Rented Paradise Lost II: Revelations today. Allllll sorts of craziness in part two of the documentary series. It's obviously more biased than the first, but still just as shocking. I'm soooo glad Scafidi tipped me off to this story. It's hard for me to fathom that in the 1990s you can still be tried and convicted of murder with such little evidence ( Read more... )

Scafidi finally acquired Paradise Lost from the law library and we watched it this afternoon (well, the majority, we still have to finish it). Talk about a fascinating trial... does a town where the cattle have more teeth than the residents really exist? Is there a place where people are actually convicted of murder because they "wear black, listen ( Read more... )