I just re-watched the end of Episode 5, which is pretty much when Sturm is on the stand recounting how she found the car. "God showed us the way," etc. By her own account she entered the yard at 9:50am, and yet somehow found the Rav4 at around 10:20-10:25am. That's just 30-35 minutes. She found this one car, in a…

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And because he was a minor child, with a low IQ, the law in most jurisdictions stipulates that investigators can't question him unless he has a parent, guardian, or legal counsel with him. It's a protection against coerced confessions. Without their presence anything he says, or, more to the point, is compelled to…

Agreed. My impression is that they were essentially directed to the car. Again, why did Deputy (now Detective Lieutenant, Lenk's old job) Colburn call in the plate number for a car he shouldn't be seeing yet, on the 3rd? The whole car, it's discovery, and as a crime scene, smells rotten to me.

I was under the impression that they also couldn't really bring up the details of the 1985 wrongful conviction, which sort of hamstrung their "framing defense". They seemed to be limited in scope to the lawsuit depositions. If the jury hears about how the same department essentially framed Steven Avery 20 years…

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