[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I don't think avery is a likable character but then, that's sort of the point... He wouldn't be in this situation if he was. It's easy to pin something bad on someone unlikeable.

I can't force myself to care about the fate of Avery himself. However, I am interested in the way the justice system works in America and the way it's all been handled is fascinating. At times the prosecution straight up lies to the jury and it goes mostly unchecked.

Example: stating that they have "scientifically proven" that the blood wasn't planted, when an expert has already explained that this is impossible to prove. The test they used can be used to prove that it WAS planted, by presence of a certain chemical substance. The absence of that substance does NOT mean that it wasn't planted. It's a straight up lie, a misrepresentation of the evidence. How are things like that being allowed?

..I think it's like that 'pack' thing in a way, obviously a much complicated version but a basic principle..?..of how people will stand up and defend a 'popular and likeable' but not so much with an 'unlikeable'..but then interesting though that the jury were (7 was it..?..) not guilty at the beginning, 2 undecided and just 3 guilty, so very much in his favour and then obviously a guilty was reached...(do we wonder if there was influence on the jury as well/I don't know..)...I think at the end of the trial, I started to think that the police genuinely did think he was guilty, which was their motivation ..they just couldn't leave him out there, a free man...but then, this little 'hick-billy' person that he was had taken the trust, confidence and faith of the citizens of the town away from the police department with the first conviction and wrongful imprisonment, so was it just a pride thing and something they became obsessed with...either way, it's still hard to get my head around the fact that they didn't even attempt to explore any other possibility in their total focus and that no one else was ever a suspect....