OJ Trial for the Common P{eople

    I watch all the award shows, but realize that lately I'm unfamiliar with the movies, because I very seldom go to the theater, and even the television shows, because most of them are on channels we don't get.
     So when I was given the opportunity to share my son's Netflix, I decided to watch  " Making A Murderer."  I started at the beginning and am now up to Episode 9.  It's not usually the genre I prefer, but for some reason, it's must-watch TV.  The courtroom sequences and the interactions between the defense and the prosecution  definitely  parallel those of the OJ trial.  The crimes dealt with are at least as brutal and arguably even more depraved than OJ's.
  However, there is one major difference and that is in the cast of characters, real life as they may be.  Within the OJ scenario, all the people were sleek, well-groomed, fashionably dressed, well-spoken,  beautiful.  In "Murderer" the people are real all right, and not to belittle our neighborhood, remarkably similar in appearance and manner to the folks sitting at the stools of  one of the local bars.
    The main issue in trying to assert the accused Steve Avery's  innocence, in the face of what looks like undeniable guilt, lies in the fact that he may have been framed---by the law enforcement agency no less.  Shades of the glove that didn't fit.  In this case, it's a car key. Even more damning is that Stevie had recently been released from prison after having served 18 years for a crime that he didn't commit, and that the police had not only illegally mishandled protocol and evidence but had falsified items and records as well.
    The people are mostly unattractive, as most of us are minus the trappings that money and fame can provide.  They  are the downtrodden folks, of the type championed by the late Eugene V. Debs, but nonetheless deserving of the same pursuit of justice as the more fortunate. I have wavered in my opinion of his guilt throughout the episodes.  First I thought he was guilty, then not, then probably so, probably not, maybe not, most likely guilty. I'm waiting until the final episode to try to make up my mind.  But now I read that, because of public attention,  there may be another entire series.  If he's guilty, he deserves to burn in hell for eternity, if not, he's still no hero.  I think we will never know for certain.