Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
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Allan Avery, the father of Making a Murderer's Steven Avery, has died at the age of 89 - and he continued to be son's 'strongest supporter' right up until the end
2 November 2026
The defense in the Russell Brand trial has said the Channel 4 documentary and Times report "poisoned the well of justice."
2 November 2026
The rules says the first account in a sexual assault investigation must be given to the police. Channel 4 and The Times didn’t agree, in this particular case.
1 November 2026
Russell Brand’s trial continues. Here’s everything we know so far.
30 October 2026
A screening of The Window on Death Row, about Joaquín José Martínez, the first Spaniard exonerated from U.S. death row, with a Q&A, in Daytona Beach on 21 November.
28 October 2026
Eileen Franklin's best friend’s murder went cold. A recovered childhood memory put her father in prison — no physical evidence. Then the memory went on trial.
27 October 2026
A documentary about Joaquin Jose Martinez, the first Spaniard exonerated from death row in the United States after his former wife's allegation sent him there, will be screened at the Utah Film Center.
9 October 2026
Nearly 21 years after Teresa Halbach's killing, Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey have applied to Wisconsin's Commutation Advisory Board, and a judge has called commutation for Avery "entirely inappropriate."
30 September 2026
An expert on media law explains how newspapers avoid defamation when investigating a story.
20 September 2023
Steven Avery from "Making A Murderer" on Netflix (Netflix)
18 August 2022
A review of a book arguing that people will lie about sexual abuse, and that the motive is generally money.
21 May 2022
Peter Bradshaw on Kevin Spacey and the rise of 'uncancel culture' for famous men never criminally convicted.
25 May 2021
Police trawling and other tactics
The Unbelievable Story of Carl Beech shows the readiness of police to believe the unbelievable in child sex abuse cases.
12 September 2020
Nick Cave criticises cancel culture as 'bad religion run amuck' with an asphyxiating effect on society's creative soul.
12 August 2020
The Innocence Files shows police breaking rules, junk forensic science and prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence.
26 July 2020
Greg Kelley, the subject of Outcry, which shows a surprising, thorny, hyper-local yet deeply concerning saga. Photograph: Jim Redman/Courtesy of Showtime.
7 July 2020
Steven Avery's and Brendan Dassey's cases have stayed in the news since season 1. Zellner gives new reason to watch
19 October 2018
In the 50s, Arthur Miller used 17th-century Salem to comment on the ‘red scare’. His drama is chillingly pertinent in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency
15 February 2017