Can't stop thinking about this case/this victim
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| Can't stop thinking about this case/this victim | Posted on Oct 14 2006 at 12:24am by |
| We Netflicked this documentary last year and I have not stopped thinking about Michael Peterson and his family ever since. For awhile afterwards it was the talk of our social chatter; we must have turned 30 friends/couples onto the doc who would then talk with us extensively about it. I tried to follow Michael Peterson as inmate, thinking there must be a family website, if not blogs about his well-being or any updates about the case, appeals, or where it stands. We were repulsed by the prosecution's case and the ignorance with which the case was tried in court. Never in a million years, in a post-OJ Simpson world did we think this would end in the manner that it did; I was sleepless and morally outraged for days. So does anyone in fact know if there is a way to track the case, or support any actions that the family has taken? Did Mr. Peterson's brother stay well, and proceed to lead the appeals? Does the defense attorney still have the appeals/the case? I have also followed the career of the Durham County DA's that tried the case and though I am a Southern Californian, believe it or not, those two find strange cases to still get their names attached to. This was a fantastic documentary simply on a film-making level sure; but it was really the shock-and-awe of business as usual in the Southern White states (forgive me North Carolina)and their approach to justice. JB in the burbs of Los Angeles | |
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