Summary Of The Thin Blue Line

In the 1988 American documentary film, “The Thin Blue Line, by Errol Morris, an American movie director and author, he shows the Randall Dale Adams case which ended Randall Dale Adams was convicted to a death sentence for murdering a police officer and David Ray Harris was able to become free. While driving home, Randall’s car runs out of fuel agrees to hitchhike with David Harris to Dallas. While driving, Harris and Randall become stopped by a Dallas police car that was on the graveyard watch and the car was stolen, therefore the driver takes out his revolver and begins to shoot the incoming officer who was by the window of his car. The police officer, Robert W. Wood, was working the graveyard watch with his partner, one of the first female

Emily love to watch detective movies ever since she was a child because she wants to determine who the criminal is before the criminal is even known or before the police could figure out who did the crime before the police knew. Her quote is that “When I was a child, I used to all the detective shows on TV. When I was a child they used to show these movies with Boston Blackie. He always had a woman with him and I wanted to be a wife the detective or be a detective, therefore I always wanted to watch detective stories. I am always looking because you never know what might come up or I how I can help. I love to help in situations, just like that, I truly do. You know it is always happening to me, where I go to, you know. I’m always trying to look out for times, for example, when theirs a killing or anything, you know, around my house, where ever. And I would always look or getting involved, you know, to see who did it or what’s going on. I listen to people and I’m always to trying to decide to who did what or killed who before the police do, to see if I could beat them.” This confirmation bias is suggesting that she believes that what they show in the movie is the same as what is going on in real

In Texas, the death penalty applies for people who reach the age of adulthood, which Edith James states in her quote even though the of the evidence was pointing toward David Ray Harris. She states that,” It was strange that there was a robbery committed with that same pistol, you know. And here you have David Harris’s pistol, David Harris’s automobile that picked up Randall Adams, didn’t he think it was a little odd, that all of the utensils is used to commit murder a police officer and that they were all in his possession. David Harris was able to become free since the people in Texas don’t want to ruin a young man’s life in the face of crime.” This quote explains the confirmation bias that since David Ray Harris is a young man who isn’t an adult yet, according to Texas law, he couldn’t have committed a murder and since Randall Adams is an adult, he has responsibility and should become punished because it is his responsibility as an adult to illegally do something or legally do something else with