b o, the jinx, a aired, or we seen cases steven avery, who had his case re examined, though not overturned after a netflix or made a series about his a case called making a murderer. um, so we're seeing a lot of these and this new wave of true crime podcast to crime, documentary series having a real world impact on the justice system of a lot of cases. this could be cases of overturning miscarriage, of justice. and that's obviously a good thing, but i'm a bit, i'm uncomfortable with this trend. if i'm honest, because i, i know any good director or any good editor can make anyone look guilty or look innocent based on what they include or what they leave out of a crime, a true crime show. and i really don't want to outsource the criminal justice system to netflix producers and so that we're not no longer having trial by jury, but trial by ratings. i think that would be a dangerous trend and is a direction that i think a lot of cases are. we're going down this case. it was evidence or left out in a true life proceeding. but great that, that is focused, managed to have such a success. he w sup

we saw steven avery, whose conviction was questioned in a netflix, a documentary crime series, making a murderer. his conviction wasn't overturned, but it was a re addressed and brought up again and from the courts. and so i think we're seeing a lot more of these, a cases where the, the, these true crime shows either podcast or t. v series, a question, the workings of the justice system, and they are having real world real effects in the courts. and it often seems like it's a correcting miscarriages of justice. and that obviously is a good thing of, but i worry a little bit that if this trend continues, will start having more sort of trial by ratings. where popular shows or figures that are popular on certain true crime series will be assessed differently than the judicial system would normally do so on. and anyone who knows anything about television production knows you have a good editor and you have a good, a director. you can make anyone look innocent or look guilty based on what leave in and, and what you don't show in, in one of these programs. so i'm a little bit worried about

. >> steven avery spent 18 years in prison for something he didn't do. >> 18 year. >> 18 years. >> dnadicating that he had not committed the crime. >> law enforcement officers realized that they had screwed up big time. >> that's from that netflix show "making a murderer" captivated the nation and this era has seen criminal justice issues really reach a national prominence if not sometimes an obsession over progressive prosecutors to, of course, this whole trump era test of what the powerful can get away with. donald trump had more aides indicted than any first time president ever and battling his own legal issues but that's a story for another day. tonight we turn to how this system impacts basically everybody else if you're not a political elite or rich. your experience with the justice system can be rough, final and seemingly unappealable especially if you are poor or a minority. there are efforts outside the system to try to change this. take the now pretty famous innocence project which applies facts and science to try to exonerate people punished for crimes they never committed i