The media storm surrounding Netflix's highly tweetableMaking a Murderer docuseries continues, this time with some predictably enlightening thoughts from Steven Avery's defense attorneys. Though we've heard from the series' directors regarding their post-Netflix feelings on Avery's innocence (including a direct challenge to the state's handling of Avery's trial), and we've certainly heard plenty from those insisting that the series omitted purportedly shocking evidence in the prosecutors' favor, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting's appearance onCBS This Morning marks their first joint interview since Making a Murderer debuted.
"I'm not convinced of his guilt," Strang says, a statement firmly in line with remarks from director Laura Ricciardi. "If it was okay to convict people on maybes, I wouldn’t be worried about this. [But] it's not." Though Strang reveals that he "absolutely" has doubts regarding Avery's innocence, he insists that a simple guilty / innocent argument is simply not the point. "I think his best hope lies in newly discovered evidence," Strang says of revived attempts at proving that Avery was framed by Manitowoc County authorities.
Speaking directly to the flurry of criticism aimed at the 10-hour series' decision to condense what was originally a "200 hour" trial, Buting wastes no words when highlighting the apparent embellishment of such claims. "The state is now trying to make that a lot of these pieces that weren’t in the movie more sinister than they really were," Buting argues. "It's nonsense to say large parts of the state’s case were left out." Pointing specifically to evidence suggesting Avery placed calls to Teresa Halbach's phone on the day of her alleged murder, Buting adds that Avery's call to Halbach's office to schedule an appointment was also omitted. "Why would you call the office and create a paper trail?" Buting asks. "You would just call her directly and no one would ever know that she had come there. He went through the office."
Buting also spoke extensively with Rolling Stone in a separate interview, going further into detail regarding evidence and additional details left out of Making a Murderer, including the alleged burning of Halbach's corpse:
Read the full interview here.
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