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The System with Joe Berlinger
In this groundbreaking new series airing on Al Jazeera America, The System with Joe Berlinger, award-winning documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger explores the state of our justice system. Berlinger personally guides us through a suspenseful journey as he doggedly searches for the truth where others have not found it or didn't care to look. Every episode explores one of the most pressing issues of the criminal justice system - flawed forensics, faulty eyewitness testimony, juvenile justice, prosecutorial misconduct, mandatory sentencing, among others - through the lens of controversial and dramatic cases that both distill the issues and speak to their larger implications for the system and society itself.
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Episode 1
False Confessions
Sun, May 18, 2014
Las Vegas detectives find a homeless man stabbed to death and a teenage girl confesses to the salacious crime. In NY, a high school girl is brutally raped and murdered and one of her classmates confesses. But what if both suspects are innocent? Who would confess to a crime that they didn't commit? In this episode we'll look at two cases where convictions were reached almost entirely on the suspect's confession and explore whether the system got it right.
Awards
- 2015 - Silver Telly - Documentary - winner
- 2015 - Bronze Telly - TV Programs/Segments - winner
- 2015 - Silver Telly - TV Programs, Segments, or Promotional Pieces - Documentary - winner
- 2015 - Bronze Telly - TV Programs, Segments, or Promotional Pieces - Information - winner
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