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Both men are currently awaiting a retrial, but Avery's nephew Brendan - who was convicted alongside his uncle of a gruesome murder - was recently released from prison when a judge decided that his confession was coerced.
He wasn't the only high-profile victim of the American judicial system to be released recently; the West Memphis 3 were finally freed after decades in jail.
The Innocence Project - a foundation dedicated to freeing wrongfully convicted prisoners - has had a reported surge in donations since public interest in their work has increased.
The desire to win trumps any idea surrounding justice. If you have money (in the case of The Jinx's Robert Durst) then you can buy your freedom. If you can't afford your own solicitor, you enter a lottery for a public defender who is more than likely not going to be any good.
There are unequal incarceration rates depending on your ethnicity and then there's the prospect of living in jail which sounds, at best, hellish.
Like Serial's Adnan, The Night Of's Naz is an American citizen of Muslim faith thrown into jail with the presumption of guilt for a crime that's completely out of character.
This racial profiling isn't a new phenomenon.
Pre-Good Friday agreement, the Irish were the nationality to be suspicious of abroad. Post 9/11, this shifted to those of Muslim descent.
On 5 October, 1974, bombs planted by the IRA in two pubs in Guildford killed 4 and injured more than 50 people. Belfast-native Gerry Conlon and his friends were arrested for the crime.
False confessions were coerced after days of torture by the metropolitan police. The Guildford Four were sent to jail, but after years of appeals they were finally freed. These harrowing events are chronicled in the excellent film In The Name Of The Father starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
The tale of Conlon's mistreatment echoes to this day and is sadly repeated the world over, from Russia to Guantánamo Bay. It serves as a sobering reminder of the adage by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr; injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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