I finally watched this; it's horrible to even try to imagine what life was like in his head.  As the author of the piece that brought his plight to national attention said, every one of the things that is wrong with our criminal justice system happened to Kalief.

What's truly disturbing is how common what happened to him is, that the only reason we know his story is because he was one of the few who refused to just take a plea deal and shut up.

I'd read quite a bit about this case, but I did not know about his awful father trying to go after half the estate.  What a despicable jerk; he wouldn't cough up the bail money when he was the one person in the family who had it, had nothing to do with him in life once he left the family, and then responds to his son's death by trying to usurp Venida Browder's quest to carry on Kalief's fight for justice.  And topped it off by selling the house out from under her/the kids.

I had somehow managed to forget that Venida died, until the final episode started delving into her health problems and then it came back to me and hit me like a brick.  She did so much to help others in his memory, but she also wanted to finish the case for him, to finally get an admission that he was wronged.*  I really appreciate that the series told her story, too; black mothers are just as much victims of our criminal justice system as their sons.

*And the surviving family never did get that; the settlement only provided money.  In looking for updated information on the disposition of the settlement, I learned that the kids - who had begrudgingly aligned with the father to move things along and finally reach a settlement - had to go back to court to try to keep him from getting all/most of the $3.3 million.  The most-recent information I found was from May, at which time they were still engaged in that battle.

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