08-24-2016, 08:31 PM
(08-23-2016, 01:00 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: This is a case where because his IQ is so low, he truly may not know the difference between right and wrong.
I personally believe he does know that what he did was very wrong.
It'll be interesting to see if the Hallbach's want him prosecuted again.
One thing that the Netflix series left out is the content of Brendan's recorded calls to his mother. If the prosecution and family do decide to retry him, I wonder if they'll use them at the new trial since the taped confession you posted won't be admissible.
The day after his videotaped confession, Brendan called his mom. In that call, along with telling her they did it (this was before he recanted), he tells his mom he told police about how Steven used to touch him and it made him uncomfortable. She seems upset that he didn't tell her about it before and he seems confused because he didn't stop Steven.
He asks about what will happen if Steven gets pissed off if he takes her advice and tells the police how Steven made him participate in the killing and wonders how much trouble he'll get in for cleaning up reddish black stuff from the garage. He also talks about how Steven 'fake pumped' other boys in the family and alludes to some other sexual impropriety between Steven and a girl as well.
It would probably be difficult to use the call records though. A few months later, during his psych eval, he answered 'no' when asked if he'd ever been sexually assaulted and it's hard to tell what's fact or fiction from Dassey (who was deemed highly suggestible by the psychologist who evaluated him, with an IQ above competency level in the lower average range). Avery's new attorney denied the molestation allegations on his behalf a few months ago.
I'll be surprised if Brendan Dassey is retried even if prosecutors firmly believe he helped Steven Avery kill Teresa Halbach given Dassey's unreliability and the physical evidence tying back to only Avery (unless possibly if Teresa's family absolutely insists on it).
Refs:
Dassey calls transcripts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1nzus-...5uRTg/view
Dassey psych eval: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1nzus-...RfQ2s/view