Warning: for those of you who have not yet finished Making A Murderer on Netflix, the following may contain some spoilers.
Perhaps the most talked about show over Christmas was this ten-part documentary that has been in the making for over a decade. Telling the story of Steven Avery, a man wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and serving eighteen years in jail before being released due to DNA evidence of his innocence, he then went on to sue the State, and within two years Avery was arrested again, this time for murder.
Over the course of the series we are introduced to a number of lawyers, both representing Avery and the State's case against him, and since the series has aired, the internet has descended upon two lawyers in particular: one-time Wisconsin DA Ken Kratz, and lawyer and public defender Len Kachinsky.
Kratz (pictured above) subsequently lost his DA position following a sexting scandal, but he has maintained a position as a defence attorney in Wisconsin, and following the series' airing, people on the internet took to the Kratz Law Film Yelp page and posted a series of profoundly negative reviews.
Some of the reviews include "Ken Kratz is the kind of bad - by which I mean "sinister" - that bad lawyer jokes often make light of" and "Ken Kratz is the epitome of scum. He lacks morals and so much more. I hope that he suffers for the rest of his life because of the way he treated the case of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey".
People have also posted similar reviews on the Kratz Law Firm Facebook page, and Kratz has also recently deleted his own private Twitter account.
Similarly, Len Kachinsky currently has a much smaller online presence than he did up until quite recently, with his bio page on the website to his law-firm Sisson & Kachinsky merely redirecting viewers back to the site's homepage, and the firm's official Facebook page has also been deleted.
On a different note, attorney Dean Strang - who defended Avery through the murder trial - gave an interview with The Cap Times which can be found in full here, but continues to hold out hope that science will improve enough to help prove Avery's innocence:
"I think the realistic chances for Steven are slim but not vanished or nonexistent and I think they lie under the heading of new evidence, which would either be someone coming forward, someone admitting something, someone revealing a secret they’ve been carrying that would point in another direction or an advance in scientific testing so that the blood and the EDTA (discovered in Halbach’s car) can be revisited."
Making A Murderer is currently available on Netflix.
