Why Did Brenden Dassy Makeup The Story?

Fans of the Netflix show "Making a Murderer" haven't held their tongues in criticizing Brendan Dassey's lawyer, Len Kachinsky, and his strategies during the juvenile's initial defense force, only the public defender all the same insists nothing he did had whatsoever effect on the outcome of Dassey's case.

"Frankly, I'm not responsible for Dassey going to prison," Kachinsky told TheWrap. "You can say I fabricated a mistake, that I should've [attended] or I should have rescheduled the interview — that'due south valid criticism."

"Making a Murderer" follows the trial and conviction of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey in the murder of Teresa Halbach, which both Avery and Dassey say they didn't commit. Nevertheless, on Mar. 1, 2006, Dassey confessed in a lengthy interview that he was part of the brutal rape, torture and killing of Halbach, only to retract those statements over the intervening months.

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In multiple interviews with investigators and law enforcement thereafter — namely on May 12 and May thirteen — Dassey was being seemingly manipulated by investigators Michael O'Kelly, Tom Fassbender and Marker Wiegart into confessing. And Kachinsky, Dassey'southward appointed lawyer, was criticized for allowing his customer to exist interviewed without legal representation.

For those who oasis't seen "Making a Murderer," the Mar. one video shows Dassey beingness interviewed on a sofa over four and a half hours. The May 12 interrogation is led by Michael O'Kelly, who interviewed Dassey on behalf of Kachinsky. At this point, Dassey'south defense squad was trying to play into Dassey'southward perceived guilt to reduce his own culpability, making him the primary witness confronting Steven Avery. O'Kelly laid out photographs from the criminal offense scene and elicited a confession from Dassey, including a cartoon of what happened in Avery's trailer.

Soon after, O'Kelly calls Kachinsky reporting that the interview went "very well." He then asks whether he should make an appointment with state Department of Justice investigator Tom Fassbender, who along with Marker Wiegart afterward interviews Brendan on May 13. Kachinsky was not present for any of the interviews.

However, Kachinsky clarifies to TheWrap that the only interview used in trial was the Mar. 1 confession — one for which he wasn't present considering he didn't withal represent Dassey, who at the time wasn't a suspect. Kachinsky called criticism of him "unfair."

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"Mar. i, 2006, before being arrested, Dassey gives a 4-and-a-half-hour video tape confession to everything," Kachinsky said. "At that place is no other statement from Dassey that was admitted for this trial other than that one. The one with the investigators was unfortunately a piffling rough, but that was never used at Dassey'southward trial."

This is why Kachinsky believes that cipher he did — or didn't practice — had whatever upshot on the outcome of the trial.

"None of the stuff anyone has complained nigh, namely the O'Kelly interview and the ane with Fassbender which occurred in May, none of that was used in trial," he said.

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Still, Kachinsky admits that he made a mistake, and that he should have been there at the May 13 interrogation.

"I would have been there apart from the fact that I had Army Reserve duty the mean solar day they wanted to do the interview," he explained. "In xx/twenty hindsight, I should have asked them to delay the interview until the middle of the calendar week when I was going to exist able to make information technology … But information technology would have made no divergence in the consequence of Dassey's case."

'Making a Murderer': Where Are They Now? (Photos)

Ken Kratz: The Avery case prosecutor says he has overcome an addiction to prescription pain pills since the trial and gone through the public humiliation of a sexting scandal. He maintains his license and at present serves as a defence force attorney.
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Mike Halbach: The brother of murder victim Teresa Halbach has served every bit a Halbach family spokesperson is now the director of Football Engineering science for the Light-green Bay Packers.
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Sgt. Andrew Colburn is now Lt. Andrew Colburn. He holds the title in the Detective Division of the Manitowoc County Sheriff'south Office.
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Gregory Allen: Allen, who was plant to accept committed the rape for which Steven Avery spent 18 years backside bars, is serving a 60-year prison sentence for a 1995 sexual assault. He's up for parole in October 2016.
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Sheriff Tom Kocourek: Kocourek retired from his mail in 2001. He was named as a defendant in a $36 million federal lawsuit brought forrard by Avery.
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Angenette Levy: Levy, a journalist who garnered a lot of "Making A Murderer" playback attention for asking the tough questions, is now an on-air reporter for WKRC in Cincinnati.
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Aaron Keller: Levy, some other reporter, is now an English language/Communications professor at NHTI, Concord's Community College in New Hampshire.
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Dean Strang: Strang recently said that he occasionally speaks with Avery, his quondam client. The defense attorney is not shying away from the spotlight, and recently took part in a Facebook Q&A. The trial lawyer is a partner at Strang Bradley LLC in Madison.
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Denis Vogel: The ex-DA is now an attorney at Wheeler, Van Sickle and Anderson, South.C., where he concentrates on commercial litigation, with a focus on matters involving utilities, electricity apply and distribution, and cellular telecommunication.
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Steven Avery: Well, he's in jail -- the Waupun Correctional Institute, to be verbal.
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Brendan Dassey: On August 12, 2016, a federal judge overturned his 2007 conviction for first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse. Avery's nephew had been sentenced to Avery's nephew sentenced to life with no parole for 41 years for Halbach's murder.
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Sheriff Ken Peterson: Peterson retired as Manitowoc County sheriff in 2007, merely 2 years afterward he now-famously told a Television set station information technology would have been "a whole lot easier to eliminate [Avery] than it would to frame him."
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Barb Tadych: Brendan's mom has publicly kept a depression profile since all the "Making a Murderer" hype began. Tadych appears to remain in the expanse, as her well-nigh recent social media check-in was at a Center for Diagnostic Imaging in Appleton, Wis.
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Sandy Greenman: Information technology appears that Avery and Greenman are still an item. Per what appears to be her Facebook folio, Greenman visited Avery in prison equally recently as Monday.
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James Lenk: Lenk has managed to go along one of the everyman profiles of the unabridged "Making A Murderer" gang. It is unclear whether has a Netflix subscription.
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Jodi Stachowski: Steven's ex-fiancee has had some legal troubles. In Apr 2007, she was found guilty of using worthless checks. She was arrested three times in 2009. Since and then, Stachowski has stayed out of major criminal trouble.
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