Nebulous Plea Deals
On Monday, 29 January 2007, when Special Prosecutor Ken Kratz announced an imminent plea deal with Brendan Dassey, my thought was why would Dassey plea to anything.
Nothing has been found to tie him to any activity in Steven Avery’s home or garage. His confession, publicized by Kratz before any corroboration, detailed violent and bloody activity in both locations over hours. This activity would have left a multitude of evidence. There are too many missing pieces.
Nothing has been found in Avery’s home to place the murder victim, Teresa Halbach, there. The key which started her van was discovered in Avery’s home in plain sight only after several prior searches.
A bullet fragment from Avery’s garage said to contain Halbach’s blood, was found rather late in the investigation.
No blood patterns indicating a person was shot were found in Halbach’s SUV. So far, no bullet evidence has been claimed to be part of the corpse found in the Avery fire pit.
So what Kratz has is two investigators who will testify that Dassey gave them a confession, but somehow the evidence has gone missing. The badgering and guiding of the youth is supposed to be as good as the real evidence.
Back in March 2006, Dassey’s then attorney Len Kachinsky announced that a plea deal was possible but Kratz played the possibility close to the vest.
Now, because of the Kratz announcement about a possible plea deal, Dassey’s present lawyer, Mark Fremgen, has let it be known that there is no plea deal. One was offered, but turned down.
Unless Kratz is going to pull a bunch of evidence out a hat, there is no need for bargaining. I wouldn’t be surprised to see charges against Dassey dropped.
by Brian McCorkle
in category Brendan Dassey
