The State of Texas vs. Melissa

Movie trying to right this injustice.

Free Melissa!

End the death penalty!

This is a disgrace that for no crime , a mother will be killed by the state. Who are the haters who find this ok??

This Documentary shows how the justice system has and is failing so many people. From the very beginning I could tell Melissa did not do what she was being accused of, it's so unfair that the justice system would rather just charge someone and close the case instead of finding out the whole truth. How can a justice system be ok with sending the wrong person to jail for life so many different times. Melissa I pray for you and your family to be together soon and for the justice system to go into these cases with both eyes open innocent until proven guilty is what it is supposed to be not guilty no matter what. And that lawyer who held all that information should have been disbarred not given a damn promotion that right there shows what side he was on from the get go. Very good documentary shows the truth and that is what should always matter the truth.

Praying for you and your family everyday Melissa you are a strong woman.

I dont know why modern documentaries have to move at such a slow, drawn out pace. I was really interested in the subject, but after 20 minutes of watching the very slow moving unnecessary scenes, and the very slow dialogs, it just became to frustrating.

It's no surprise to find our judicial system is so broken and corrupt. Given that the sorry DA is serving time, she should have given a new trial or dismal. I don't buy the "defense" attorney should also be placed under a microscope. "Never thought" he'd be working for the DA is bull. Totally obvious why he let this case flop. May all those "men" involved feel the wrath of those children who lost out. The film once again displays where we as a society fail.

I gave it an eight based on the story but was reluctant. It made me upset that they made it appear that Harlingen is enormous when they filmed multiple cities in the Rio Grande Valley.

While everyone in the documentary and the review section are boohooing because Melissa is a brown Hispanic woman, the real question should be who killed Mariah? Which no one is seemly unable to answer. All I see is a lot of deflection, deflection, deflection and the typical "She wouldn't do this. She doesn't fit the criteria blah, blah, blah..." First of all, she did fit the criteria. The problem with this documentary that it skips purposely on the evidences because the producer is trying to whitewash Melissa wrong doings as much as possible but the problem is a lot of things are disconnected or make no sense.

Just because she's Hispanic, brown skin, and a woman doesn't mean the justice system is broke. Melissa was a crackhead and homeless with 14 kids. The medical examiner said the poor baby was beaten and had bite marks, I didn't know the stair had teeth nor could it move on its own to beat the child.