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July 19, 2006

The Staircase by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

The Staircase is a fascinating and well-done doc by the filmmaker who also made the Academy Award-winning Murder on a Sunday Morning.

This six hour, 8 part documentary originally aired on the Sundance Channel but I had the pleasure of compulsively watching it in two sittings thanks to Netflix. The filmmaker takes you behind the scenes of the defense team of Michael Peterson who is accused of murdering his wife. If you like true crime mysteries and our legal process you will love this. As Peterson's life with all its complexities and dark sides came to the surface, I wasn't any closer to deeming him guilty or innocent.

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I wasn't able to decide on his guilt either, but it never seemed that the prosecutor's defense was strong enough to convict him. The fact that his neighbor in Germany (who looked disturbingly like his wife) died from falling down the stairs twenty years earlier was hard to ignore, but all the evidence seemed overly circumstantial.

I couldn't get that assistant DAs voice out of my head for days, "This is HARD CORE pornography!" and "They were doing things ev-ery which way!"

It was an interesting insight to how prosecutors will use character to try a defendant, and leverage flaws in character to sway a jury, regardless of its relevance to the case.

I did giggle a little every time they said blow poke...

Posted by: mark at July 19, 2006 12:53 PM
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