Making A Murderer

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Making a Murderer is a very controversial Netflix series that caught the attention of several viewers. In this documentary series, the main character Steve Avery is wrongfully convicted of rape in 1985 later to be exonerated by his DNA. The DNA that was found pointed to another man that the police refused to purse. The Wisconsin Innocence Project helped free Avery then later organized a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. After his release, Steven Avery was destined to cash in from a civil lawsuit for the wrongful conviction he faced for eighteen years. Only then to find out he along with his nephew was being charged the murder and disappearance of a local woman, Teresa Halbach. Throughout this series, individuals …show more content…
I believe that if they were 100% accurate then there wouldn’t be appeals in our court system. If there wasn’t a loop hole for other ways to get a new jury and location for appeals court then our court system would make sure that the evidence against the accused would be so solid that there wouldn’t even be an appealed made. I believe that all court cases should be randomly selected outside your county so that people couldn’t be so biases on the decisions to affect someone’s life. With this switch of counties, it would help out the real innocent from being accused from unlawful justice system. It is near to impossible to remove all bias from a case of any kind, but it is best to try to reduce the amount in any shape or form. For this criminal case, the bias opinions probably deeply affected the outcome of this entire trial mainly because there were so many people of this community involved in this case. There will always be the facts behind the gruesome murder of Teresa Halbach, but the only people that will truly know the truth is the real murderer and Teresa Halbach …show more content…
I believe that since that county had already had false accused Steven Avery in a former case, they should have no jurisdiction on new cases on Steven. With this county already having a grudge with looking bad with falsely accusing of rape would make the reasoning that them planting evidence make more sense. I think if other counties in the country are shown that they have the wrong person it should already be placed as a conflict of interest. Do to the fact of them being able to intervene a crime scene should fall under the law that would destroy someone’s character do to previous encounters with any justice system. When the other investigators came into the scene to take over Manitowoc should have lost all rights to even been able to enter the crime scene. I believe if this was an actually law then there wouldn’t be any questions about this case about evidence that could’ve been planted and would help with further investigations that are similar in Steven Avery’s case. The lack of evidence and the misconduct of using the criminal justice system with investigators, law enforcement, and the state of Wisconsin can be used as a valuable lesson for the country and other states to follow. The controversy around this Netflix series stirred several individuals to question the current criminal justice system that is used

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