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  1. Aug 1, 2022 · Luke Perry plays John Goodnight, a Chicago lawyer turned cynical by lawyers, until he’s summoned to the governor’s office and dispatched to Wyoming as a justice of the peace. Rebecca Shaw, the woman who raised him, is behind the appointment.

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  2. Luke Perry saddles up as frontier circuit judge John Goodnight in the first of three films starring Perry as a Roy Bean type judge. Unlike the fictional Bean, Perry's a real lawyer and not a judge because he's got deputies to back up his ruling.

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  3. A Chicago lawyer who believes in the law but not in lawyers, John, who lives hard and according to Rebecca should long ago have been dead because of it, has just been appointed by the Governor of Illinois as a circuit court judge for the Wyoming Territory, known as the most lawless region on the continent.

  4. Goodnight for Justice. When John Goodnight was a boy he watched in the weeds as his entire family was killed in a ruthless outlaw attack. Now as a circuit judge of the western territories Goodnight travels the west protecting the innocent from injustice.

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    • Western
    • Jason Priestley
    • 2011-01-29
  5. Rugged lawyer becomes a circuit judge, proceeds to free a village from a rich racist and manages to track down his parents' murderer in the process. Perry's a natural as Judge John Goodnight in this enjoyable TV western directed by his former Beverly Hills 90210 co-star Jason Priestley. First in a series.

  6. it seems, do not so much remedy a "bad press" as they reinforce stereotypes about lawyers and civil justice in other mass media while romanticizing heroic outsiders to the law. Extensive analysis of the most prominent public-interest litigation film, Erin Brockovich, reveals that it both derides lawyers who represent underdogs