re: New Netflix docu-series "Making a Murderer" (Spoilers)

if I ever get in trouble, I want Dean Strang to be my lawyer

he was easily the most likeable person in the entire series

he was the anti-Kratz

god I laughed so hard at his "I have the $350k house" line to try and pick up that chick

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"I am the prize"

ugh, makes me cringe

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especially if you read it in his voice...

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if I ever get in trouble, I want Dean Strang to be my lawyer

he was easily the most likeable person in the entire series

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I really enjoyed watching Strang and Buting together. As a defense team, I thought they were fantastic.

Strang has the calm, collect attitude and can drop bombshells without flinching. The way he grilled Colburn and the state DNA scientist in a totally relaxed demeanor probably helped a lot in swaying the jury to 7 initial not-guilty votes. You could see Colburn fidgeting while Strang just stared through his soul.

Buting, on the other hand, had the subtle condescension that was perfect for cross-examination and poking holes in the state's case. Every time someone would go, "I don't recall," Buting's little turn where he walks back to his table and says, "You don't recall. Interesting..." was awesome. I felt like he was the perfect counter to Kratz because he sort of employed the same techniques but would make Kratz look like an idiot, especially at the press podium.

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Love how Strang immediately owns him on those "facts" following Kratz in that interview. Basically, yeah they left them out because they was even less evidence behind them then the BS you heard in the trial.

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Out of the 14 "facts" in that article everyone keeps bringing back, at least 10 of them are completely bogus or irrelevant to anything. Even the corrupt/incompetent judge couldn't figure out a way to allow a lot of it in.

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if I ever get in trouble, I want Dean Strang to be my lawyer

he was easily the most likeable person in the entire series

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Absolutely. I thought the same thing.

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Colburn calls in Rav4 plates to dispatch. Dispatch confirms the plate numbers. Colburn says 1999 Rav4.
- That was 2 days before the Rav4 was found in Avery's lot.
- The Rav4 - found 2 days later - didn't have plates.
- Colburn has no explanation.

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Information about the car was most likely released by the family once she was reported missing.

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Information about the car was most likely released by the family once she was reported missing.

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If that was the case, why didn't he just say so? That'd be the most logical response if that was the case. I'd have to go back and watch to be sure, but from what I can remember, Colburn's response was very strange.

Don't be strange.

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Have you seen "The Staircase"?

It's a long docuseries that is in the same vein as "Making a Murderer". It's available streaming online. I won't give any specific details but y'all should check it out.

It covers years of a murder case from start to finish. The documentary film makers were on another project when the murder happened and they started filming something like within a week of the murder and follow it all the way through the investigation and trial. They practically lived with the people involved. It's fantastic.

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And I will absolutely recommend that NOBODY take this advice to watch The Staircase. It's the actual version of what some people are claiming MaM is: horribly slanted and biased.

I, too, watched The Staircase and was outraged. Then I decided to pick up a book about the case. It was truly shameful what was left out. The filmmakers, were, I believe, 2 French brothers who did the doc you mentioned (Murder on a Sunday Morning) and they did discover pretty shocking abuse of a poor minority in the legal system.

I think with The Staircase they were so gung ho on their meme of terrible American justice that they were totally and completely blinded.

TL;DR - don't watch The Staircase - the guy definitely did it and the filmmakers are derelict in presenting reality.

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I really enjoyed watching Strang and Buting together. As a defense team, I thought they were fantastic.

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I love them too...BUT: they don't seem to have spent any time with jury on something so essential as educating them on the science of coerced confessions. Especially 10 years ago, the average American juror probably wouldn't have even been aware that such a thing was real.

That was a huge error of omission and could have been the difference (to both cases.)