A Brief Summary Of The Thin Blue Line

The documentary, The Thin Blue Line, directed by Errol Morris, tells a story of an innocent man, Randall Adams, falsely prosecuted of killing a police officer in Dallas, Texas. Even with legitimate evidence, indecisive eyewitnesses’ testimonies, and an unfair investigation showing Adams innocence, the court still found him guilty and sentenced him to death. After researching around to find out more information about this case, it was pretty darn clear, Adams was innocent and that he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Adams was walking along a road in search for gas when a complete stranger by the name of David Harris picked him up to help him out. Harris and Adams has never met before until that actual moment. They decided to

It was clear that a proper investigation was not present during this case. Starting with Harris, the one who was driving the stolen vehicle at the time when the cop was shot to death; at the time, Adams not knowing he was being driven around in a stolen car. Before Harris even got to Dallas, he had already been on a reckless crime spree before meeting Adams. A couple months after the shooting death of the officer, it had been said by many of Harris friends that he was going around town saying he shot and killed a “pig” back in Dallas. He was then arrested and brought into questioning by investigators. After realizing how serious his chargers were, Harris then changed his story, to now, pointing the finger at Adams for being the alleged driver and shooter that night the shooting took place. He just does not make sense that this was never mentioned during the trial, later leaving Adams with a capital murder charge. Harris was the one bragging to friends in his town about killing an officer, he even drove “investigators” to the spot where he disposed the murder weapon, and yet this was not mentioned in

She originally said she saw one man who had a heavy coat on and mid - length hair the night of the shooting. Her seeing one man the night of the shooting turned into her seeing two men that night. She then said she stayed in the patrol car the whole entire time during the shooting, then later said she actually got out the patrol car and began to fire at the car when it speed off that Adams was “alleged” to be driving. After the stolen vehicle was impounded, evidence showed later on that no bullets holes or casings were found in or around the vehicle when searched by “investigators.” How can the court convict a man of capital murder when one of their eye-witnesses, being a police officer, kept of changing her accounts of events that actually took place the night of the