We've Become a House Divided. Thanks, Making a Murderer!

My wife and I are not seeing eye to eye on this whole "Making a Murderer" thing. Is it like this on YOUR household? This story was HUGE news when we lived in Wisconsin. This was all we heard about on the news for a long time and to be honest, both my wife and I thought Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey were as guilty as sin. The evidence we saw (on the news at least) was pretty overwhelming, it seemed. Then, along comes, "Making a Murderer."

Even after seeing the Netflix Documentary (Or docu-drama, if you feel so compelled to use that term) my wife still believes in their guilt. Unwavering and often angrily disputing it with me. Me, on the other hand, I am not entirely convinced.

I'm not saying they're innocent by any means but what I AM saying is it seemed like there was enough REASONABLE DOUBT to find them not guilty. The officers involved in his original wrongful conviction on the rape charges, should NEVER have been allowed anywhere near the Avery property, let alone inside his house and garage during the Halbach investigation.

Now, with that being said, do they deserve to be pardoned? No. And these people calling for the President to pardon them, it's not going to happen. It CAN'T happen. This is not a federal case. This is a STATE case and the only one that CAN pardon him is Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin and he already said he's not pardoning anyone.

What I think they DO deserve is a re-trial. They've apparently exhausted all their appeals but I think a special exception should be made because, again, there is a LOT of reasonable doubt to warrant a re-trial and Dassey's testimony, in my opinion, shouldn't count because it was without a lawyer or parent or guardian present and he was under 18 at the time and let's be honest, he's not the sharpest tool in the box. He seemed to be more worried about getting out of the interrogation room to turn an assignment in or to see a WWE wrestling match and in his mind, he probably thought, "Well, I'll just tell them what they want to hear and then I can go home." Not only that but the officer seemed to suggest to Dassey what happened and he agreed because he wanted to go home. This isn't the first time a "child" that was being questioned by authorities without proper representation lied to an officer so they could get out of the situation.

Anyway, I'm sure people are sick of hearing about this but I don't think it's going away anytime soon.