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Originally Posted by lkasigh
Even if you decide to throw out all the evidence, he was the last person seen with the victim, he had a bonfire the night she disappeared, and her body was later found burned on his property. Add all these up and even if it's not enough on its own for proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but enough to make him a very serious suspect.
None of the points that you raise take away from this. They don't provide him an alibi. They don't provide evidence that someone else did it. All they do is cast question on the other pieces of evidence that substantiate his guilt.
There's no way the evidence in the case supports the degree of confidence you are claiming in Avery's innocence. A case can be made for reasonable doubt, but claiming that the evidence shows him to be innocent is completely absurd.
What is going on here? What does "Even if" mean. Why would I ignore all the evidence? I've admitted many times that it is absolutely legit to think he should be the "prime" suspect given just the cherry picked evidence you mentioned. Unfortunately, since we are thinking human beings, we don't simply toss out the other evidence. I have no idea why that would be a part of your equation.
He does have an alibi...he has several actually. He has recorded phone calls the night of. He has Scott Tadych saying his fire was only 3 feet high. He has Brendan Dassey admitting many times that nothing like this occurred (although this is after his coerced confession). Why are we talking about an alibi when there is virtually no DNA evidence to support any of the prosecution's claims? There's no motive. There's no means to carry out what is supposed to have happened. What tiny amount of DNA they do have is completely suspect...like investigators-need-to-be-investigated suspect. It's off the charts types of circumstantial evidence that minimally warrants an independent investigation as to what has happened here. There's is a factual, admitted conflict of interest that was supposed to have been avoided by MC's retraction from the investigation. However, on the contrary, MC personnel were the most heavily utilized personnel on the scene. Somehow, this is now being justified by Calumet's lack of resources. Even if we didn't have Calumet personnel testifying that they in fact are more qualified than most of MC's investigators and in fact had very little involvement during key evidence discovery, we have a flat out conflicting information coming from Sheriff Pagel vs what actually happened.
It has been posted multiple times (fraleyight is still campaigning on this page) about the main evidence that points to Avery as a suspect and his subsequent guilt. But I have posted more than enough reasons why this main evidence is not only questionable, in several cases it points towards planting and even of his innocence. Again, all it would take is simply one piece of evidence that I simply cannot refute and my needle would be moved. On the contrary though every single piece of evidence has a relatively high chance of being false, planted or otherwise illegitimate. So, being a person that utilizes probabilities for a living, for me it's still not even close that he's innocent.
Last edited by lostinthesaus; 02-15-2016 at 09:11 PM.