Epstein: Filthy Rich Quicktake
Rating ***** I’ve followed a lot of criminal cases where things break down. Usually, it’s at the detriment of an innocent defendant. Sometimes, as in this case, it is the guilty who benefit from incompetence. In almost every case the injustice is only corrected after the efforts of one or more skillful, persistant attorneys. That’s […]
Review of The Innocent Files
This Netflix documentary series takes an in-depth look at nine different wrongful convictions. The common theme in all of these wrongful convictions is Prosecutorial misconduct and eyewitness misidentifications. If you are a juror and someone you deem as credible gets on the stand and points at a defendant and says with 100% certainty that he […]
Review of How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Rating ***** This four-part Netflix docuseries tells the story of two crime lab technicians who, for different reasons, indirectly caused the dismissal of some 35,000 drug-related criminal cases in Massachusets. Some of the other topics covered include prosecutorial misconduct, sentencing disparity, and judicial incompetence. The two lab technicians at the center of this story are […]
Review of Tiger King
Review of Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and MadnessRating ***** Joe Exotic wanted to be famous. The self-absorbed owner of the private zoo Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park had grandiose dreams. One day the whole world would know his name. He ran for president. After getting nowhere in that effort, he ran for Governor of Oklahoma. […]
Review of the Netflix Docuseries The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez
Rating ***** An eight-year-old boy dies from suspicious circumstances. Who is responsible? The mother and her boyfriend? Social workers, who failed to do the proper follow-ups? Police officers, who did a cursory investigation when alerted to possible child abuse? Those are some of the questions dealt with in this excellent six-episode docuseries. As you come […]
Review of the Netflix Docuseries The Pharmacist
Review of The Pharmacist Directed by Julia Willoughby Nason and Jenner Furst Rating ***** Ever since Making a Murderer started streaming on Netflix back in 2015, I’ve been a fan of docuseries. If you go to the sitemap page on this site and choose docuseries under categories, you’ll find an extensive list of excellent docuseries […]