Making A Murderer

Maybe it was the wrong guy, but it could have still been a benefit to society.

The guys who were executed surely weren't great guys. Many innocent lives were likely saved by killing them.

 

They definitely locked up the wrong Lena.

 

Old Tony know about this?

 

I'm sitting through a one-hour continuing legal education class on innocence cases this afternoon. Really wish Old Tony was here with me to learn about how people might have been wrongfully convicted.

 

I fully understand that people might be wrongfully convicted. Stephen Avery wasn't wrongfully convicted for the murder of Teresa Halbach.

 

Oh, really.

 

"Might be."

 

There's no maybe about it. There have been hundreds of documented wrongful convictions, and likely thousands that are not documented. My use of "might have been" above was a sarcastic reference to your ongoing refusal to admit that there is no doubt they occur.

 

Interesting, considering I have already said they do occur. Ask Gary Dotson about that.

 

This is the first time you've said they "do" occur. But, to be fair, it's not your job to know.

 

Let me refresh your recollection. In direct response to this question from Dick: "OK. But in the last 30 years, do you think that anyone in the United States has been wrongfully convicted?" You wrote the following:

And never altered that position when challenged.

 

Why should I change that position without being presented anything to counter it? Dick was trying to trap me with the Avery rape conviction, which was actually 31 years ago, not "in the last 30 years."