutal fights, in prison and out, with guards and inmates. He’s been moved to dozens of prisons for bad behavior and spent much of his time in solitary confinement; the net effect is that he’s often called Britain’s most dangerous criminal.


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### _Catch Me If You Can_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt298d77559cb7885b/69878612cd1bba44c46f5f29/truecrime-14.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, Leonardo di Caprio, 2002, (c) DreamWorks DreamWorks

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Frank Abagnale, a young con man who was able to make millions forging checks while posing as a pilot, doctor and lawyer. An FBI agent (played by Tom Hanks) pursues him until he’s captured. In the movie and in real life, Abagnale eventually becomes an FBI adviser, helping prevent exactly the kind of fraud he committed.

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### _In Cold Blood_

![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddffbf9c33f98a4f/69878610e53aba02d24d85a9/truecrime-9.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

Colombia Pictures


The film inspired by Truman Capote’s “non-fiction novel” tells the story of two outlaws, Richard Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who murdered the Clutter family in their home in a quiet Kansas town in 1959\. Both were hanged in 1965.

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### _Black Mass_

![Black Mass](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc27ae78edaf12d00/6988a591ab6d77f6156ab2fd/black-mass.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

Warner Bros. Pictures

Based on the 2001 book of the same name, this movie sticks close to the facts of Irish-American mobster James “Whitey” Bulger (played by Johnny Depp) as he becomes an informant for the FBI during the 1970s. As in the film, the leader of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang used the protection granted by his status to cover the organized crime ring he continued to spearhead before going into hiding for 16 years. Now 86, he is three years into serving two consecutive life terms.


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### _The Iceman_

![The Iceman](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26b1908527dd38ae/6988a5922dce01fe5f9ea9c5/the-iceman.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp)

Millennium Entertainment

Michael Shannon plays the notorious hitman Richard Kuklinski, who was convicted of murdering five—though he later claimed to have killed more than 100 men—after decades of keeping his job as a contract killer a secret from his wife (played by Winona Ryder) and two daughters. The film alludes to Kuklinski’s abusive childhood, at the hands of both parents, and chronicles how his increasing sloppiness led to his eventual capture in 1986\. He died in prison in 2006, at the age of 70.

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