You... You can’t sue for stuff like that in the UK. You’d be laughed out of court :/
You... You can’t sue for stuff like that in the UK. You’d be laughed out of court :/
Here’s the thing, though- they reached out to Halbach’s family to try to talk to them for the documentary, and they flat out refused to participate. So did the prosecution and the police. The only people who agreed to participate were the Averys. So of course it’s going to focus on that part of the story when those…
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…
Shining a nationwide light on corrupt law enforcement, judges, and prosecutors is the most important takeaway.
I know it’s been said, many times many ways, but the impression that I got from the doc wasn’t so much that Avery was definitely innocent, but just that the investigation and trial were messed up enough to warrant a second look.
Just yesterday, in response to a story about the honor killing (by stoning) of a pregnant Pakistani woman, you wrote: