Rather than doing a pps infinum I thought I'd start another entry.. This deals yest again still with the making a murderer on Netflix which I've already done an entry for, and a P.S. and everything so.. Here I am using someone else as the main body of the entry.. Check it out.. From the Huff Post crime watch blog.. :
"Warning: Spoilers for Making a Murderer ahead.
1.
At every stage in the criminal justice system, poor people in the
United States, disproportionally people of color, receive less justice
than anyone else.
When a criminal charge is filed against
a person, a fair defense requires a committed and passionate lawyer
with adequate training and resources to fight the awesome power of the
State.
Anyone who watches Netflix's 10-plus hour series, Making a Murderer,
concerning the Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey cases in Wisconsin, will
see how Steven Avery's trial lawyers, zealously fight for their
client's interests at every turn, personifying, at its best, the
constitutional right to effective counsel. By comparison, viewers see
16-year-old Brendan Dassey's first lawyer announce to TV reporters
immediately after his appointment that his client is guilty, only later
to be removed by the judge for, among other things, allowing, in his
absence, detectives to interrogate his intellectually and socially
immature client -- yielding statements that would later be used to
convict him.
Early on in the series the viewer learns that Avery
is only able to afford to afford his lawyers after receiving a lucrative
settlement in a civil case filed against the Manitowoc Police
Department in Wisconsin (for railroading Avery in an earlier sexual
assault case in which he was innocent, costing him 18 years in jail).
Not
all "paid" or "private" lawyers are good attorneys, and not all
"court-appointed" lawyers and public defenders are bad. However, it is a
sad but true fact, as Making A Murderer ably illustrates, that
the quality of justice in this country directly correlates to the
amount of resources a defendant has. And, because, in the United States
people of color are uniformly paid less, hired less, and have less,
justice is, unfortunately, not colorblind.
Making a Murderer
is filmed in Wisconsin where the population is overwhelmingly white,
but it is important to remember that it is people of color in our
criminal justice system, who, at every turn, disproportionately suffer
the negative effects of race and class on our criminal justice system.
2. Police officers, prosecutors and other people in authority are not inherently good -- or bad.
Making a Murderer
successfully shows that police officers, prosecutors and other public
officials are no different than any other people: Some of them are
"good" people and some, are very, very bad. It is important for us as
private citizens, to remember this, whenever we interact -- during a
traffic stop, when called for jury service, etcetera -- with people in
authority.
3. Criminal defendants -- like victims
-- have innocent family members who are deeply affected by the level of
fairness in our criminal justice system.
The heartbreak,
isolation and desolation of the Avery and Dassey families as they are
forced to navigate the criminal justice system seeps through each of the
10 episodes in the series. With over 2 million people in jail in
America, Making a Murderer reminds us of the many other
millions and millions of families -- sons, daughters, parents and so on
-- affected each and every day by their loved ones incarcerations.
Stephen Cooper is a former federal and D.C. public defender. He writes full-time and lives in Woodland Hills, California."
Basically said if you are rich play like there is no tomorrow.. If you are poor, be a good boy/girl...
Badge Henry
(P.S. I've said this before but I will repeat it here.. You watch the show and get all excited "how can I help these poor men railroaded by the justice system.." Just sit back and think about it and discuss with other people who watched the series and see how others feel about it.. Truth is here a week after watching it I don't know how I feel about it.. There likely wasn't as much put in there about the police and justice system.. I feel like it was extremely piled towards the defendants, and less about the police.. They did ransack Stevens trailer house on many days.. What they couldn't find anything in the first two or three times?? I feel like that is very questionable behavior on the law officers part.. You see other things said here and there and the truth is you hope that won't happen here.. But ever community has those questionable fabric people.. But they are living their lives, you have troubles with them, as long as they don't involve you everything s fine.. There are turns you can make.. Just stay clear of them.. Simple.. )
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