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HornetKick:

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--- Quote from: HornetKick on April 15, 2020, 11:20:34 PM ---I started watching The Innocence Files. OMFG! The crooks in the judicial system need to be euthanized.

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Where is this one streaming? Interested to watch!

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Finally watching HornetKick. Wow so sad... how in the hell does this dr think he is right still when they proved without a doubt none of those were bite Mark's. This infuriates me!

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IKR?? He is totally a quack! It's his ego that gets in the way, which sounds so familiar just from being on this forum. His bite mark findings were the scariest situation and the biggest example of how an Expert can be wrong. We talked about this while I was in school and anytime I hear someone call themselves an expert, I run the other way. Just because I know it will be hard to convince that person they are wrong.

What episode are you on? I'm watching #6 about Witnesses and that too is just as messed up. The entire scientific analysis of how things are done is crazy and not without fault. I've read/seen about a lot of them and I've always felt that more than only one witness should be used to lock someone up for decades, especially if the child is a witness. I can't even fathom the number of years some of these men were locked up.

What is also sad is that the Innocence Project only takes on about 1 percent each year because there are so many innocent people locked up in prison. Every state should have this type of taskforce paid through the use of federal money. What is also the biggest travesty is that knowing how flawed and broken the system is, why it still takes so long to rectify the wrongs of the prosecutors, who can never be on trial themselves for what they do to people.

HornetKick:

--- Quote from: th3awakened1 on April 18, 2020, 09:02:09 PM ---I am on #7 now. I am literally looking into the innocence project for my state to volunteer. I have some skills that I think could be of value since I have done law cases in the past. I have many friends in the field but these cases just infuriate me and some of my LE friends too.

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That is friggin' amazing. I applaud you for doing something like this. It's truly awesome!! ;) :D ;D 8)

HornetKick:
Yes, it would typically be a long process because of what is involved, the hours of volunteering, the hours for research, speaking to those involved again after so many years, etc. I just watched episode 8 and it talks about legal immunity for prosecutors and imo this one thing is the main thing that should be adjusted for all states. Anything that deals with the government and the legal system as it is, is a long process, but no one is held accountable when they do things wrong on purpose. It creates a no-one-can-touch-me mentality since they know they can never get in trouble.

I thought the episodes would get better by getting tamer, but they appear to get worse. It makes you think how many were on death row, who have been killed, that were actually innocent. I wonder if there is going to be another season. Sometimes I do have to take breaks just because the material is so heavy and it makes you very angry that here we are in 2020 and the system still is whacked. I do like how the perspectives are all explained from the attorneys', to the jurors, to the defendants, to the families, etc. It's interesting to find that the confessionals are well rounded.

HornetKick:
Is anyone watching Belgravia, the new Downton Abby-like show?

I'll probaby start watching You seaon 1 this week.

HornetKick:
I am watching that too along with looking into Jonestown about Jim Jones. What an extreme effing nut. He would have been a good thesis or the entire cult vibe would have been a good topic too. I can't even recall how I got into it, but I searched to see what books were available about this and there are a lot. Two that were mentioned from some ex-members were The Road to Jonestown and Seductive Poison.

I've already watched one and now I'm watching another longer version documentary about him (on youtube). His two living sons: one an adopted African American and one biological caucasian son help with describing what was actually going down during this time. Both were away when everything started although Jim tried to get them to come back. The adopted son is even his namesake Jim Jones, Jr. The biological son believes his mother was involved with him being away, ultimately saving his life, but who's to say? I looked it up. The saying "drinking the kool-aid" originated from the events of the murder massacre.

Just as an aside because I've watched other cult-related shit, but usually when a man claims he is the chosen one and only he can hear the directives from God, then he decides to fuck anything that he wants because he's chosen, it's not going to go down well at all. To know that cults typically follow this pattern, I wonder why no one sees the signs until it's too late and why people continue to follow the nut. WTF people! Do people in general not know how to learn from other people's examples?

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