Lawyer: – The events in “Making a Murderer” can also happen in Norway – NRK

This article contains revelations about the plot of “Making a Murderer.”

SENTENCED: Steven Avery sat 18 years wrongly convicted of rape in prison before being acquitted.

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For more than two weeks ago dropped pouring service Netflix crime documentary “Making a Murderer.” For ten episodes takes the filmmakers at the story of the American Steven Avery, who was 18 years wrongly convicted of rape, and shortly after the acquittal was arrested and accused of murder.

Avery is now in prison sentenced to life for murder, but during the ten episodes reveal the documentary weaknesses in American jurisprudence at both trials.

Both social media and traditional media series has created a fierce dedication, and over 250,000 people have signed a petition online to acquit Avery for murder.

– It’s the only thing that can help. It is the people who must make up and say that we did not want it that way, says lawyer Arne Seland NRK.

– Could happen in Norway

Avery was together with his nephew sentenced for the murder of photographer Theresa Halbach in 2007, documentary series goes including deep into the defender’s arguments on police evidence and interrogation techniques.

ADVOKAT: Arne Seland believes weaknesses in the judiciary as’ Making a Murderer “illuminates, also can happen in Norway, referring to two well-known criminal cases.

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Attorney Seland even working as a defense counsel in a number of criminal cases and believes the shortcomings of the legal system that series also highlights can happen in Norway.

– I mean absolutely the same thing could happen in Norway. Monika case is an example of that, Birgitte Teng case is an example of that, and there are certainly other examples. We are no better in Norway than the rest of the world. We must stop and think, he says.

– Monika affair was not so different. Where did you murderer go free, and concluded that Monika committed suicide. It could not be more cruel than that, says Seland.

Engagement

In addition to the petition campaign with over 250,000 signatures, there is also a petition for pardon Steven Avery on the home page The White House.

It has writing over 64,000 signatures, but need 100 000 within January 19 to trigger a response from the US authorities.

“Making a Murderer” follows in sports to podcasts “Serial” and “Unresolved” and the HBO series “The Jinx” which all deals with real criminal cases, so-called “true crime “.

Anja Rålm editor of Crime blog and has a lot of” true crime “to do. She says this about why documentary series involved.

– It touches so strong and you can not believe what you see. You just want to see more. It would not have been possible.