Comment on The Indictment – biased movie – McMartin Preschool Trial by jmwasthere

jmwasthere — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:51:09 +0000

In the courtroom, Abby and Myra Mann made no secret of their friendship with the defendants. In fact, the day the verdicts were read, Mr Mann flipped the parents waiting at the crosswalk in front of the courthouse, the finger from the passenger seat of his white limousine. Myra was driving.
The Buckeys were paid for their stories (reportedly $75,000 each) , as is usually routine in “true life” type movies. None of the parents were consulted about their side of the story. Therefore the movie was entirely based on the defendants’ and defense attorneys version. The prosecutor, Glen Stevens, who was fired (for lying to the DA about talking to the media) during the trial was interviewed. Transcripts of that interview were passed around while the movie was being written. Mr. Stevens had been casting himself as a hero in his own version of a movie or book he was writing in a diary. Too bad for him, Mr. Mann left him out of the script.
I knew Judy Johnson and the way they portrayed her as a delusional and somehow sexually psychotic woman is pure fiction. Dr Summit, MD, on staff at Harbor UCLA where Johnson was taken when she was taken after she was found sick in bed after a week, stated that she was never diagnosed with any mental disease. Not schizophrenic. The first place I saw that was in Debbie Nathan’s writings. Nathan never met with nor spoke with Ms Johnson.

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