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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely Riviting!, April 19, 2009
Witch Hunt should be required reading for all Attorney Generals, Prosecutors, Police Officers, Child Protective Services and anyone affiliated with CPS. The events related in this documentary are eerily similar to what the legal community perpetrated on my husband who was falsely accused and wrongly convicted of the same type of crime. He is currently serving a 20 year sentence for a crime he did not conmmit..the same type of crime the men and women featured in Witch Hunt were charged with. I will be purchasing as many copies of Witch Hunt as I can afford to send the Deputy Attorney General who prosecuted my husband with no evidence, the police officer who "lost" evidence, the hospital case worker who did not follow protocol in interviewing the very confused child, the nurse who falsified her report and withheld evidence, the jurors who convicted on emotion and ignorance and the judge who made erroneous rulings in an effort to remain politically correct. I will use Witch Hunt in an effort to educate... in an effort to prevent such miscarriages of justice that befell the persons in this documentary, in an effort to bring attention to the plight of my husband and hundreds of others who are still behind prison walls waiting for someone to listen, to care and to help.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hard Hitting Documentary, April 16, 2009
Sean Penn narrates this hard hitting documentary film about the US justice system. Guaranteed to make your blood boil, Witch Hunt focuses on the human toll wrongful convictions take on everyday people. It truly can happen to anyone.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Less heart, more logic required., June 15, 2009
Like the McMartin Trial, this modern day witch hunt really deserved to be told, While I do not find it shocking, seeing that it was by no means an isolated incident in modern America, but the how the "witchfinders" manage get away with it is disturbing nonetheless.
However, as a documentary, it lacked the precision of, say, an Errol Morris film.
The events/contents beg for a procedural treatment, but instead the film makers focus on the emotional content of the piece, turning it into a feature length version of a 20/20 segment.
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