'Making a Murderer' Dean Strang: Defense Attorney Warns Against Becoming 'Armchair Sleuths'
Defense attorney Dean Strang, who is featured throughout Netflix's Making a Murderer, is urging people to look at the bigger picture.
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Strang, who was one of defense attorneys attempting to prove Steven Avery was innocent in the 2005 murder of photographer Teresa Halbach, spoke at the Minnesota Capitol on Wednesday about what viewers should take from Making a Murderer.
He cautioned that viewers should not become "lost playing second-string jurors and after-the-fact armchair sleuths," according to the Star Tribune.
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Strang spoke on how the docuseries helps illuminate the realities of the justice system.
"The value to me of the documentary or any book about the case ought to be asking bigger questions about the system and the reality of the outcomes we achieve in our criminal justice system," he said.
Making a Murderer also highlights the major differences between a defendant having free reign to pick (and buy) their defense team as opposed to an appointed public defender team.
"It says a lot, and most of what it says isn't very good," Strang said, on this issue. However, it's tough to increase funding for public defenders since it is "widely viewed as just using tax dollars to make lawyers rich and give bad guys lawyers. That's a tough sell for elected officials."
Avery and nephew Brendan Dassey remain in prison to this day--but that hasn't stopped many from petitioning for their freedom.
Making a Murderer is available to stream in full on Netflix.
