Making a Murderer

[Dawn Meredith]

For those who have Netflix streaming, please watch this documentary. I binged watched it over NY Eve and Day.

No spoilers from me.

Just watch and discuss.

I especially want to hear from Drew, given that, like me, he is a criminal defense attorney.

Dawn

[Drew Phipps]

I watched the first episode, and it is interesting and well done enough to warrant more. However, I have neither the time (nor the attention span) to "binge watch" anything.


That being said, I've had clients in whom law enforcement has taken an unusual interest. Once, as in here, the victim was a relative of a cop. Sometimes the client "cops an attitude" with the wrong officer. Sometimes its about personality differences between lawyers. Sometimes clients get found not guilty, or get less harsh sentences, than prosecutors and detectives think they deserve. (Maybe that happens more than "sometimes".) Sometimes those situations result in subsequent overzealous investigations and prosecutions. That usually doesn't end well. For anyone.


Look at the Michael Morton case. After more than a decade in prison for a murder Morton didn't commit, the overzealous prosecutor (Anderson) gets removed from the district judge job that case led him to, and goes to jail (for 5 days?!?), and the next prosecutor (Bradley) that tried to fight Morton's release winds up losing his job, facing ethics charges of his own, and eventually has to move to the Republic of Palau to find a job. Should be an object lesson to more prosecutors, but most of them have that "couldn't happen to me" attitude about it. Of course, m[B]ost [/B]prosecutors I know wouldn't act unethically.


I'm looking forward to the next episode.

[Drew Phipps]

'Making a Murderer' fans found a new piece of evidence that could change the whole case.

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/01/20/ma...D789005637

Paul Schrodt Jan 20th 2016 5:01AM

When the podcast "Serial" went viral, fans on Reddit and elsewhere set about looking for clues themselves. The same is now happening for the Steven Avery case at the center of Netflix's "Making a Murderer" docuseries, and viewers have discovered a fascinating new piece of evidence. Jerry Buting, one of the original lawyers defending Avery in the trial for the murder of Teresa Halbach, recently spoke with Rolling Stone, and said that Internet sleuths had found something he and his partner had missed

"We were only two minds," Buting said. "What I'm discovering is that a million minds are better than two. Some of these people online have found things with a screen shot of a picture that we missed."One of the crucial pieces of evidence dug up by those sleuths is a detail found in a common photo of Halbach before she went missing and died: It shows the victim with a keychain that has a number of keys on it.



During the investigation of Halbach's murder, the police found a contested key to Halbach's car in Avery's home. But they only found the one key not the rest of the keys seen on her keychain, which were never recovered. Had this evidence been introduced in Avery's trial, it would've bolstered the argument that the sole car key, found weeks after an initial search of the Avery property, was planted. And if Avery does ever get another trial, it could help him still.

[Dawn Meredith]

Good find!