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Show up. that was clearly a mistake. this is huge, though. you ve got a 16-year-old kid with a low iq, with no attorney present, no parent. it s kind of like feeding someone to the wolves in a way. would you apologize to brendan dassey? well i d apologize to him for not being at the interview. there were mistakes made? sure. but none of them contributed to the condemning of dassey s case. there are people who disagree with that. sure. but as dassey s attorneys dealt further into those stunning statements the team made, they came to believe something more disturbing. investigators tom fassbender and mark wiegert had coerced the teen into making a false confession. these officers took advantage of a disabled youth, and got him to say what they wanted him to say. don t lie to us now, okay? come on. what happened? ....
People who made you part of a speck discussion about false confessions, and who were yelling at their tvs because they didn t like the job you did? just that it s easy to arm chair quarterback, it s easy to second guess. that i, you know, that s partly why i m here, to explain there was nothing nefarious done. but even fassbender wonders if everything dassey set in the confession was true. we didn t try to manipulate brendan. we try to get out the truth. i don t believe it was a false confession. other parts of it he may have not done? i don t know. you know, i just don t know. in august of 2016, a federal judge weighed in with a bombshell, in response to a brief filed by dassey s attorneys, judge duffin ruled dassey s confession was involuntary. with that, the judge overturned ....
Or what he wanted to hear. here with our story is andrea canning. the steven avery saga shed light on the other defendants in the case, brendan dassey. the teenager had been convicted of rape and murder. to his family, none of it ever made any sense. is brendan someone capable of rape? no. i don t even think he knew what that was at the time. in 2008, attorneys steven and lauren took up his appeal. they saw a mentally challenged teen with a low iq. what did you think of brendan dassey when you re able to meet him in person? brandon is a simple soul. struck by his humanity. this is not somebody i could see committing a crime like this. that s the psychological power of interrogation. the two attorneys are based at the northwestern university school of law in chicago. ....
Welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. investigators deny they framed steven avery for the murder of teresa halbach. after all, his nephew, brendan, confessed. here with more of our story is andrea canning. all the renewed attention in the steven avery saga has shed light on the other defendant in the case brendan dassey. the teenager had been convicted of rape and murder, but to his family, none of it ever made any sense. is brendan someone capable of rape? no. no. i don t even think he knew what that was at the time. in 2008, attorneys took up dassey s case for his appeal. ....
If everything dassey said in the confession was true. we didn t try to manipulate brendan. we tried to get at the truth. and i don t believe that it was a false confession. are there parts of it that he may have not done? i don t know. you know, i just don t know. in august of 2016, a federal judge weighed in with a bombshell. in response to a brief filed by dassey s attorneys, judge william duffin ruled that brendan dassey s confession was involuntary. with that, the judge overturned his conviction and ordered dassey to be released from prison. what was that like for you, hearing that news? mixed emotions. i know we did everything above board, that one magistrate rules that it isn t fine, in his ....