Movie Review Making A Murderer - 1915 Words

The Netflix series ‘Making a Murderer’ completely depicts the majority of the topics covered in our judicial process class. In 1985, Steven Avery had all of his constitutional rights taken away from him when he was sentenced to prison for a crime that he did not commit. He served 18 years and then was released thanks to the Wisconsin Innocence Project who believed in him. Then in November of 2005 Steven Avery was arrested for the murder of Teresa Halbach. Steven was convicted of homicide on March 18, 2007. Steven’s lawyers spent an endless amount of time demonstrating to the jury how the evidence simply did not add up. In this paper I will identify numerous of themes discussed in class and I will show why I believe Steven Avery did not get†¦show more content†¦It also showed that Avery wouldn’t have needed to put Teresa in her car because the burn pit was close to his home and he supposedly killed her in his garage. These techniques were used all t hroughout the trial and were very beneficial. During my research I also noticed that Steven Avery’s main attorney, Dean Strang, attended one of the top public law schools, University of Virginia. Jerome Buting attended University of North Carolina School of Law. I find it comical that when I found that out I thought, â€Å"No wonder Strang was the lawyer to deliver all of the arguments and Buting stayed in the background.† The last chapter we talked about in class was Ch. 12 Trials and juries and that is a great place to start. From the beginning of his trial Steven Avery was denied the right to a fair trial. When the jury pool was going through the venire they received a questionnaire and on that questionnaire they were asked if they thought Steven Avery was innocent. 129 of those questionnaires came back guilty and only one said that they believed he was not guilty. That means 129 people had already made their mind up that he was guilty before hearing a shred of test imony or evidence. The sixth amendment states that Avery had the right to a fair trial and the right of an impartial jury. Even though they were able to get the venue changed from Manitowoc County to the nearby Calumet County, the community had already been influenced by the media. They went through all