Posted on 10/20/2016 3:01:53 PM PDT by BBell
$400,000 is an enormous amount of money in a small jurisdiction like that.
I would clear my calendar for the year for a $400,000 murder trial.
As a reminder, my jab at Wisconsin was mainly due to the John Doe raids.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/15/wisconsin-john-doe-leak-exposes-democrats-contempt-law/
Enormous amount for Avery, if he had been free to spend it like he wanted.
The two lawyers, though, were probably accustomed to higher living standards along with the accompanying higher costs. Weren’t they big city lawyers? Can’t remember, but most of them are, since they don’t like to live near junkyard scrap dealers as far as I know. Property values, scenery, you know the deal.
Not that I begrudge them their money. They’re entitled to it, most of the time. It’s just when they come to a sleepy little podunk town with good old boys in charge, they have, as you call it, an uphill battle. Steep uphill.
By the way, for the record my wife is an associate attorney, with 25 years of experience just at her current firm - almost 10 more years at another one before that.
The lawyer she works for now lives WAY beyond his means, so much so that he has trouble paying the two employees he’s got. And his firm brings in 7 figures a year in a relatively backwater place.
Taking a famous defendant in a high profile murder appeal didn't hurt the firm's drawing power, either, I'm sure. But Dassey, on the other hand, was a dumb kid with neither money nor notoriety.
So conspiracy was the route they took.
The problem is, that their conspiracy involves two jurisdictions and the FBI crime lab.
procedurally the case was screwed up all over the place.
Which the system is trying to remedy. That doesn't make Dassey innocent.
As for Avery, in my reply elsewhere here, I do not even touch on the evidence that the conspiracy theorists working on his behalf consider controversial: the bullet with the victims DNA, the car, the keys, EDTA, the supposed lack of blood evidence at the scene... Avery, Netflix and other various enablers cannot dispute the timeline, the contact, the fact that he was the last person to see her alive, her remains on his premises, and the testimony of his own relatives.
Discounting all of the "controversial" material, there is still enough of a case to be made.
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