Finished watching the documentary series, Making a Murderer on Netflix.
I was sceptical when I first started watching it, as I thought I'd never get absorbed into a documentary about likely wrongful imprisonment. But I watched it anyway, given it had very high reviews and everyone on the internet were raving about it, and I had nothing else to watch, having just finished watching Farscape for like the 12th time and finding the follow-up mini-series The Peacekeeper Wars had been removed from UK iTunes.
Anyways, after watching the first episode of Making a Murderer, I got really fixed and binge-watched the rest in a couple of nights.
What really got to me amongst all the numerous examples of sheer police negligence was the treatment of Brendan Dassey. The fact that interrogators coerced an untruthful confession out of him and the jury believed it was just abysmal. Part of the reason why they believed it seemed to be because of his body language during the interrogation - shy, quiet, withdrawn, nervous, avoiding eye contact... because that means he's guilty, right? (sarcasm)
let's say they put me in that room. I have only left the UK once when I was about 7 for a holiday in Portugal, so I've never been to America. Nobody in the world would be stupid enough of accusing me of the murder and I'd know that. Yet I'd have exactly the same body language and nervousness as Brendan did. Granted, I don't have learning difficulties and would never be coerced into lying by manipulative police officers, but the fact remains that using that as evidence really struck home to me.
So yeah, that's what I've been watching XD
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28 Feb 2016, 10:50 pm
