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The Thin Blue Line

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The Thin Blue Line	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 American True Crime documentary film by Errol Morris, depicting the story of Randall Dale Adams, a man convicted and sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. Adams' case was reviewed and he was released from prison approximately a year after the film's release.The film argues that David Harris, who Adams was with that evening, actually committed the murder, while the justice system conspired to convict Adams for the crime due to his outsider status as well as his age (Adams was nearly thirty, while Harris was still a teenager). Unlike other documentaries, the film eschews voice-overs and text, instead relying almost completely on talking head interviews and re-enactions of the murder, in effect letting the evidence speak for itself.The film has been lauded since its release, and is considered by many critics to be among the greatest documentaries ever made.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with the BBC sitcom of the same name, or The Thin Red Line.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_a11f8240	comment	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: On the incompetent side, Teresa Turko really doesn't come off as the brightest cop in the force. She apparently breaks procedure by sitting in the car drinking a malt instead of being in the appropriate position for a traffic stop, which makes her fail to react to the shooting in time, get a license plate number or hit the fleeing car. She wastes manpower by giving the wrong model of the car and gives unreliable testimony after being coached by Internal Affairs (she originally stated the shooter was wearing a jacket with a fur-lined collar, which Harris was wearing; after coaching, she claimed the shooter had long, bushy hair, as Adams had). On the bad side, it becomes increasingly clear that there was little short of a conspiracy against Adams, as Adams was an outsider to the area even though he had no history of violence whatsoever, and, in a case of Revenge Before Reason, the Dallas PD wanted a defendant who could be given the death penalty, which the 16-year-old Harris could not, in spite of his history of violence.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Emily Miller, one of the "witnesses" who put Adams behind bars, admits that she always wanted to be some investigator's wife. She ends up coming off as not only nosy but starved for attention, and also greedy for the reward money that would come with help solving the crime.
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