I think it's basically where the party doesn't admit guilt but admits that evidence in a criminal case would likely convict them....
Something like that.
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I think it's basically where the party doesn't admit guilt but admits that evidence in a criminal case would likely convict them....
Something like that.
Ehhhh... certainly don't think it's a 'sanity' issue with Brenden. He has a lower-functioning mind (not unlike Jessie Misskelley from the West Memphis Three, who also had a very sketchy and basically illegal confession extracted from him by the authorities) and sadly both his and his mother's complete lack of understanding regarding how the law works, combined with dirty, moral-deprived detectives, landed him in a nightmare situation he may never get out of.
I do agree 100% with you- all fucked up.
Edit: just to be clear I'm absolutely not victim-blaming Brenden and/or his mom. In the US it's not uncommon for many in this country not to know the full extent of their rights, especially in a situation like that.
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what about the people that think the victim was killed twice-once in a filthy bedroom and the again in a cluttered garage- and no blood was found in either room?
Actual photo of the guy
You think he'd just fall to his knees and cry, "Yes, I did it! I confess! By all means, please add a life term to my sentence!"
I think Avery was a guilty man who was railroaded by a corrupt system but... even if I did think he is innocent this seems like little more than advertising for a new documentary. An admittedly uncorroborated jailhouse confession from another lifer. Why didn't they look into it beyond "he was convicted of murder and is from wisconson" before release? Where was he that day, for starters?
It's a tad hyperbolic, but it would be the second time Avery is exonerated for a violent crime, and now his nephew along with him, so the state's justice system would likely undergo a financial reckoning for allowing it to happen and the fury that they've used to fight against Avery and Dassey's releases. WI taxpayers would have to absorb that hit.
They didn't use Brendan's confession at all for Steven's trial. They got convictions for both of them with completely different narratives.
I know they didn't use the confession at trial which is why I said they used the confession to taint the jury pool. Ken Kratz used the confession at his bs press conference before the trial.
Here's the confession...
I wonder if the fact that the series showed so many details about evidences (used and not used) that now it will be hard for the guy to corroborate with something that noone knows (and that can be proven). Assuming he is in fact the killer, ofc.
This is pretty timely on my part as I finally got around the watching the series last weekend. Living in Asia for the past 17 years, I knew nothing of the story. Within 4 days, I watched 19 episodes. I figured nothing would have changed by the end of season 2, but man, I was really hoping it'd end with at least Brendan getting out.
The Avery story is an American tragedy.
The Avery story is an American tragedy.
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