Andrew Jarecki

that fairness should be the method by which you judge how a district attorney performs.

It's like, well, we decided to prosecute a certain number of cases.

Some of those cases weren't worth prosecuting.

Some of those cases were going to turn into wrongful convictions.

We're not just going to prosecute everything, which is why this whole thing about like Brady material, where you're supposed to give the other side anything that comes out in the investigation that might be used to prove their innocence.

If there's something that goes against the criminal case,

you have to provide it to the lawyer on the other side.

But regularly, prosecutors just bury this information.

You have some witness that said, I was with that person at the time, and that witness's testimony disappears.

Or you have something that shows that the

gun that they thought was used to commit the crime wasn't the one that was used to commit the crime.

So that's the thing, the teaming, the decision that you have to be part of one side or another.

I really think that that part of your special where you're sort of like putting me in the position of somebody who's having to make a decision about what team I'm on and where I lose the thread, that's like...

That's a very significant thing that you did there, you know, because it was like a way of bringing to the average citizen that feeling that they're all having right now.

You know, what else you get?

I mean, I'm always curious about...

I'm always asking myself what I should be, you know, what I should be spending my time on.

And I get involved in a film and it kind of grabs you and it could hold you.

How do you decide?

I feel like it decides.