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re: Poll, Making a Murderer Spoilers obviously.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 2:45 pm to 13SaintTiger
Posted on 1/4/16 at 2:45 pm to 13SaintTiger
quote:"Mildly retarded" does not mean they didn't know right from wrong based on the law.
Except his iq score placed him at mildly retarded.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 2:49 pm to abellsujr
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I can't believe that a heavily mentally challenged individual could handle it that well.
You clearly have never dealt with mentally challenged individuals, so I end my discussion with this: Do your research.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 2:50 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
Re-read your second quote you provided closely. I said "ask yourself the likelihood of all this happening" as in whats the probability of every event I listed taking place which is what would be required for him to be 100% innocent.
It's entirely plausible for the police to have planted the car, her palm pilot and camera in his burn barrel and the blood in her car but not planted the key, etc etc. But in that scenario Steve wouldn't be innocent. To dumb it down even more. If Steve is innocent, all those things listed have to have been done by someone else. If he is guilty, not all of them have to be completed by Steve, which is were the police come in.
I'll be clear as you are having a hard time following what I'm saying. I think Steve Avery is guilty as shite. I don't think he should have been convicted based on the trial. I believe Brendon Dassey was a victim of him uncle's doing and should be watching wrestemania in his trailer as opposed to being in prison. I think the Manitowoc police department, DA Kratz, Det. Lenk and Officer Colburn (sp?) to all be corrupt trash that should serve prison time. As to a re-trial, I don't see know how it could be fair or just being that the original investigation was so tainted
It's entirely plausible for the police to have planted the car, her palm pilot and camera in his burn barrel and the blood in her car but not planted the key, etc etc. But in that scenario Steve wouldn't be innocent. To dumb it down even more. If Steve is innocent, all those things listed have to have been done by someone else. If he is guilty, not all of them have to be completed by Steve, which is were the police come in.
I'll be clear as you are having a hard time following what I'm saying. I think Steve Avery is guilty as shite. I don't think he should have been convicted based on the trial. I believe Brendon Dassey was a victim of him uncle's doing and should be watching wrestemania in his trailer as opposed to being in prison. I think the Manitowoc police department, DA Kratz, Det. Lenk and Officer Colburn (sp?) to all be corrupt trash that should serve prison time. As to a re-trial, I don't see know how it could be fair or just being that the original investigation was so tainted
Posted on 1/4/16 at 2:51 pm to The Eric
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definitely a little slow.
A little?
He literally did not know what "inconsistent" meant or the difference between a foot and a yard...
He then admits to a savage murder and his biggest concern is missing wrestlemania.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 2:53 pm to STLhog
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He literally did not know what "inconsistent" meant
Neither did his mother.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 2:57 pm to Baloo
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though not as appalling as Dassey's first attorney. That guy should have been disbarred.
What is your explanation for that guy's behavior? The least cynical view would be that he was so utterly convinced of the kid's guilt and so utterly cynical himself about the Wisconsin system that he thought the only way out for his client was to confess.
However, I just don't see how any attorney ever from any country or walk of life could EVER assent to a mentally-challenged CHILD undergoing intense interrogations without his attorney present.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 2:58 pm to abellsujr
I believe Brendan's IQ was reported at 70, anything below 80 is considered mentally retarded.
It isn't about being slow solving math problems. It's about limitations involving many abilities.
Brendan in his police interview easily has no idea of the consequences of signing a murder confession. Brendan's confession to his lawyer's PI was downright criminal by his attorney and blue ribbon crying PI IMO.
Brendan's lack of credibility is easily witnessed as the DA doesn't use him as a witness or reference any of Dassey's statements in Avery's trial - even though it was initially their goal to have Dassey as the key witness.
It isn't about being slow solving math problems. It's about limitations involving many abilities.
Brendan in his police interview easily has no idea of the consequences of signing a murder confession. Brendan's confession to his lawyer's PI was downright criminal by his attorney and blue ribbon crying PI IMO.
Brendan's lack of credibility is easily witnessed as the DA doesn't use him as a witness or reference any of Dassey's statements in Avery's trial - even though it was initially their goal to have Dassey as the key witness.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 2:59 pm to 13SaintTiger
quote:I have a brother in law and a sister in law who are mentally challenged. I also have a brother who took special ED classes in school.
You clearly have never dealt with mentally challenged individuals, so I end my discussion with this: Do your research.
My brother is and was very functional. He can drive. He can work some jobs that require some mild thinking, but he has been let go from many because he couldn't accomplish them. He now does physical labor and has a girlfriend, but could never do anything worth a damn with his life
My brother in law can not take care of himself. He's violent. He can't comprehend questions being asked to him. He will say the wrong answer to a 2+2 type question. He would NEVER be able to understand what the hell a court room even is, or even a lawyer. He would think he was in school
My sister in law is even worse. She repeats the same things over and over again out of nowhere. We could be going to the store at 8:00 at night and she could think she was going to school. She would NEVER be able to testify.
That's the difference.
This post was edited on 1/4/16 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 1/4/16 at 3:03 pm to the_watcher
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Re-read your second quote you provided closely. I said "ask yourself the likelihood of all this happening" as in whats the probability of every event I listed taking place which is what would be required for him to be 100% innocent.
It's entirely plausible for the police to have planted the car, her palm pilot and camera in his burn barrel and the blood in her car but not planted the key, etc etc. But in that scenario Steve wouldn't be innocent. To dumb it down even more. If Steve is innocent, all those things listed have to have been done by someone else. If he is guilty, not all of them have to be completed by Steve, which is were the police come in.
So your entire position, as I already stated, is that they probably planted some of the evidence or maybe even most of it, but it's somehow impossible that they could have planted all of it. Do you have some idea of how stupid that sounds? Three other posters have already widely disputed this for you, and your response has been to read Reddit, or some similar nonsense.
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I'll be clear as you are having a hard time following what I'm saying. I think Steve Avery is guilty as shite. I don't think he should have been convicted based on the trial. I believe Brendon Dassey was a victim of him uncle's doing and should be watching wrestemania in his trailer as opposed to being in prison. I think the Manitowoc police department, DA Kratz, Det. Lenk and Officer Colburn (sp?) to all be corrupt trash that should serve prison time.
I'm following you just fine, I'm just doing my best to help you follow what it is you're saying. I'm still not convinced you're able to do that. You can have whatever opinions you want, but those opinions don't represent our legal system.
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As to a re-trial, I don't see know how it could be fair or just being that the original investigation was so tainted
"Fair" to who?
Posted on 1/4/16 at 3:06 pm to drizztiger
quote:Did he know right from wrong? Was he "insane"?
mentally retarded.
Was he examined by psychiatrist? The defense never once tried to prove he was "insane" or whether or not he knew right from wrong. Never heard it even brought up. Why? Maybe because of how well he was able to perform on the stand? Maybe because they couldn't find a psychiatrist to confirm this? I agree that the documentary did not go into detail about this, but you have to ask yourself some of these questions.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 3:15 pm to LanierSpots
I dont see how Steven did it, yet there were huge holes in the evidence linking him to the murder. I just dont think he's even remotely capable enough to do all of that , yet leave such a scarce trail of DNA or other pieces of physical evidence.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 3:15 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
Jesus Christ man. My position is that if he is innocent someone else would have to be responsible for everything. If he is guilty, they could still be responsible for some things but not all. Where did I say it was impossible for them to have done everything? Where did I say to read Reddit? Please show me, I'll wait. WTF are you talking about? I linked an article listing facts about the case from a magazine that weren't included in the documentary. This happens on tigerdroppings constantly you people just spew nonsense about things "I said" which aren't true at all in hopes to further your own view point.
To Steve Avery.
quote:Holy fricking shite. When did I become the law czar of TD? When did I say my opinion represents the laws of our legal system?
You can have whatever opinions you want, but those opinions don't represent our legal system.
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"Fair" to who?
To Steve Avery.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 3:16 pm to Capital Cajun
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but I feel like some of the details from the prosecution was left out.
The lawyers have answered that there was no significant evidence left out. You can find the answers to these things. Ken Kratz has already proven unreliable and more than willing to blatantly lie for his "reputation".
Posted on 1/4/16 at 3:18 pm to RGJ18
People need to SOURCE everything. Stop just reading and taking people's word at face value. All of these things have to be VERIFIED, or else its not worth saying at all.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 3:18 pm to Big Scrub TX
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What is your explanation for that guy's behavior? The least cynical view would be that he was so utterly convinced of the kid's guilt and so utterly cynical himself about the Wisconsin system that he thought the only way out for his client was to confess.
Laziness? From a financial standpoint, its better for him if Dassey pleads out right away. He gets a check for almost no work, and he gets to move on. He saw how badly the DA wanted to get Avery and he immediately tried to align with them to get a deal.
But you should get disbarred if you let your client meet with opposing counsel without you present in a CIVIL trial, much less criminal with much higher stakes. Even if his client was Moriarty, sending him to a police interview without attending as his attorney is gross misconduct. And the cops, who knew Dassey had a lawyer, should have stopped the interview as well, knowing it would be inadmissable (which is why they concocted the phone call to mom). It was disgusting, and worse yet that his own counsel was the one setting him up for a murder charge.
And let's not even get into his investigator, who was practically working for the prosecution and who teared up on the stand. What a colossal a-hole. Still, he was working for the attorney, so its his responsibility first and foremost.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 3:22 pm to AlbertMeansWell
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I think it's likely that Brendan ran into Steve shortly after it happened and helped him clean up or something along those line
Helped him clean up? Do you see how filthy that place is? You honestly think things wouldn't look out of place? They are themselves filthy. Look at their fricking hands!! And even the police would always talk about Seven having to shower every time he came in. Whether the showering stuff was true or not, its obvious they were filthy compared to the average person. Are you telling me they cleaned up, and then made everything look like the shite pile it was before? Give me a break.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 3:23 pm to Baloo
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And the cops, who knew Dassey had a lawyer, should have stopped the interview as well, knowing it would be inadmissable (which is why they concocted the phone call to mom)
Ah, I didn't make that connection. I was really disappointed with the state's investigators - especially the taller guy. I could sense that he was intelligent enough and knew right from wrong enough to have stopped himself, but it seemed like he was caught by the inertia of the situation. By the end, I was just outright hoping he would be in a car crash.
I stand by my claim that the American public in general is almost entirely in the dark when it comes to issues of eyewitness unreliability as well as coerced confessions. I study the topics quite a bit, so it's natural for me to just accept what we now know. But most dipshits in places like Manitowoc, Wisconsin, are stuck on "I know damn well what I saw with my own 2 eyes!" and eager prosecution teams know this and exploit it to the hilt.
I'm honestly to the point where I almost believe eyewitness testimony shouldn't even be allowed.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 3:34 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Ah, I didn't make that connection. I was really disappointed with the state's investigators - especially the taller guy. I could sense that he was intelligent enough and knew right from wrong enough to have stopped himself, but it seemed like he was caught by the inertia of the situation. By the end, I was just outright hoping he would be in a car crash.
It's like Avery's lawyers said, it's well-intentioned corruption. Look at someone who is less sympathetic in the doc: Sgt. Cobourn.
I think it's entirely likely that Cobourn did not plant any evidence. However, he was always the cop there to back up Lenk, no matter what the action. He night have suspected that Lenk's actions were not on the up and up, but he constantly backed up his higher ranked officer's actions. Which is pretty typical of police, they will close ranks and protect even the worst of them (which I think is their biggest issue: something like 90% of all police shootings are by cops involved in multiple shootings... yet cops always back their brothers instead of trying to drum out bad cops).
There's no way Cobourn is so dumb as to believe that Lenk didn't plant that key, given that it was missed on prior searches despite sitting out in the open, yet shows up as soon as Lenk goes into the house without signing in. But Cobourn is a company man, so he endorses Lenk's acts and doesn't air any of his suspicions because cops don't publicly question other cops, particularly their superior officer in a court of law. Cobourn spots the key and THEN starts doing things by the book.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 4:06 pm to the_watcher
You provided fourth-hand information through an article in which the author openly admitted contains speculative information, and presented it as fact. You're right though, it was someone else that mentioned Reddit. That was better than what you posted.
The minute you opened your mouth and began calling other people ignorant because they didn't see things your way.
WTF.
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Holy fricking shite. When did I become the law czar of TD? When did I say my opinion represents the laws of our legal system?
The minute you opened your mouth and began calling other people ignorant because they didn't see things your way.
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To Steve Avery.
WTF.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 4:13 pm to tiggerthetooth
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yet leave such a scarce trail of DNA or other pieces of physical evidence.
Bones and all her shite in his barrel wasn't enough?
How did they even prove the stabbing and the head shot? Was all that verified?
I figured blunt force trauma or strangulation with gloves was much more likely..
This post was edited on 1/4/16 at 4:24 pm
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