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Originally Posted by Who Is She?

I would never willingly disagree with you Ammi (except for now) but if I'm completely honest he deserved the 18 years he 'wrongfully served' for the burning the family cat to death alone.

Yeah I did find myself unable to have much sympathy... he set a ****ing cat on fire. On fire! And he talks about it so passively like "Oh yeah derp I set the cat on fire dat was silly derp derp what a silly kid...". wut??

Howeverrrr...

Originally Posted by Josy

the most important thing to me is that both him and brendan recieve a fair trial and the real killer is found even if it is him.

This is why it's caught my interest anyway. I'm not really interested in what happens to Avery. Brendan I do have more sympathy for because I think he is clearly significantly disabled and has been treated abysmally. But the main points are:

- Regardless of what Avery does or doesn't "deserve", the actions of the people involved in the investigation and in pressing the charges are fascinating, and terrifying. There is such blatant corruption, lying and tampering. Such power-tripping. That needs to be explored... their involvement needs to be laid bare because whether or not Avery is guilty, that department is a shambles, and it probably reflects on the entire small-town system in the US.

and secondly,

- If Avery isn't guilty, even though I don't feel particularly bad for HIM being locked up... him going down for that crime means that a killer is still out there.