When your defense theory is that the police set you up because they have a beef, you’re climbing a serious up hill battle. Are there some crooked cops? Yes. But no reasonable juror is going to believe that there was a vast conspiracy among the Sheriff’s office to lock a guy back up over a conviction from 20+ years ago. A jury is just not going to buy that.
If I recall, I believe he paid his lawyers with money from his settlement. The lawyers probably thought, well, here’s a big pot of money, so we’ve got to come up with something to defend this guy (And yes, I’m a lawyer so I can tell you that money does talk). So conspiracy was the route they took.
My problem is that procedurally the case was screwed up all over the place. They should have given Dassey a Miranda Warning, and the logs and investigation should have been tightened up. But, this is what you get in small jurisdictions.
If I recall, I believe he paid his lawyers with money from his settlement. The lawyers probably thought, well, here’s a big pot of money...
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From a possible 8 million dollars, Avery had to settle for $400,000 to pay the attorneys. Not that big a pot for fancy lawyers. Saved the state a lot of money, though.
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.