When people hear the word “justice”, it often invokes a positive connotation. It is a promise of protection and fairness. However, this may not always be the case when unreliable individuals are trusted with such power and responsibility. Twelve Angry Men, Serial, and the series Making a Murderer all bring to light the immense power of our underlying biases and stereotypes as they can cloud the truth. In Twelve Angry Men, members of the jury make assumptions of the defendant because he of where he came from. They said, “Slums are breeding grounds for criminals.It's no secret that children from slums are potential menaces to society”. Statistically, many criminals do come from poor areas so the jury members were compelled to use this stereotype
