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04-27-2016 , 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by housenuts
That's fair imo. If you didn't do it, don't plead guilty. Pleading guilty when you didn't do it is basically lying in court. If anything, state should get compensation from the exonerated prisoners to cover the cost of free housing/food.
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Originally Posted by housenuts
Then go to jail for a year and don't seek compensation for wrongful incarceration. In fact I don't see how it's possibly "wrongful" incarceration when the person plead guilty to it. That's about as close to "rightful incarceration" as you can get.

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04-27-2016 , 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by markksman
Yeah if you are coerced into a false confession your pretty much have to accept any plea given you because jurors have not caught up to the reality that confessions should not be heavily weighted as evidence.
tell that to BD
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04-27-2016 , 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by housenuts
tell that to BD
Yeah he probably could have taken a plea if KK wasn't hell bent on getting blood, and the kid coulda been out of prison at 30 instead of spending his whole life there
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04-27-2016 , 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by RichGangi

Thanks for continuing to add to this thread.
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04-27-2016 , 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by yeotaJMU
Yeah he probably could have taken a plea if KK wasn't hell bent on getting blood, and the kid coulda been out of prison at 30 instead of spending his whole life there
According to Kratz, they had a plea deal on the table for Brendan:

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KEN KRATZ: The Dassey case is every bit as interesting as the Avery case for different reasons, you know, with the false confession and just the manipulation of this young man both institutional -- that is, perceived at least, from law enforcement -- as well as his own family: how he was really sacrificed, and how his plea offer that he had accepted was really thwarted because it was going to make Steven's case a more difficult case. It's such a tragic outcome for that 16-yr-old to have to... endure that...

DR DREW: I don't think we heard the plea bargain. What was that?

KEN KRATZ: Well, he was given opportunity to testify against his uncle, and because of his much less involvement -- or at least, his more limited involvement -- in these series of crimes, he was provided an opportunity to serve as little as 15 years in prison. And he had accepted that plea bargain, but it wasn't his attorneys who eventually nixed the deal, it was his mother and his grandfather, through phone calls urging him, in fact, directing him, not to accept the plea bargain and to make sure that he goes to trial, because if he did -- and this is the real disturbing telephone call and things -- was that it was going to hurt Steven's case.
And you know, this family lived really almost a cult-like existence out on that salvage property, with Steven being at the very center of everything that went on.

And so, Brendan, although being much less involved, unfortunately -- and as a prosecutor at the time, I said "unfortunately" -- he was made to choose the path that could only had led to life imprisonment, and that's what he ended up with. And that's just sad. It's not part of the story that MaM told anybody. It isn't something even that you want to believe a mother or a grandfather would engage in. But it happened, and of course it will be part of my book and part of the story as I finally get to tell the other side.
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04-27-2016 , 05:08 PM
Man if he testified against Avery, Avery would have gotten off because of Dassey's fiction and Dassey woulda been in jail for the plea. Lol.
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04-27-2016 , 05:40 PM
Ya I call BS on what Kratz says there. Kratz wanted BD to have nothing to do with Avery trial. He served his purpose to get his rape story out and that was it.
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04-27-2016 , 05:54 PM
Disagree completely with both of you.

1. To think that a witness testifying to committing the crime with Steven would help Steven's defense is ****ing ludicrous.

2. Why do you say that Kratz wanted BD to have nothing to do with the Avery trial? While that may be true after Brendan recanted his confession and refused to take any plea deal, as he couldn't be forced to testify, where is there any evidence of this before that or is it just baseless speculation?
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04-27-2016 , 06:25 PM
Cmon man. Some mentally incapable kid against averys lawyers woulda had a bad time... When he starts spewing about rapes and slitting throats and stabbing stomachs in the bedroom, not to mention going back and forth on everything he would've just casted more doubt on everything
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04-27-2016 , 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by PoorSkillz
Disagree completely with both of you.

...just baseless speculation?
Based on this kid being destroyed by cross-examination. I don't care how long you gave him to prep. The defense attorneys would have been him appear beyond inept. You can see how the made Andy Colburn, a seasoned investigator wearing a uniform, look suspicious.
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04-27-2016 , 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by PoorSkillz
where is there any evidence of this before that or is it just baseless speculation?
common sense speculation

I also still don't understand how "all the evidence points to one man and one man alone" yet two men are found guilty of it.
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04-27-2016 , 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by yeotaJMU
Cmon man. Some mentally incapable kid against averys lawyers woulda had a bad time... When he starts spewing about rapes and slitting throats and stabbing stomachs in the bedroom, not to mention going back and forth on everything he would've just casted more doubt on everything
Everything at the confession(s) would have been used as evidence.

Would he answer yes or not if he cut her hair? If he answered no, what would be his answer why 10 times he answered yes? "I dunno" "I was guessing"
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04-28-2016 , 01:44 AM
You all are missing a very important variable here. What if BD was involved? Don't you think if he had accepted a plea deal and were to testify, his testimony would be accurate and difficult to challenge on cross?
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04-28-2016 , 01:45 AM
I mean in other words, you guys think he looked bad on cross examination in his trial because hes dumb.. Maybe it had more to do with him lying.
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04-28-2016 , 02:42 AM
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Originally Posted by housenuts
common sense speculation
Just like I thought, your speculation is baseless.

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I also still don't understand how "all the evidence points to one man and one man alone" yet two men are found guilty of it.
That's because the quote didn't say "one man alone"...
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04-28-2016 , 02:47 AM
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Originally Posted by yeotaJMU
Cmon man. Some mentally incapable kid against averys lawyers woulda had a bad time... When he starts spewing about rapes and slitting throats and stabbing stomachs in the bedroom, not to mention going back and forth on everything he would've just casted more doubt on everything
1. He's not mentally incapable.

2. He's the only person with Steven that night and he's testifying that they killed her. That's game over no matter how hard they try to impeach the witness. Also worth noting: Brendan was found guilty, even when claiming he made all the **** up and even without the abundance of evidence. That should say it all.
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04-28-2016 , 03:12 AM
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Originally Posted by PoorSkillz
1. He's not mentally incapable.

2. He's the only person with Steven that night and he's testifying that they killed her. That's game over no matter how hard they try to impeach the witness. Also worth noting: Brendan was found guilty, even when claiming he made all the **** up and even without the abundance of evidence. That should say it all.
Lol
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04-28-2016 , 03:13 AM
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Originally Posted by PoorSkillz
Just like I thought, your speculation is baseless.


That's because the quote didn't say "one man alone"...
No two men committed the same exact murder just in dramatically different ways.
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04-28-2016 , 03:23 AM
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Originally Posted by fraleyight
I mean in other words, you guys think he looked bad on cross examination in his trial because hes dumb.. Maybe it had more to do with him lying.
Dassey's IQ was reported to be between 69-73. Do you know what that means?

So we are essentially talking about a coerced confession from a mentally handicapped teenager.

I give you guys credit. You have never faltered from standing behind the absolute least defensible and most reprehensible part of this whole saga, the Dassey confession. It completely destroys your credibility and demonstrably proves you are not looking at any of this with an open mind or a desire for truth or justice. But you have your consistency.


Edit: and just to correct something poor said, anyone can be forced to testify. He may plead the 5th but Dassey certainly could have been forced to testify. Of course it didn't really work for Krantz and his dual tracks for the same crime path he was pursuing.

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04-28-2016 , 03:40 AM
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Originally Posted by housenuts
tell that to BD
Yeah BD' whose confession should not have ever even been admitted after his attorney got removed from the case for allowing him to be interviewed alone. Yet somehow the confession is allowed.

You keep throwing up this examples like they are proving something. Dassey and his family knew he had nothing to do wit it and the confession was completely bogus so yeah in those cases it is possible some people gamble. Especially a mentally ******ed minor who knows they were nit involved.

Plus what was the plea offer? 10,15,30 years? As far as I know Kratz is the only one to even specify what the plea bargain was. Plus more goes into it than just the length of sentence. Given the nonsense Dassey made up he would likely be doing his time as a sex offender.

Still waiting for ANY evidence independent of Dassey's confession that Dassey was involved at all prior, during and shortly afterwards. I will be waiting forever.

But it's cool if a ******ed 16 year old is lied, abused and manipulated by experienced police interrogators.
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04-28-2016 , 04:41 AM
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Originally Posted by PoorSkillz
2. He's the only person with Steven that night and he's testifying that they killed her. That's game over no matter how hard they try to impeach the witness. Also worth noting: Brendan was found guilty, even when claiming he made all the **** up and even without the abundance of evidence. That should say it all.
Yes it says lol America
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04-28-2016 , 06:44 AM
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Thanks for continuing to add to this thread.
You're very welcome. As if this thread is worth truly contributing to at this point.

I'd love to read your thoughts on those posts by Housenuts....
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04-28-2016 , 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by markksman
Edit: and just to correct something poor said, anyone can be forced to testify. He may plead the 5th but Dassey certainly could have been forced to testify. Of course it didn't really work for Krantz and his dual tracks for the same crime path he was pursuing.
I believe in America if the state wants to call Dassey as a witness they have to exempt him from prosecution for that crime.

Also a spouse can't be forced to testify.
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04-28-2016 , 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by housenuts
Yes it says lol America
Say "lol America" all you want, but the fact is you want it to be one way in your "common sense" world, when it's the other way in reality.
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04-28-2016 , 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by PoorSkillz
Also worth noting: Brendan was found guilty, even when claiming he made all the **** up and even without the abundance of evidence. That should say it all.


There should be an appeal to a jury of hicks fallacy.


Avery was found guilty of rape. That should say it all. Oh wait lol you.
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