By: Teddy Grant A federal judge said Monday that former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein could sue Netflix over her portrayal in the miniseries about the Exonerated Five in When They See Us. District Judge Kevin Castel said that certain scenes from the show could make viewers believe it was “based in fact.” “These scenes depict Fairstein as orchestrating acts of misconduct, including the withholding of evidence, the existence of ‘tapes’ showing that she ‘coerced’ confessions from the Five, an instruction not to use ‘kid gloves’ when questioning suspects, and directing a racially discriminatory police roundup of young men in Harlem,” Castel wrote. Fairstein accused director Ava Duvernay […]
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