I don't particularly care for Catherine Crier, but I thought she was nicer to Barth than I would have been. She asked Barth a question about something Stern was alleged to have done, and Barth totally ignored her and went on a tirade about what Virgie had done. She asked her again, and she attacked someone else rather than answer a "yes or no" question. Crier asked her to please answer her question, and the woman would not shut up. Crier told her she was too good a lawyer to be doing that, because she knew that Crier and others were aware of what she was up to. I am no attorney, but I knew what she was up to...she didn't want to answer the question, so she was 'chasing out rabbits' trying to defame someone else and change the subject! I would have cut off her mike, and told her if she was not going to answer the question, but only going to use the time to attempt to destroy someone else's character and credibility, she was not welcome on the show!
Catherine is a former judge as I recall so she knew exactly what Barth was doing and decided to let her "hang herself". She knows her viewers know what's going on.
I wish I'd seen it, then I could have been better informed. No matter what, lawyers doing their jobs cannot violate attorney-client privileges, so Barth should have simply said that. I imagine Crier had Barth booked for the show and there was a bit of ambushing going on. I was just going to say something else, but it's pure hearsay. Oh, OK, I'll pass it along..... I read on one of the CourtTV threads that Barth has been getting emails containing nasty posts from message boards about Stern, and she probably has had it up to "here" with all that. If true, well, that's childish. It's one thing to send emails that don't support her client( which is fine), and another to go to the trouble that someone alledgedly has.