The Last Defense
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| ABC | Release Date: June 12, 2018 |
Summary:
Executive produced by Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, the seven-part documentary series follows the death row cases of Darlie Routier and Julius Jones.
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Jun 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It offers a powerful argument that people can be convicted as much by emotion and prejudice as by evidence. ... Defense is more straightforward than some of these [true crime] contemporaries. ... What “The Last Defense” does have is a clarity of moral purpose. Whether or not you find its arguments in these specific cases exonerating, it makes a disturbing argument about the potential for error in capital cases.
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Jun 12, 2018
Jun 12, 2018
The Daily Beast
Jun 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Both Routier and Jones’ guilt seems open for debate--as does, in the end, their innocence. In surer hands, that ambiguity might have enlivened the series. Between its calculating tactics and unpersuasive reasoning, however, The Last Defense proves guided by activist intentions that interfere with its objectivity to the point of clouding its judgment.
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Air Date: June 12, 2018
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