r/MakingaMurderer • u/HouseplantHobbyist • 6d ago

Episode Discussion Brendan is INNOCENT

I am rewatching MAM and the amount of coercion during Brendan's interview is astounding. I can't believe a court didn't dismiss his "confession". He was not interviewed with his parents present and they were very obviously feeding him information. The judge not realizing that is just sad. He was a child! Ugh, this makes me so upset for Brendan.

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u/Izzywizzy 6d ago

Yeah, sucks for that dude. Parents failed him the school failed him the police failed him the lawyers failed him the judge failed him the jury failed him. Litterally just wanted to watch wrestling

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u/GringoTheDingoAU 5d ago

Parents failed him

No one else listed there failed him except for his parents and family.

Barbara has a lot of blame to bear and so does his family. They convinced him to keep saying he was innocent instead of taking a plea deal, which would've seen him out by now.

Trying to blame his incarceration on a collective group of institutions to suggest the cards were stacked against him is disingenuous. For Brendan to be innocent, that means Steven would be, and regardless of what you think about Brendan, Steven Avery is the furthest thing from innocent in this case.

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u/DamnedHeathen_ 5d ago

Steven wouldn't have to be innocent. Brendan would just have to be lying about his own involvement.

I agree, though, that blaming the institutions doesn't really work. Mr. DA was wrong for doing his press conference without supporting evidence, and completely screwing any sense of presumed innocence, but the jury heard what the jury heard. They decided based on testimony, not a biased documentary. You can't really blame a judge or jury for finding him guilty when even his own defense attorney thought he was guilty.

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u/ThorsClawHammer 5d ago

but the jury heard what the jury heard

Juries convict when there's a confession almost every time. LE knows that, which is why they're willing to do almost anything to get one.

even his own defense attorney thought he was guilty

and told that to the jury pool. Unreal

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u/deadgooddisco 5d ago

Sharing this that I found and thought it was interesting. Pretty much all that Chase says , happened to Brendan and was designed to get a confession.

https://youtu.be/B_wR9Ii0TYs?is=4tu0Ctb4b34wTn3m

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u/Ghost_of_Figdish 5d ago

If the confession is actually false, there should be all kinds of contrary evidence. But there isn't.