Poll: Steven Avery

[wasapi]

Brendan is innocent. Steve looks pretty bad but I am not convinced beyond doubt he did it. If I accept planting of evidence, he has to be released whether he is guilty or not.

While I mostly agree with your statement, I do feel more strongly about Avery's guilt. I would put money on it. However, I believe that he has to be released. Evidence has been planted, contaminated, mitigated, and is therefore useless in a court of law.

It is an odd place, an odd state of mind for me to deal with. In every case I've ever followed, and there have been many, when I feel such certainty about guilt, even with certain technicalities off kilter, I want the offender incarcerated. This time I feel the correct thing to do is to release him, regardless of guilt.

I just wish that when released, there really was the existence of swift-karma.

 

[Samson]

I vote Brendan innocent and Steve more innocent than Brendan.
I have seen few people change their minds in the course of case discussions on line. The exception was the Lundy case where Atheist was a convert to innocent. Everyone abandoned the guilt vote with time. He only has 8 of 20 left to serve.

 

[DragonLady]

While I mostly agree with your statement, I do feel more strongly about Avery's guilt. I would put money on it. However, I believe that he has to be released. Evidence has been planted, contaminated, mitigated, and is therefore useless in a court of law.

It is an odd place, an odd state of mind for me to deal with. In every case I've ever followed, and there have been many, when I feel such certainty about guilt, even with certain technicalities off kilter, I want the offender incarcerated. This time I feel the correct thing to do is to release him, regardless of guilt.

I just wish that when released, there really was the existence of swift-karma.

I'm right there with you. I'm not sure I'd put any money on it, but I do believe he is probably guilty, and I have a lot of conflicting feelings about calling for a new trial, because I don't want to let a murderer go free. But, I also don't want innocent people in jail.

I don't like to think the criminal justice system isn't just. We have to send a strong message that questionable evidence, or failure to fully and completely investigate crimes will be met with lawsuits, impeachments, and other sanctions.

Further, I don't like the feeling the real victim here - Theresa - is being victimized all over again by either allowing her killer to still be out there (possibly making more victims) or that he will be freed because they failed to follow the proper procedures.