Soldato
As said, I'll leave it at that.
Just finished it. To the poster above. Watch season 2 and have your world rocked.
I cannot believe how much of a miss carriage of justice this is.
The Brendan confession feels really, really dodgy. I'm with the dissenting judges on that. It was also annoying having Avery's lawyers views on that hearing where she pointed out what she'd've done differently... I couldn't help but feel she was completely right and if they'd done what she said it could have been different. Some of the judges clearly dialled in on Brendan providing details as though those details were fact even if there was no forensic evidence to support them.
I find inconsistencies in your break down @Screeeech and derive different outcomes.
Weigert and Fassbender were prompting Brendan, what happened with so and so and this and that, we know the truth come on buddy the sooner we get what we want the sooner you can get out. Brendan's first answer to most questions is "I dunno" with a long drawn silence, this is hardly fabricating on the fly as you suggest in your Profile. So the agents prompt him, what happened with the knife Brendan "I dunno..." long drawn silence, come on buddy we know the truth you just gotta say it, "mmm.. he cut her" ok where was she cut Brendan "I dunno..." long drawn silence, come on buddy your doing great where was she cut, we know the truth you just gotta say it "mmm in the stomach..
That's why Brendan's story fits so well, it was a lie and made up. Brendan may be clinically a retard but he's not amnesiac, I don't see why he'd forget a story he's constructing in his head especially with the 2 agents who keep going on at him giving him the building materials, "what happened in the garage Brendan" 'Brendans head: k so they want something about the garage' "mmm he shot her" where did her shoot her Brendan 'Brendans head: ffs I dunno, leg? arm? no... she's dead and that wouldn't do it' "mmm in the head"
Evidence. As I've said in the other thread the critical evidence actually has none. No blood or DNA in the bedroom, no restraints, no damage to the bed from the restraints, no blood or DNA or gunpowder residue in the garage or on Steven. The murder we are led to believe happened on Oct 31st 2005, so why did it take until Brendan's 'confession' on March 1st 2006 to build a case against Steven? apparently they already knew what happened as they kept telling Brendan so, yet every bit of the prosecutions account of the events on that day come directly from what Brendan said, and on March 2nd 2006 Ken Kratz gave his famous press conference and the double kicker of this is that Ken Kratz claims Brendan's confession wasn't required in convicting Steven. So then why wasn't Steven sent down 4 or 5 months earlier?
Cooperation. A four hour interrogation sure as **** sounds to me like Brendan took a lot of coercing, every bit of volunteered information was followed by "come on we know the truth" and then a bit of help "what really happened". Telling the truth doesn't take 4 hours, making up a story does.
There are people who choose to believe the moon landings were faked. There are people who choose to believe the Earth is flat. And there are those who choose to believe Avery is innocent. For these idiots there will never be enough evidence to persuade them otherwise. Even if Avery confessed at this point they would cook up some convoluted conspiracy theory to account for it.
We can all agree that Brendan is a low functioning individual with an IQ of 60-70