@AJHawkfan, No doubt Steven isn't the most honorable of men, and I too find the whole Avery clan to be, as you put it, "one fucked up family." The one I feel for, though, is Brendan. That poor son-of-a-bitch has no business being in prison. He was completely taken advantage of by Weigert and Fassbender so that they could obtain warrants to "find" more evidence. I believe the original plan for him was to have him be the star witness against Steven and in exchange for his testimony he was to receive a significantly reduced sentence or no time at all. But, it turned out he wouldn't "play ball" as it were and so they sent him up the creek too. He was a pawn.
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So, as I've had more and more time to let the series sink in and have been able to process some things....
Part of the problem we have, I think, is that we know the whole tale. Which is to say, we know that Dassey's confession was pure bullshit. But... the Avery jury never,
never heard that confession, nor was it's legitimacy examined by his attorneys at trial. What the jury
did hear, as
@OH10 said was unethical behavior of the special prosecutor, was Kratz going on a "If you're under 15, please step away from the TV" diatribe about what Dassey said he and Steve did. They didn't hear that at trial, they heard it on TV and it was quite likely in the back of the juror's minds on some level.
Speaking of which, the fact that Dassey's confession never made its way into Steven's trial is quite problematic for Steven on post conviction matters. The prosecution repeatedly used Dassey's ever changing confessions as an instrument to gain warrants for other searches. Which is to say, Weigert and Fassbender would manipulate Dassey into saying something they needed so that they could get another warrant to go find (read: plant) the evidence they needed to ensure Steven's conviction. On the face, the "new information" was sufficient to support probable cause, but, in reality it we know the information was fed to Dassey by the cops and was, consequently,
not probable cause. It was the cop's own narrative being expressed thru Brendan.
And... it's a good thing that Kratz didn't bring up Dassey's confession(
s) in Avery's trial. He knew the jurors already had that narrative floating around in their minds. But what he also knew they
didn't know was that Dassey's story changed in significant ways. They didn't find any of Halbach's hair anywhere in the trailer.... But, Dassey was clear he cut it off... until the cops talked him out of that fact being true in one of he three other "confessions." That's just one example, if you look at this guy's site you'll find many more:
Link (Scroll down towards the bottom of the page)
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I'm to believe Avery and Dassey cleaned the garage so well there was no evidence of Hallbach's blood there, and yet they didn't bother to toss away the .22 shells laying around or find the bullet/bullet fragments? They cleaned the scene of Halbach's blood, but weren't able to clean up the deer blood also staining the floor?
I'm to believe Avery - who had access to a smelter on the property - decided to use a burn pit?
I'm to believe that Avery - who had access to a car crusher - decided to "hide" the automobile in plain site by.... actually trying to hide it under a few sticks and another's vehicle's hood leaning against it in a "pit" of some 4,000 junk cars? Hidden so poorly - and so
obviously attempted to be hidden - that it stood out like a fucking beacon?
And.. divine intervention Pam... come the fuck on...
