Attention, amateur sleuths:

Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, defense attorneys for Steven Avery in the Netflix documentary series Making A Murderer, announce North American dates for A Conversation on Justice Tour. Strang and Buting’s multi-city speaking tour, which starts April 16th at Berklee Theater in Boston and hits cities across the U.S. and Canada through mid-August, will involve the two attorneys in conversation about the Steven Avery case and its broader implications, as well as a discussion on the larger topic of the American criminal justice system. Each night will also feature a Q&A portion and the opportunity for the audience to address questions directly to Dean Strang and Jerry Buting.

At a time when the nation is gripped with pressing questions about the fairness and effectiveness of our criminal justice system, concerns that have been highlighted by true crime narratives from Making A Murderer, Serial and The Jinx to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, Strang and Buting will be exploring and discussing our process of justice today and throughout history. Reviewing these situations, they will highlight the imperfections in our judicial system and suggest improvements that are sorely needed.

The above comes from one of the weirder press releases I've received, possibly ever. Buting and Strang, you'll recall, are the lawyers whose defense of Steven Avery was one of the most fascinating elements of Netflix's Making a Murder, in spite (or because?) of their endearing wonkiness. There are also echoes of Serial here: One of the best things to come out of Serial's first season is Undisclosed, the lawyer-hosted podcast that takes dissecting the Adnan Syed case to obsessive new heights. Though the Buting-Strang tour may have the look of an odd cash-grab, I actually think that these lawyer-shepherded looks inside the legal system are potentially educational in that they offer a nominally improved understanding of how the justice system works—and doesn't.

I certainly didn't know what a Brady violation was until Undisclosed. It'll be interesting to see what new information Buting and Strang impart. They'll be in Portland June 19.