“We’re documentary filmmakers, we’re not prosecutors. We’re not defense attorneys,” executive producer/director Laura Ricciardi said Sunday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena. “We did not set out to convict or exonerate anyone. We set out to examine the justice system and how it’s functioning today.” Ricciardi admitted that, “of course, we left out evidence” because “there would have been no other way” to complete the project. “It just would have been impossible for us to include every piece of evidence that was submitted to the court or attempted to be submitted to the court,” Ricciardi explained. “So we took our cues from the prosecution, what they thought was the most compelling evidence, that’s what we included.” “We were not putting on a trial, but a film,” she continued. “Of what was omitted, was that really significant? The answer is no.”