{"id":121685,"date":"2024-11-03T18:47:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T11:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121685"},"modified":"2024-11-03T18:47:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T11:47:49","slug":"true-crime-entertainment-means-real-world-impact-on-criminal-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121685","title":{"rendered":"True crime entertainment means real-world impact on criminal cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 In 1989, Americans were riveted by the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/menendez-brothers-erik-lyle-murder-netflix-free-5fe6802482903f32b0b88f2228f20a9b\">shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez<\/a><\/span> in their Beverly Hills mansion by their own children. Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison and lost all subsequent appeals. But today, more than three decades later, they unexpectedly have a chance of getting out. <\/p>\n<p>Not because of the workings of the legal system. Because of entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>After two recent documentaries and a scripted drama on the pair brought new attention to the 35-year-old case, the Los Angeles <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-menendez-brothers-erik-lyle-menendez-bafe4ca46b23751cfa7c4745e88f4edb\">district attorney has recommended<\/a><\/span> they be resentenced.<\/p>\n<p>The popularity and proliferation of true crime entertainment like Netflix\u2019s docudrama <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/national-7c12b6b51da7494f875a7bf7d7630432\">\u201cMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story\u201d<\/a><\/span> is effecting real life changes for their subjects and in society more broadly. At their best, true crime podcasts, streaming series and social media content can help expose injustices and right wrongs. <\/p>\n<p>But because many of these products prioritize entertainment and profit, they also can have serious negative consequences. <\/p>\n<h2>It may help the Menendez brothers<\/h2>\n<p>The use of true crime stories to sell a product has a long history in America, from the tabloid \u201cpenny press\u201d papers of the mid-1800s to television movies like 1984\u2019s \u201cThe Burning Bed.\u201d These days it\u2019s podcasts, bingeable Netflix series and even true crime TikToks. The fascination with the genre may be considered morbid by some, but it can be partially explained by the human desire to make sense of the world through stories. <\/p>\n<p>In the case of the Menendez brothers, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/national-celebrity-general-news-dbe3118a457f4abcba69f1e52e34d59e\">Lyle<\/a><\/span>, who was then 21, and Erik, then 18, have said they feared their parents were about to kill them to prevent the disclosure of the father\u2019s long-term sexual molestation of Erik. But at their trial, many of the sex abuse allegations were not allowed to be presented to the jury, and prosecutors contended they committed murder simply to get at their parents\u2019 money. <\/p>\n<p>For years, that\u2019s the story that many people who watched the saga from a distance accepted and talked about.<\/p>\n<p>The new dramas delve into the brothers\u2019 childhood, helping the public better understand the context of the crime and thus see the world as a less frightening place, says Adam Banner, a criminal defense attorney who writes a column on pop culture and the law for the American Bar Association\u2019s ABA Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only does that make us feel better intrinsically,\u201d Banner says, \u201cbut it also objectively gives us the ability to think, \u2018Well, now I can take this case and put it in a different bucket than another situation where I have no explanation and the only thing I can say is, \u2018This child just must be evil.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The rise of the antihero is at play<\/h2>\n<p>Much true crime of the past takes particularly shocking crimes and explores them in depth, generally with the assumption that those convicted of the crime were actually guilty and deserved to be punished. <\/p>\n<p>The success of the podcast \u201c <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-53e0600867d94a23838bfdd6274c9add\">Serial<\/a><\/span>,\u201d which cast doubt on the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/adnan-syed-serial-court-ruling-8214ec142906aa3f2662d6be51738407\">murder conviction of Adnan Syed<\/a><\/span>, has given birth to a newer genre that often assumes (and intends to prove) the opposite. The protagonists are innocent, or \u2014 as in the case of the Menendez brothers \u2014 guilty but sympathetic, and thus not deserving of their harsh sentences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an old tradition of journalists picking apart criminal cases and showing that people are potentially innocent,\u201d says Maurice Chammah, a staff writer at The Marshall Project and author of \u201cLet the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think that the curve kind of goes up exponentially in the wake of \u2018Serial,\u2019 which was 2014 and obviously changed the entire landscape economically and culturally of podcasts,\u201d Chammah says. \u201cAnd then you have \u2018Making a Murderer\u2019 come along a few years later and become a kind of behemoth example of that in docuseries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roughly during the same time period, the innocence movement gained traction along with the Black Lives Matter movement and greater attention on police custody deaths. And in popular culture, both fiction and nonfiction, the trend is to mine a villainous character\u2019s backstory. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these superheroes, supervillains, the movie \u2018Joker\u2019 \u2014 you\u2019re just inundated with this idea that people\u2019s bad behavior is shaped by trauma when they were younger,\u201d Chammah said. <\/p>\n<p>Banner often represents some of the least sympathetic defendants imaginable, including those accused of child sexual abuse. He says the effects of these cultural trends are real. Juries today are more likely to give his clients the benefit of the doubt and are more skeptical of police and prosecutors. But he also worries about the intense focus in current true crime on cases where things went wrong, which he says are the outliers.<\/p>\n<p>While the puzzle aspect of \u201cDid they get it right?\u201d might feed our curiosity, he says, we run the risk of sowing distrust in the entire criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to take away the positive ramifications that putting that spotlight on a case can bring. But you also don\u2019t want to give off the impression that this is how our justice system works. That if we can get enough cameras and microphones on a case, then that\u2019s how we\u2019re going to save somebody off of death row or that\u2019s how we\u2019re going to get a life sentence overturned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adds Chammah: \u201cIf you open up sentencing decisions and second looks and criminal justice policy to pop culture \u2014 in the sense of who gets a podcast made about them, who gets Kim Kardashian talking about them \u2014 the risk of extreme arbitrariness is really great. &#8230; It feels like it\u2019s only a matter of time before the wealthy family of some defendant basically funds a podcast that tries to make a viral case for their innocence.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The audience is a factor, too<\/h2>\n<p>Whitney Phillips, who teaches a class on true crime and media ethics at the University of Oregon, says the popularity of the genre on social media adds another layer of complications, often encouraging active participation of viewer and listeners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause these are not trained detectives or people who have any actual subject area expertise in forensics or even criminal law, then there\u2019s this really common outcome of the wrong people being implicated or floated as suspects,\u201d she says. \u201cAlso, the victims\u2019 families now are part of the discourse. They might be accused of this, that, or the other, or at the very least, you have your loved one\u2019s murder, violent death, being entertainment for millions of strangers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This sensibility has been both chronicled and lampooned in the streaming comedy-drama series <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/steve-martin-los-angeles-emmy-awards-meryl-streep-george-lucas-1f6ae748cfda44bc8b9ab5c15317fafe\">\u201cOnly Murders in the Building,\u201d<\/a><\/span> which follows three unlikely collaborators who live in a New York apartment building where a murder has taken place. The trio decide to make a true crime podcast while simultaneously trying to solve the case. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing about true crime is fundamentally unethical, Phillips says. \u201cIt\u2019s that the social media system \u2014 the attention economy \u2014 is not calibrated for ethics. It\u2019s calibrated for views, it\u2019s calibrated for engagement and it\u2019s calibrated for sensationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many influencers are now vying for the \u201cmurder audience,\u201d Phillips says, with social media and more traditional media feeding off each other. True crime is now creeping into lifestyle content and even makeup tutorials. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was sort of inevitable that you would see the collision of these two things and having these influencers literally just put on a face of makeup and then tell a very kind of \u2014 it\u2019s very informal, it\u2019s very dishy, it\u2019s often not particularly well researched,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is not investigative journalism.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/true-crime-entertainment-podcasts-documentary-66790454ecf2edebbffd4250d681da2a\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. 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