Caso cerrado (show)
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| Caso cerrado | |
|---|---|
| Format | Judicial |
| Starring | Ana María Polo |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Production | |
| Running time | 1 hour |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Telemundo |
| Original run | February 2002 – Present |
Caso cerrado (Closed Case) is a Latin American, Spanish language, television program broadcast by Telemundo in which Cuban-born judge Ana María Polo arbitrates cases for volunteer participants. The show began in February 2002 as Sala de Parejas (Couple's Court) and was renamed in April 2006.
On each show, Polo usually considers two or three different cases between conflicting guests and attempts to resolve them as an arbitrator. She does not function a judge but an arbitrator to settle differences between the guests or litigants.
The guests are all volunteers and are required to sign contracts before appearing which legally obligates them to accept Polo's decisions.
The latest shows of the TV have been suspicious of being not real, but dramatizations of real life events or even fake stories with the sole purpose of increasing ratings. A show broadcast in the beginning of 2008 about a man who raped a boy dead by a missing bullet, resulted later in the evidence that, at least, some of the shows are not real, as the man is a known artist in Puerto Rico and as per request of his managers, he presented a good behavior certificate showing that he raped no child. Since then, the program has less rating than before (especially in Puerto Rico) and the credibility of the program is at stake, putting it on the same position as programs such as those led by Laura Bozzo and Jerry Springer. Also, the main forums in the program's site in the Telemundo website were unexpectedly shut down, accordingly due to obscenities and insults from people from the very production of the show.
