I haven't watched the show since Diane Wiest came on, though I see some of those newer eps in rerun and I am always entertained by the show. Could you tell me what she did that got her fired, and was the coming out a joke, a surprise we the viewer didn't know about because the show spends so little time on personal elements, or was it also a surprise to the other cast members?
I've noticed the creeping of personal crap into the show--which I loathe. Show the detective/legal stuff, not a $%%$#%$#@ soap opera. I don't care if the DA's porking cop A or B!
Fred Thompson told her that she was fired because she was too passionate about being a prosecutor, that she was too much into advocacy. As a prosecutor myself, there's something to that, but for this t.v. show, that's an incredibily lame and stupid reason.
On tonight's show the primary Defendant was not guilty of murder (his "best friend from the hood" was), and she kept harping on his being innocent to McCoy and Thompson, and whining that no one listens to her. She even went so far as to confront the Defendant, without his lawyer present, and try to convince him to turn his friend in. That little stunt would get a lawyer in serious trouble (but they completely ignored that aspect on the show).