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At the risk of only reporting<\/a> Making a Murderer<\/em> case updates, we\u2019ve got another Making a Murderer <\/em>case update. Steven Avery\u2019s purported accomplice and WrestleMania aficionado<\/a> Brendan Dassey was thisclose <\/em>to leaving prison, but now it looks like he\u2019ll be staying there for a while.<\/p>\n

On Friday, a federal appeals court narrowly ruled<\/a> that Dassey\u2019s confession should not be thrown out. In the majority opinion, Judge David Hamilton said the \u201cinterrogation took place in a comfortable setting, without any physical coercion or intimidation, without even raised voices, and over a relatively brief time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a bizarre explanation, Hamilton also said that \u201cDassey provided many of the most damning details himself in response to open-ended questions.\u201d You may recall that a different federal judge ruled over the summer<\/a> that his confession was in fact coerced, citing a desire to please the detectives and signs of fact-feeding by investigators Mark Wiegert and Tom Fassbender.<\/p>\n

In \u201cPlight of the Accused,\u201d the third episode of Netflix\u2019s Making a Murderer<\/em>, we see video of then-16-year-old Brendan\u2019s confession, and it\u2019s pretty difficult to watch. It\u2019s fairly clear that Dassey \u2014 who is borderline intellectually impaired \u2014 is prodded into saying what Wiegart and Fassbender want to hear. He ultimately decides Teresa Halbach was shot after one of the investigators says, \u201cShe was shot, wasn\u2019t she?\u201d Before this, details in Dassey\u2019s story had radically changed multiple times.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, the dissenting opinion for the current ruling is pretty scathing. Judge Ilana Rovner wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cDassey was subjected to myriad psychologically coercive techniques but the state court did not review his interrogation with the special care required by Supreme Court precedent. His confession was not voluntary and his conviction should not stand, and yet an impaired teenager is sentenced to life in prison.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(I\u2019d like to imagine each word was written with clapping hands emoji between them.)<\/p>\n

Dassey\u2019s attorneys say they plan to appeal to the Supreme Court, which given its track record as of late doesn\u2019t look promising. Dassey, now 28, will be eligible for parole in 2048, just in time for a\u00a0WrestleMania 5000 ladder match between seven-term President Dwayne Johnson and a hologram of Andre the Giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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