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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This is a very good post, thanks.
My wife and I binge watch this series last week, and I echo many of the thoughts and comments already posted here.
But what this documentary series really emphasised for me was the terrifying fragility of the US justice system. I don't watch courtroom proceedings on television, and have virtually no experience with them beyond what I know from film and television dramas. I have to say, watching how entrenched the outcome of this case was made on pontification, persuasion and anecdote was nothing short of alarming. It astonishes me that in this day and age people are so readily convinced by the power of oration and correlation.
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And further, what really burns me is that every court of appeal all the way up to the state Supreme Court upheld that unfair conviction to the point where, as Strang says, Avery literally exhausted every avenue of legal recourse.
I get it, law enforcement sticks together.
Ultimately I feel that every Judge who heard that case had one thing going through their mind:
"If we allow him a new trial and he isnt convicted Steven Avery is going to sue the State of Wisconsin for every penny they have a few that they dont. He has to stay in jail."
Based on little to no evidence. That is terrifying. Made even more terrifying by how easy it seemed to be as well as the fact that the people who did it get to keep on keeping on as though nothing happened.
The Sheriff and DA from the 1985 conviction are living at home, retired and collecting their generous state pensions. No consequences for gross negligence bordering on criminality whatsoever.