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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This is just the sort of vapid, intuitive guesswork that led to the aggressive investigation and prosecution of Brendon Dassey.
How Hillegas "looked," the pattern of his "eye movements," and his "inflection" are completely irrelevant to this case. There are any untold number of reasons why he would appear "nervous and guilty as sin" while sitting under examination and cross-examination in a courtroom during the proceedings of a high profile case. The fact that his answers were "calculated" more likely has something to do with the coaching and advice that he received from prosecutors before taking to the stand.
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Agreed. It has to come down the evidence. Not hearsay and especially not persuasive oration and conjecture.
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