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9 Elon L. Rev. 209 (2017)
The Whole Truth: The Implications of America's True Crime Obsession

handle is hein.journals/elonlr9 and id is 213 raw text is: NOTES THE WHOLE TRUTH: THE IMPLICATIONS OF AMERICA'S TRUE CRIME OBSESSION MEGAN BOORSMA INTRODUCTION ........................................ ......209 I. TRUE CRIME: A RISING OBSESSION TURNED MODERN SENSATION ..........................................211 II. THE IMPLICATIONS OF DRAMATIZING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM...............................................213 A. Fact or Fiction: Stories About Justice ........ .......... 215 1. Shaping Perception .................. .......216 2. Enticing Emotion ...............................217 B. The True Crime: Public Misunderstanding ....... .....219 1. Wrongful Convictions .................. .....219 2. Criminal Law, Procedure, and Punishment...................220 CONCLUSION ......................................................224 INTRODUCTION If you find yourself rooting for Adnan Syed' or Steven Avery,2 yOU may also find yourself questioning the criminal justice system as a J.D., Elon University School of Law '16; B.A. Political Science, North Carolina State University '13. My sincere thanks to Eric Maddox for his support and encouragement of my personal true crime obsession. 1 See Serial (Oct. 3, 2014), https://serialpodcast.org/season-one. 2 See Netflix, Making a Murderer, NETFLIX (2015), https://www.netflix.com/search/maki ng%20a%20mur?jbv=80000770&jbp=0&jbr-0. (209)

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