Streaming Sways Clemency Decisions

True‑crime dramatizations can recast defendants as trauma victims and generate political pressure that reaches governors and parole boards. Netflix’s Monsters reframed the Menendez brothers’ motives, coinciding with California Governor Gavin Newsom considering clemency. — If narrative markets can move legal outcomes, justice risks becoming a competition in storytelling rather than evidence, demanding new guardrails between media and executive clemency.