Brendan Dassey From “Making A Murderer” Will Remain In Jail

Brendan Dassey is the young man from Netflix’s controversial Making A Murderer docu-series who would appear to have been convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. The series focused on Brendan and his uncle Steven Avery and whether or not they were unjustly convicted of the 2005 murder of photographer Theresa Halbach. My mental jury is still out on Avery, but to me, the doc clearly showed how police detectives and the Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office railroaded then 16-year-old, intellectually deficient Brendan into confessing. It looked like justice had (for once) actually triumphed and Brendan was getting out. Not so. Buzzfeed reports that Brendan lost his appeal on Friday. Can’t The Miz, Sheamus, and his other WWE heroes band together to break his ass out? Continue reading

A Federal Judge Ordered The Release Of “Making A Murderer’s” Brendan Dassey

The people of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin better start planning a “welcome home” parade full of marching kittens and WWE stars for 27-year-old Brendan Dassey, because it looks like he could be released from the chokey very soon. Back in September, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Duffin overturned Brendan’s murder conviction and declared that investigators pulled some shady shit by interrogating a 16-year-old without an adult present and pretty much coerced a confession out of him by making false promises. Everybody who pulled their pubes in frustration while watching every painful second of Brendan getting majorly fucked in a bad way in Making A Murderer let out a cheer, and they can keep cheering, because his prison cell door will soon swing open and out he’ll go.

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Wisconsin’s Attorney General ls Trying To Keep Brendan Dassey In Jail

Apparently no one at the Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office subscribes to Netflix. In “a continuing travesty of justice” news, Wisconsin AG Brad Schimel has filed an appeal to reverse the August 12th ruling that overturned Making A Murderer subject Brendan Dassey’s conviction for murder. Dassey and his uncle, Making A Murderer’s other subject Steven Avery, were sentenced to life in prison in 2007 for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach. Er, why is this happening exactly?

(via ABC News)

“We believe the magistrate judge’s decision that Brendan Dassey’s confession was coerced by investigators, and that no reasonable court could have concluded otherwise, is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law,” Schimel said in a statement. “Two state courts carefully examined the evidence and properly concluded that Brendan Dassey’s confession to sexually assaulting and murdering Teresa Halbach with his uncle, Steven Avery, was voluntary, and the investigators did not use constitutionally impermissible tactics.”

I guess we didn’t watch the same documentary? Netflix’s docu-series Making A Murderer CLEARLY depicted Dassey, who was 17 at the time of his conviction and reportedly has some intellectual deficiencies, being railroaded into confessing to a murder he didn’t commit by police detectives and the DA’s office. The legal system couldn’t have fucked with this poor dude any more unless they physically drove an actual bus over him in front of the police station. Making A Murderer is basically a horror movie.

Dassey has to remain in jail until the outcome of the appeal. I’m still on the fence as to the uncle’s involvement, but it’s pretty much agreed upon by anyone who isn’t a corrupt political official in Wisconsin that they should let Brendan out to live in peace and watch WWE.

Pic: Netflix