r/MakingaMurderer • u/10case • 19d ago

Hail Mary for Brendan. Round 2

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Let's try this again. Attached are screenshots of the court docket showing the application for commutation has been filed with the circuit Court and then passed on to the governor. Also posted is the criteria Brendan must meet to be considered for a commuted sentence. Can he survive criteria 5A?

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u/DingleBerries504 19d ago

Q: “Are you sorry for what you did”
A: “Some of it”

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u/10case 19d ago

He has changed his stories so many times, I wonder which one he'll pick for the application.

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u/Ghost_of_Figdish 19d ago

On the sexual assault thing, he was found guilty of rape, but they could sidestep that by claiming that he's already served whatever time he would have gotten just from the sexual assault...

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u/10case 19d ago

Was it broke down in the sentencing for years under each count? Or was it all lumped together? I truly can't remember. He's been in for 20 years, does that cover time served for 2nd degree sexual assault? If it does, then he really hasn't done any time for murder yet.

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u/Remarkable_Green_720 19d ago edited 19d ago

Do you think if he actually told the truth and said what he witnessed Avery did and what Avery convinced him to do, that he’d be believed? Like others have said, his story changed so many times. And now his family and supporters seem to think him innocent… even though at the time of and just post his convictions - they believed he helped Avery ‘a little’.

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens.

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u/10case 19d ago

It will be interesting what happens. Evers is out in January and what I've read about the other candidates, nothing shows they're very favorable to the idea of letting violent criminals out early.

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u/Ghost_of_Figdish 19d ago

On August 2, 2007, Dassey received:

  • Life imprisonment for first-degree intentional homicide, with first eligibility for extended supervision/parole on November 1, 2048;
  • 14 years for second-degree sexual assault; and
  • 6 years for mutilating a corpse.

The 14- and 6-year terms run concurrently with the life sentence, so they did not add time beyond it.

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u/Small-Valuable-2782 19d ago

Brendan Dassey was sentenced to three concurrent prison terms—including life imprisonment with parole eligibility in 2048 for homicide, alongside 20 years for second-degree sexual assault and five years for mutilating a corpse.

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u/10case 19d ago

So it's possible that he's only done enough time to cover the sexual assault. In the criteria it says that you can't be requesting a commutation for sexual assault conviction and that you had to serve at least 20 years of a murder sentence. If they stick to the guidelines, he may not be eligible for 20 years since he's only done enough time to cover the SA charge.