A Wisconsin judge has granted Brendan Dassey’s motion to be released from prison while his court proceedings continue. He will be on probation until all the proceedings are completed and is not allowed contact with Stephen Avery.
That is good news.
In local news, the jury just reached a verdict in the Ross Harris trial. Harris is the guy who left his kid in a hot car in the parking lot of his job and they boy died.
I am going to preface my thoughts by saying I did not watch very much of this trial. I did watch the ex-wife’s testimony and read a few other things and heard snippets of the proceedings on the radio.
I do not think Ross Harris is a good person at all. He is a sexual deviant whose goal appeared to be to have sex with as many “different kinds of women” that he could. He also exchanged sexual texts with underage girls. There are no obvious redeeming qualities about this man. There were church members who testified that they were providing him counseling for his sex addiction. So I suppose that was something. But I do not like Ross Harris.
That said, based on the parts of the trial I saw, I would not have found him guilty of murdering his son. The parts of the prosecutor’s case I heard failed to prove intent. That was the key to the case. Did he deliberately leave his son to die in the car. I heard a lot of evidence that indicated he had plans with his son in the future. They seemed to have a very good relationship. There were lots of videos of him playing with his son. I think he was overcharged. Way over charged. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison plus forty-two years.
The jury deliberated for four days. They all declined to speak to the media.
Have you been following these cases? Both are tragic.
I had a hard time with a few of the facts in the Ross trial as well-I’m glad I wasn’t on the jury and faced with that decision. I agree, he’s a tool. I know it’s hard to get past the knee jerk anger at the unnecessary and brutal death of a child but he was entitled to due process and a fair trial, both of which I feel he got.
Wasn’t there talk if the wife being somewhat involved?
I’m also one of those people who isn’t so sure sex addiction is a “thing”.
I watched it and although I tried to believe he wouldn’t intentionally leave his kid in the car, I couldn’t. If he thought enough of his son during the day to text his wife asking if she is going to pick “his buddy” up, wouldn’t that ring a bell? Oh, we had breakfast this morning and I forgot to drop him off at daycare in the 4 minute ride to work?
I’ve heard it said that dad’s don’t think of their children as often as mothers do and it’s different… Blah, blah. I call bullshit. Yes, they argued that he was preoccupied sending dick pics to other women through out the day, but I just don’t buy it.
I’m not entirely convinced that the state had enough evidence to find him guilty on these charges, but even though a jury should be impartial, the jury of 8 women ( if I remember correctly) didn’t buy what Ross Harris’ defense was selling. My hope is that baby rests in peace and the families find some peace as well.
I am so horrified by this guy. I can’t understand a baby being forgotten all those hours. From everything I’ve read here, it is evil.
Amazing but not shocking to think how Brendan Dassey would have been lost in the system, no one ever knowing who or why he was worth looking at twice. My biggest paranoia is ending up in prison falsely. It never used to be, but it could happen so easily. I saw an 48 hours over the weekend that went as far as the police trying to convince the wife of a murdererd husband her son wasn’t his, so she killed him. She had the family of her murdered husband going through this as well. Finally the police said, “oh the DNA was not the correct one, our bad” 13 years later they solved and at least made a phone call to tell her. Scary stuff!!
I could never decide on Avery’s guilt (although I believe he should have been retried,) but from the beginning, I was horrified and sad for Dassey. I believe that even had Stephen (Steven?) been guilty, and Brendan involved, he did not the have the mental capacity to be aware of/convicted for this crime. I think Avery is a shitbag who would’ve ended up in prison regardless- he is not a victim, regardless of his guilt here. But Brendan is a victim either way.
I can admit I know basically nothing of the Harris case, but I do know this- I am a parent. I have a toddler. There is nothing in this world that could distract me enough to forget that my child was in my care. Nothing. When you have a child, when you sign their birth certificate, you are responsible for their lives. If you end their life with your carelessness, you don’t deserve one yourself. Myself personally? If the cause of my child’s death was my own, I would prefer the death penalty.
Just got Netflix & cannot wait to watch Making a Murderer. I have read all of your posts on this case & look forward to seeing the evidence myself.
I read the daily updates of the ross Harris trail on the ajc and I was leaning towards definite guilt, then I read the defense’s case and I thought someone who loves their kid that much would never do that on purpose. Then I read the closing arguments and was leaning back to guilty. There were too many reminders of his son that day that I don’t see how he could have forgotten him in the car all day long. Particularly in the 4 minutes it took for him to leave chick fil a and get to work. Also, if he was planning on leaving his son in the car, I feel like he could have purposely left a trail to show that he was making plans with his son for the future to sort of have an alibi….like “look, I was researching getting my son a passport just last night. Why would I do that if I was planning to leave him in the car to die?” Same goes for why did he leave all his cheating behavior right there on his phone to be so easily found? So that he could say that he was distracted by sex stuff and that’s why he forgot about his son. So I would have no problem finding him guilty of negligent murder or whatever something like that is called. But definitely happy i wasn’t on the jury. That would’ve been a tough one.
Sigh. What a world we live in.
That’s all I’ve got. Sorry.
I only kept up with Harris case. I felt he was guilty all along as there were a few things that just did not add up. He did love his son but probably inconvenient to the life he ultimately wanted to lead. The suffering that poor lil boy went thru is purely heartbreaking.
The state filed an 11th hour motion to block Brendan’s release. He may or may not be released tomorrow. The prosecutor’s office claims that even if his confession was involuntary that doesn’t mean he didn’t murder anyone and should still be considered a public danger.
Guess he won’t be released.Sorry for him 🙁
Pending appeal locked up.