7 terrifying things ‘Making A Murderer’ illustrates about American justice Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has studied this phenomenon in depth, told HuffPost that police and prosecutors have been known to lock on to a theory and “neglect countervailing evidence” if they decide a certain individual must be guilty. “Psychologists call this ‘confirmation bias,’” Medwed said. “After you develop a hypothesis, […]