If you loved watching Wisconsin defense attorney/courtroom bae Dean Strang fighting on behalf of convicted killer Steven Avery in Making a Murderer, get ready to hit the road with America’s favorite bespectacled lawyer—the Road to Justice.After spending decades as a criminal defense lawyer, author, law professor, and Wisconsin’s first Federal Defender, the soft-spoken Strang became an instant standout of Netflix’s true crime docuseries as the cameras captured him fighting to prove Avery’s innocence alongside defense partner Jerome Buting.Now Strang is adding another laurel to his resume: reality TV star.He’ll star in and executive produce Dean Strang: Road to Justice, which will follow in the style of Parts Unknown and attempt to make Strang the Anthony Bourdain of criminal justice. Produced by Covert Media, the docuseries is set to launch with a season consisting of eight one-hour episodes in which Strang guides viewers through landmark legal cases that expose flaws in the criminal justice system—a hot topic he passionately discussed with The Daily Beast in January.“Why are so many teenagers treated as adults in the criminal justice system? Why do we impose sentences of life without the possibility of parole?” he asked then. “That’s just a slow death sentence. Why do we do that, especially in a case where there really are serious questions about guilt, for both of these guys?”“Why do we have a criminal justice system in which north of 90 percent of people charged with a crime anywhere in this country have not enough money to hire a lawyer to defend them, let alone mount the rest of the defense? Why is that? What role does class play in our criminal justice system, both in the prospects of being charged and in the prospects of an outcome?”Frankly it’s about time savvy Hollywood execs capitalized on Strang’s penchant for breaking into impassioned bursts of eloquence and pathos. He and Buting are currently in the midst of a 26-city speaking tour drafting off their Making a Murderer popularity.Meanwhile, Avery’s new lawyer Kathleen Zellner earned her own colorful Newsweek profile teasing her childhood ferocity and love of martial arts—and, more importantly, her promise to uncover Teresa Halbach's “real” killer.“I’d say there’s one, leading the pack by a lot,” she said of numerous suspects her team has in their sights. “But I don’t want to scare him off, I don’t want him to run.”
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