England and Wales are lagging far behind Mississippi and Louisiana when it comes to a fair and open criminal justice system. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Officer Bimblebury, CC BY-SA 4.0. Some rights reserved.
Dean Strang, the lawyer whose defence of Steven Avery was documented in the Netflix series Making a Murderer, has spoken of a “tragic lack of humility” within the United States’ criminal justice system. Speaking to the Justice Gap, he complained about “an unwarranted certitude on the part of police officers, and prosecutors and defence lawyers and judges and jurors that they’re getting it right.”
