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God Hole
Mar 2, 2016

Combat Pretzel posted:

Question is whether the pills made him text that, or he's being a shitbag regardless. Because sure as poo poo know people that'd be this inappropriate without drugs.

precision posted:

Kratz was on Xanax, right? I've been on that, and on Valium, and I can definitely say that taking large doses of benzos can make you do things you wouldn't normally do, and also don't remember doing.

Exactly, like how we give free passes to people who kill others while drunk driving, because they probably wouldn't have done it sober.

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precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
If you think I was defending Kratz you haven't been paying attention.

LaptopGun
Sep 2, 2006

All I'm going to get out of him is a snappy one-liner and, if I'm real lucky, a brand new nickname.
Sorry to bump up the thread, but the state of Wisconsin's appeal for vacating Dassey's sentence was heard last month. At least 2 of the 3 judge's hearing the case challenged the deputy solicitor for Wisconsin parrot the party line that there were no questions about Dassey's interrogation. The third judge doubted detectives were changing Dassey's will to speak despite the Miranda warnings. There hasn't been a lot of media coverage of the hour hearing so you may find these stories interesting. The stories don't really cover Dassey's lawyers argument (probably because we all know it by now). I am not legal expert and the vast majority of my knowledge federal appeals court comes from being a Patriots fan... cough... Deflategate...cough. It's the judges' job to grill both sides' attorneys and go beyond legal briefs. You can't read too much into the judges behavior and line of questioning, but it sounds like Dassey got a fair hearing unlike his original trial.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2017/02/14/chicago-appeals-court-consider-brendan-dassey-conviction-making-murderer-case/97880018/

http://www.wisn.com/article/fight-to-free-brendan-dassey-moves-to-federal-appeals-court/8807195

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-brendan-dassey-7th-circuit-0215-chicago-inc-20170214-story.html

An audio recording of the hearing also ended up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y5-S2K29waU

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