YELP REVIEWERS ARE GOING AFTER THE PROSECUTOR
WHO SUCCESSFULLY CONVICTED STEVEN AVERY OF MURDER, AND THAT
IS WHAT THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY ëMAKING A MURDERERí IS ALL ABOUT.
IF YOU WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON NETFLIX, WHICH I
HIGHLY RECOMMEND, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH STEVEN AVERY WAS FRAMED
FOR MURDER, WHICH IS WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE UPSET AT PROSECUTOR
KEN KRATZ.
VIGILANTES ARE GOING ON HIS YELP PAGE AND LEAVING SOME
STRONGLY WORDED COMMENTS.
LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.
ONE PERSON WRITES, "THE LIVES YOU HAVE RUINED.
THE LAW
YOU AND YOUR CONTEMPORARIES COMPLETELY DISREGARD.
YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING HUMAN BEING AND WHAT MAKES ME
WANT TO VOMIT THE MOST ABOUT YOU IS THAT YOU MOST LIKELY SLEEP
WELL AT NIGHT.
YOU SIR, MIGHT POSSIBLY BE A SOCIOPATH.
YOU SHOULD BE THE ONE IN JAIL, SO YOU MAY NOT CONTINUE TO RUIN
INNOCENT PEOPLE'S LIVES AND WREAK HAVOC UPON THE JUSTICE
SYSTEM."
TO GIVE YOU SOME MORE CONTEXT INTO STEVEN AVERY, HE WAS
CONVICTED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT THAT HE DID NOT DO, AND HE
SERVED EIGHTEEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR IT.
THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED PRIOR TO HIM BEING CONVICTED FOR MURDER.
IF YOU WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH HE MIGHT
HAVE BEEN FRAMED.
I DID NOT WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY, AND KEN KRATZ
SAYS, WAIT A MINUTE, THEY SHOT HOURS AND HOURS OF FOOTAGE
AND THEN THEY ONLY PRESENT ONE SIDE OF THE STORY.
THAT IS WHAT HE'S GOING TO SAY NO MATTER WHAT.
HE SAYS THEY DID NOT SPEAK TO ME, SO IT IS UNFAIR.
THE FILMMAKERS GO, NO, WE ASKED TO SPEAK TO YOU MANY TIMES
AND YOU REFUSED TO SPEAK TO US.
WHAT I KNOW AND WHAT I CAN COMMENT ON IS THE GENERAL
TREND IN AMERICA, WHICH DRIVES ME CRAZY, WHICH IS, I GOTTA GET AHEAD.
YOUR LIFE IS RUINED?
IMMATERIAL TO ME.
I GOT MY CAREER TO WORRY ABOUT.
SO IF WE WRONGLY CONVICTED YOU ON THE FIRST CHARGE, AND
YOU SPENT EIGHTEEN YEARS IN PRISON, INSTEAD OF BEING A HUMAN
BEING AND THINKING, MY GOD WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO THIS PERSON?
HOW CAN WE MAKE IT UP TO THIS PERSON?
WHAT CAN I DO IN MY LIFE TO GIVE THAT EIGHTEEN YEARS BACK IN
ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM TO THIS PERSON?
NO, WHAT DOES THE SYSTEM DO INSTEAD?
THAT IS EMBARRASSING TO US, THAT TWEAKS MY PRIDE A LITTLE BIT,
THAT TWEAKS MY CAREER A LITTLE
BIT, SO LET'S GO CRUSH HIM.
LET'S GO DO ANOTHER INJUSTICE ON HIM AND PUT HIM AWAY SO THAT HE
DOES NOT BOTHER US ANYMORE.
YOU GUYS HAVE TO WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY SERIES, IT IS SO GOOD.
I HAVE NOT FINISHED IT YET, BUT THE PART OF IT THAT DROVE
ME CRAZY WAS WHEN HE WAS INITIALLY CONVICTED OF A
CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT, OBVIOUSLY THE PEOPLE WHO
WORKED ON THAT CASE WERE EMBARRASSED.
INSTEAD OF HAVING A LITTLE BIT OF HUMILITY, AND BEING A LITTLE
UNDERSTANDING OF THE LIFE THAT YOU DESTROYED, THEY DECIDE, OH
NO, NO, NO, LET'S BURY THIS GUY.
AND THEY GO AFTER HIM EVEN MORE AGGRESSIVELY.
AND I DON'T KNOW, I AM NOT AN EXPERT ON THIS CASE, IT COULD BE
TRUE THAT THIS DOCUMENTARY OMITTED IMPORTANT INFORMATION
THAT DOES PROVE THAT HE COMMITTED THIS CRIME, BUT THE
EVIDENCE THAT THEY PROVIDE IN THIS DOCUMENTARY THAT SHOWS HOW
EASILY HE WAS FRAMED, MAKES ME
THINK THAT HE WAS FRAMED.
IT JUST SHOWS YOU THAT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO
HIRE THE BEST DEFENSE ATTORNEY, YOU ARE SCREWED.
THERE IS A TWO-TIERED JUSTICE SYSTEM.
IN TODAY'S NEWS, ETHAN COUCH, THE GUY WHO KILLED FOUR PEOPLE
AFTER HE GOT UNBELIEVABLY DRUNK FROM BEERS THAT HE STOLE,
USED THE DEFENSE ìI AM SO RICH, I DON'T UNDERSTAND
THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY ACTION,î AND IT WORKED.
THEN HE APPARENTLY DID IT AGAIN, AND HE RUNS AWAY TO
MEXICO, GROSSLY VIOLATING HIS PROBATION, AND WE FIND OUT
TODAY HE MAY ONLY GET HUNDRED AND TWENTY DAYS IN PRISON.
MAYBE.
THEN WE HAVE A GUY WHO HAS NO POWER, IS NOT RICH AND DOES NOT
HAVE AFFLUENZA: A SAD DAY FOR YOU, WE'RE GOING TO CRUSH YOU
AND RE-CRUSH YOU UNTIL YOU ARE
SENT OFF INTO OBLIVION.
WITHOUT COMMENTING ON THE SPECIFICS OF THIS CASE,
I DID NOT TRY THE CASE, I DID NOT SEE THE DOCUMENTARY, BUT I
DO KNOW, AS A GENERAL CONCEPT IN AMERICA, BECAUSE OF THE
STORIES THAT WE DO COVER IN REAL LIFE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN,
DOWN IN TEXAS, DOWN IN LOUISIANA, THESE ARE SPECIFIC CASES
THAT WE COVER, WE GOT THE WRONG GUY, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?
WE'RE NEVER GOING TO ADMIT IT.
WE'RE GOING TO SPIT IN HIS FACE, SAY HE IS A MURDERER, AND
FIND NEW WAYS TO PUT HIM IN JAIL.
THOSE PROSECUTORS ARE NEVER PUT IN JAIL.
INSTEAD THEY ARE REWARDED WITH BIGGER AND BETTER JOBS,
WHICH IS WHY THEY DID IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
SO THEY CAN HAVE A BETTER RECORD, SO THEIR CAREER CAN
BE ADVANCED.
I HAVE ONLY EVER SEEN ONE PROSECUTOR EVER SAY, IN ALL THE
STORIES WE COVERED, OH MY GOD I MADE A MISTAKE, WHAT CAN I
DO TO MAKE IT UP?
THERE ARE DOZENS OF STORIES WHERE PEOPLE MAKE UP EVIDENCE, AND THEY
KNEW THEY WERE MAKING UP EVIDENCE, AND THEY NEVER
ARRESTED THE PROSECUTOR.
NEVER HAD ANY CONSEQUENCES.
CONSEQUENCES ARE FOR POOR PEOPLE, FOR MIDDLE-CLASS PEOPLE.
CONSEQUENCES ARE FOR THE AVERAGE AMERICAN.
YOU WONDER WHY THE COUNTRY IS SICK OF IT, WHY WE CANNOT
STAND IT ANYMORE, WHY WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOME KIND OF
POLITICAL REVOLUTION.
THIS IS WHY.