Making a Murderer (TV Series) Lack of Humility (2015) User Reviews

Sent a simple boy away for life... ahhhh justice

[loganp-29630 · 9/10 · 19 November 2020]

Title says it all. What justice is there in a country that sends its citizens with such obviously lacking mental faculties to prison for life? What justice is there when we send people to prison for life when they committed the crime when they were only 16 years old? Morally unconscionable to try him as an adult. Morally unconscionable to send him to prison until he dies.

Now he, as someone suffering mental disabilities, is at even greater risk of being sexually assaulted in prison than the general prison population. Yes an eye for an eye, we are so blindly old testament in this country it makes me sick. Two words: jury nullification.

The man who likely did it went away. Although, I didn't really find the prosecutor proved Avery's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But it was 2005, the thought of such gross police and prosecutorial misconduct was hard to believe. Now I believe, we as a country have grown up. 2005 was still right in the middle of the tough on crime era (we still are), can we really blame the jury? Yes, we can. How could you have ever thought (and especially as an adult) that trying and convicting mentally incompetent teens as adults is okay?

Lack of Humility

[Michael_Elliott · 14 January 2016]

Making a Murderer: Lack of Humility (2015)

The ninth and next to last episode has Steven learning his fate but we've still got Brendan going to trial to try and prove his innocence. Once again the questionable confessions are brought into play as well as the fact that there's no DNA connecting him to the crime.

This episode is actually one of the best because the most head-scratching stuff comes from Brendan since he did confess to the crime, change his story several times and of course the lack of DNA. I must admit that I was rather dumb-founded by the fact that the lack of DNA wasn't brought up more during the trial or perhaps it was and the footage just wasn't shown here. Even the mother claims that the detective is lying about her being asked to sit in on the questioning yet she never takes the stand to say this to the jury.

Episode: A

Brendan's Trial Is Focused On

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 5 January 2016]

I apologize to any reader because at times things overlap in this series and so I have to try to parse out events. The bulk of this episode has to do with Bendan's trial. I feel that his representation is nowhere near as good as Steven's. Unless there is something I don't know about, this kid got jobbed like crazy. From that two bit public defender who apparently had connections to the prosecution, to O'keefe who bullied him into making drawings of the rape and murder, giving him no option but to sign the document. Once again, no representation. I understand at times an investigator can lie, but here we are dealing with a child of limited mental capacity. The episode ends with the result of the trial.