with all the money being spent on this big government we can’t afford some snow tires? If Trump were president we’d have tremendous snow tires and he’d make the Canadian’s pay for them!

There’s no point trying to reason with this person. They’ve made up their mind about something they haven’t even seen yet.

It says a lawyer may request the dismissal. Each request will be considered by the judge and may or may not be allowed.

My thinking was that the defense went with the better of two options. A jury from Calumet would not have been beneficial to Avery, being that it was Teresa’s hometown. While there was no love of the Averys in Manitowoc, at least there people knew of the wrongful conviction, the lawsuit and thus a possible vendetta…

“Cause” doesn’t mean “any reason the attorney comes up with.” It means some sort of bias that cannot be set aside in order to rule fairly on the case. In small towns like this, there will be a lot of connections to law enforcement or the DA’s office or even to the witnesses and parties. That’s not cause for that…

See my issue is when you look deeper I totally see why those things were left out.

Thank you.

As an FYI, having a connection to a LEO is not, in and of itself, “cause.” Which is problematic in small town jury selection.

Haha ok, “legal expert”....

If you can't handle a discussion forum, leave. People are allowed to discuss this case, people can have opinions. That's not them acting like legal experts.

Am lawyer. Can confirm.

There's a limit to how many people you can remove from a jury and the defense actually hit their limit.

I agree. I had the same takeaway from Serial. Maybe those guys are murderers, maybe they aren’t, but how on earth would a jury come away with no reasonable doubt? And WHY WHY WHY was the sheriff’s office still involved when they could have so easily turned everything over to the victim’s county law enforcement?!?! And…

The defense was only allowed to toss out six potential jurors. You are aware of that, right? That they don’t get an unlimited amount of people to throw out of the jury?

Totally. And I actually think the filmmakers meant the takeaway to be just that. Instead, a huge proportion of viewers appear to have come away with the impression that he’s definitely innocent and now that people are raising some legitimate questions about the things that the series may not have shown us, they turn…

Yeah, Jez has decided to take the ‘he is guilty and that is all that matters’ approach largely to go against the grain. Again.

That’s about the size of it. Especially when at the outset of the deliberations, seven people were voting not guilty, two were undecided, three were for guilty, some jurors had connections to the police department, and they ended up convicting him of the murder but not of the corpse desecration charge. There was fucky…

I agree. I think that their bias was absolutely clear in the way they made the film. Including all the facts would not have diminished the obvious mishandling of this case by Manitowoc County police and the Calumet County detectives and prosecutor’s office. Their bias really takes away from the overall impact of the…

This.

“A jury doesn’t deliberate twenty-some hours over three or four days if the evidence wasn’t more complex.”