Documentary about a miscarriage of justice has brought amateur detectives out in force – but the internet’s judgment will not fix a broken legal systemWatching Netflix’s Making a assassin is an exercise in frustration: over a seemingly epic miscarriage of justice; over course prejudices potentially dressed up as a murder trial and over a systemic failure to find the truth. Inasmuch,it seems the perfect ending to a year where the system – rather than individuals – was on trial. Once again, people are looking online for a solution outside that system. But it’s a wrong turn. contemporary internet justice is not real justice, or to believe so is to abandon the very system this explain demands be fixed.
Making a assassin chronicles the trial and conviction of Steven Avery for the first-degree murder of the young photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. Avery’s case initially caught the attention of two graduate students at Columbia University’s film school because only two years before Halbach’s disappearance,Avery had been released from prison after serving 18 years for a crime he did not commit. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com