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Originally Posted by PoorSkillz
Like I said before, I believe the flaws the series points out in the Dassey case are a lot more legitimate, and we have the full transcripts so we are able to know a lot more about the trial.
There's a lot of differences between:
the Avery case - all the evidence points to him doing it (and the defense's only case is the evidence was part of a complex conspiracy theory and/or technicalities in how the case was handled)
and
the Dassey case - there's less evidence tying him to the murder, but he confessed to doing it. He definitely wasn't completely telling the truth, although it's still very possible he did murder her too (and he was definitely involved in some way that night).
And honestly, I'm still not sure the jury was wrong to convict him - evidence ties to him being involved in something, and he did confess to doing it, and I haven't read all of the transcripts. But I really don't know what to make of his case and think I would find him not guilty; it all really depends on the whole "false confession" issue and IANAL, so I don't know... We'll see what happens with Dassey's appeal.
Bumping my thoughts from months ago that I still stand by today.
At this point, I hope Brendan takes some kind of Alford plea admitting to helping Steven cover up the crime.
It'd be a real shame if history repeats itself and he once again gets ****ed over falling on his sword for Steven.