Watch the Netflix doc “Making a Murderer.” Tell me if it doesn’t make you want to murder this attention whoring, shit stain excuse of a person, and wretched member of the bar. If it doesn’t, you are made of stronger stuff than me.
I have been hamstrung and laid up for a few days, on account of tearing my hamstring last week. Apparently, I am an honorary member of the Seahawks’ running game. Anyway, Casey and I binged on this doc over the weekend, and it was extraordinarily horrifying.
I am no stranger to the fallibility of our legal system. It is, frankly, difficult to shock and horrify me with stories of injustice. It isn’t a justice system, to say the very least, and money usually determines outcomes. This, however, is not the typical story of injustice visited upon poor defendants, although that was certainly at play. This is a story about the power of the government to take lives through abjectly, objectively, and startlingly brazen methods, and how this is accomplished through the propaganda and rhetoric that the cops and the courts are the good guys.
This picture of actual human garbage was Brendan Dassey’s attorney. His name is Len Kachinsky. I don’t believe there will ever be justice in this case, so if I am to hope for anything resembling karmic retribution, it is for this man to forever lose his law license, and to be represented by an attorney whose sense of ethics mirrors his own.