Former Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro Joins CW Network

Former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro has a new court show on the CW, Judge Jeanine Pirro, which premieres this afternoon at 3pm and 3:30pm.

This is not Pirro's first time on TV. She has also been a regular contributor to Fox's The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, a Fox News legal analyst, and a substitute host of On The Record. She is certain to bring her 30 years of experience in the district attorney's office and her no-nonsense personality to the show.

Pirro's career in Westchester began in 1978 when she bacame the county's assistant district attorney. And like any other public figure, her legal career has also had its share of controversy.

Among the highlights is her refusal to reopen the 1989 Jeffrey Deskovic case in which Deskovic, who was charged and sentenced for the murder of a fellow student, was denied a DNA test to prove his innocence. It wasn't until 2006, when Pirro left office that Deskovic, who had proclaimed his innocence several times, was allowed to take the DNA test and prove that he was, indeed, innocent and he had wrongfully spent 16 years in prison.

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