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Court: "Making a Murderer" defendant Brendan Dassey's confession stands

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The state says the confession should stand because it was done according to long-accepted practice. So, if I understand correctly, we should be allowed to continue to do something just because that's the way we've always done it... even if it's wrong.

Boggles the brain cells.
Court: "Making a Murderer" defendant Brendan Dassey's confession stands

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-making-a-murderer-defendant-brendan-dasseys-confession-stands/

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"State attorneys asked the full 7th Circuit to review the case, arguing the ruling called long-accepted police interrogation tactics into question. The appellate court rarely grants such reviews but opted to take Dassey's case in August without comment on the merits."

Emphasis in bold mine.
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Calling methods of interrogation into question potentially opens up tens of thousands of closed cases to claims of mistrials. Good or bad, that's potentially a bureaucratic ****storm that few in law enforcement would like to unleash.
 
Jesse Booth said:
Calling methods of interrogation into question potentially opens up tens of thousands of closed cases to claims of mistrials. Good or bad, that's potentially a bureaucratic ****storm that few in law enforcement would like to unleash.
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Just curious if you watched the documentary? Did you see how they did it?

This case is yet another example of how criminal our courts have become, not unlike the Kansas case of Robert and Addie Harte in April 2012
 
That sucks. I think that was his last hope. The SCOTUS probably wont take the case so the decision will probably stand. I think he is innocent. After watching the confession it seemed like they would have gotten him to admit he killed JFK if they wanted to.
 
99percenter said:
That sucks. I think that was his last hope. The SCOTUS probably wont take the case so the decision will probably stand. I think he is innocent. After watching the confession it seemed like they would have gotten him to admit he killed JFK if they wanted to.
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Agreed.
 
radcen said:
Agreed.
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The state of Wisconsin really fought hard to keep him in prison. Usually its the defense that files multiple appeals. In this case it was reversed. Very odd they would rather keep an innocent guy in prison than own up to a mistake.
 
99percenter said:
The state of Wisconsin really fought hard to keep him in prison. Usually its the defense that files multiple appeals. In this case it was reversed. Very odd they would rather keep an innocent guy in prison than own up to a mistake.
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Well, the implication in the documentary was that it was law enforcement officials there that murdered Teresa Halbach and put her remains on his property. Which would explain why they would take things to extremes, if true.
 
ashurbanipal said:
Well, the implication in the documentary was that it was law enforcement officials there that murdered Teresa Halbach and put her remains on his property. Which would explain why they would take things to extremes, if true.
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I don't think that should have anything to do with dassey's confession. The problem is illegal tactics the police used to get that confession.
 
99percenter said:
I don't think that should have anything to do with dassey's confession. The problem is illegal tactics the police used to get that confession.
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Oh, sure. I was merely pointing out another aspect of the case. But I agree that the police should not be allowed to use such tactics to obtain a confession. I also agree that just because the police have gotten away with it in the past is no reason they should continue to do so.
 
ashurbanipal said:
Well, the implication in the documentary was that it was law enforcement officials there that murdered Teresa Halbach and put her remains on his property. Which would explain why they would take things to extremes, if true.
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Neither the defence or the documentary implied anything of the kind. There was a subtle hint that the former boyfriend of Halbach should be looked at.

The suggestion is that law enforcement wanted to convict Avery to save themselves from the consequence of the wrongful conviction that had led to Avery spending 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
 
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