Attorney Billy Murphy on “The Wire”
February 19, 2008
Did anyone see Baltimore attorney Billy Murphy’s cameo performance on “The Wire” Sunday night?
Here’s a synopsis of one scene with Murphy in it, from the HBO’s synopsis of the episode, Took:
State Senator R. Clayton “Clay” Davis tries to talk defense attorney Billy Murphy into taking on his case without receiving his full fee up front. Davis offers $25k up front and $25k when Murphy seats a jury. Murphy insists on his full $200K fee, but Davis counters that he’s giving him a great publicity opportunity going up against State’s Attorney Rupert Bond. Charmed, Murphy tells Clay to save his silver-tongued salesmanship for the jury.
And here’s from the ep’s Wikipedia entry:
Senator Davis appears in court, and it looks as though he is going to be heading to prison. With the amount of paperwork that Freamon and Sydnor got on Davis, it didn’t seem like he could get off. That was until he hired Billy Murphy to help him out with his case.
Let us know what you thought of Murphy and “Took.”
JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor
Sphere: Related ContentBilly goes Baltiwood
December 10, 2007
Baltimore lawyer William H. “Billy” Murphy Jr. is no stranger to cameras: he has stood in front of them after defending boxing promoter Don King in federal court in Manhattan in 1998 and after winning a $276 million verdict against what was then First Union National Bank in 2002.
But more recently, Murphy seems to have taken a jurist admirer’s words to heart.
“He’s got a flair,” retired Baltimore City Circuit Judge Edgar P. Silver said in a 2002 Daily Record article on Murphy. “He could’ve been a Hollywood actor.”
Murphy will play, essentially, himself in the upcoming final season of HBO’s Baltimore-based series, “The Wire,” The Baltimore Sun reports.
And as soon as the Washington-based nonprofit Flex Your Rights Foundation raises enough money to complete the project, Murphy will narrate its next public awareness video: “Street Law: How to Deal with Police & Racial Profiling.”
Any other lawyers or judges out there who are ready for their close-ups?
BRENDAN KEARNEY, Legal Affairs Writer
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