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User Reviews for: Making a Murderer

-Parzival-
CONTAINS SPOILERS8/10  6 years ago
Well, I'm not from the USA but I'm watching a lot of TV from the US including news shows and documentaries like this.
To me, living in Europe, the justice system of the USA is comparable to countries the USA doesn't compare itself to. As it seems, corruption (especially in law enforcement) and therefore justice is a huge problem, not only in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. It's all over the USA and has a lot of its roots in the law enforcement system. In Europe to become a law enforcement officer you have to undergo a 3-5 year training before you're allowed to enforce the law by your own. In the USA (as to my knowledge) you can become a sherriffs office law enforcer simply by showing up at the office and have no police record (simply said and not in every state but still).
Also the US justice system of a jury (who are no experts in crime issues and the justice system) ruling if the charges lead to a person beeing guilty or not is just not practicable in the 21st century anymore. But in the USA you can't give a judge all the power on it's own like it is in France or Germany for example because judges are set-in by politicians to act the law on behalf of their political opinions. (See Trump/Kavanaugh) I'm not saying it's perfect in other countries, but it's a lot more fair and professional. Also it's a lot less affected from outside persons, politicians and opinions.
In the end this series puts a dagger in the heart of Wisconsins justice system and the law enforcement of Manitowoc. And that's about time! Something has to change in the US justice system.
This show is absolutely phenomenal especially because it's going waist deep into the material instead of just scraping the surface. It should open the eyes of every american citizen that something isn't right if a documentary tells you, that a person is allegedly falsly imprisoned the second time and the show empored by Avery's lawyer can privode evidence that shows that plainly.
I really hope this is eventually leading to solving the murder and imprison the people behind it including everyone who was in on this.
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saundrew
8/10  8 years ago
I feel like Facebook was just blowing up with thoughts on this documentary for a while there. So, I figured I had to watch it to see if people were being crazy, or if the was actually amazing. Well, kind of in the middle I think. In terms of a documentary, I think this was pretty well done. Now, you have to look at it like it is a documentary set out to make an argument. If you think it is made with every bit of evidence and isn't trying to prove that the police are bad and the accused are innocent, you are really missing a lot here.

A documentary doesn't need to be unbiased (unless they claim to be). They just can't make things up for me to like it. However, I have to admit that I'd have loved the finals episode to be someone from the other side making their case for why this dude is guilty. I keep seeing articles online doing that, and I'll be reading some soon here. Instead I think they did make this a little longer than necessary. I'd have preferred it being only 6 episodes or so and just get through it a little faster.

All in all, very good and interesting. Just don't watch this and assume it is absolutely, 100% accurate. At least look into other sources before you sign a petition.
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aneemelia
9/10  7 years ago
The way most of the prosecutors argumented made me sick to my stomach. The way they "gathered" evidence, I just don't believe it. So much bad police work and work by the state against this family. It's sickening. This might be biased, but heck, when it comes to the way these two people were handled, they don't deserve it. Even if they were guilty, the handling of the case was so problematic. And tbh, I don't even think they did it. They don't seem capable of doing it, and tbh there's no motive. To fuck up one owns life after 18 years in prison like that, and he didn't even (as far as I know) start violent fights in prison at that time or something similar, so where's the motive? No, there's foul play here. I hope if there are people out there who can help this case and cases like it, work hard to get the truth Oh how I am disgusted by the system, how a mans life is up to 12 random people in a jury. Where someone might already (as seen in the series) think the man is guilty BEFORE even starting the trial. It makes me sick how people don't take into account all that is being done in a trial, instead of just focusing on (highly possibly) planted evidence. Oh my, I don't.. I don't believe in God, and viewing this, I have even less faith in any "goodness" up there, or even in our hearts, we're sick. The human race is sick to judge someone without evidence beyond reasonable doubt. My goodnesss.. I have no more words.
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