Indefensible, Michael Griesbach
Indefensible, Michael Griesbach
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Indefensible
The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

Author: Michael Griesbach

Narrator: James Foster

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/30/2016


Synopsis

An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer—and argues persuasively that Steven Avery was rightfully convicted in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach.After serving eighteen years for a crime he didn’t commit, Steven Avery was freed—and filed a thirty-six-million-dollar lawsuit against Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. But before the suit could be settled, Avery was arrested again—this time for the brutal murder of Teresa Halbach—and, through the office of a special prosecutor, convicted once more.When the saga exploded onto the public consciousness with the airing of Making a Murderer, Michael Griesbach, a prosecutor and member of Wisconsin’s Innocence Project who had been instrumental in Avery’s 2003 exoneration, was targeted on social media, threatened—and plagued by doubt. Now, in this suspenseful, thorough narrative, he recounts his own re-examination of the evidence in light of the whirlwind of controversy stirred up by the blockbuster true-crime series.As Griesbach carefully reviews allegations of tampering and planted evidence, the confession by Avery’s developmentally disabled nephew, Brendan Dassey, and statements by Avery’s former girlfriend Jodi Stachowski, previously sealed documents deemed inadmissible at trial by Judge Patrick L. Willis—and a little-known, plausible alternate suspect—Griesbach shows how the filmmakers’ agenda, the accused man’s dramatic backstory, and sensational media coverage have clouded the truth about Steven Avery.Now as Avery’s defense counsel files an appeal and prepares to do battle in the courtroom once more, Griesbach fights to set the record straight, determined that evidence should be followed where it leads and justice should be served—for as surely as our legal system should not send an innocent man to prison, neither should it let a guilty man walk free.

About Michael Griesbach

Michael Griesbach is a longtime Wisconsin prosecutor and active member of the board of advisers at the Wisconsin Innocence Project. He is a frequent presenter and panelist on the topic of wrongful convictions and their causes. He has also presented on other topics concerning the criminal justice system and its need for reform. Mr. Griesbach is the author of the widely acclaimed, The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath, published by the American Bar Association in 2014. He hopes to leave his readers better informed about the criminal justice system and more concerned about those whose lives it deeply


Reviews

Steven Avery killed Teresa Halbach. I was pretty sure of it after watching Making a Murderer, and I'm 100% sure of it having read this book. More precisely, I'm 100% sure of it after reading the final 80 pages of this 230-page book, the first 150 pages of which are pure filler written at a ninth-grad......more

Goodreads review by Jill

Should've been titled "The Unmaking of a Documentary." Interesting to see the sleight-of-hand performed by some very gifted documentary makers in depicting a previously wrongly-convicted man as the victim of a shady/corrupt/inept/vengeful law enforcement operation in his current conviction as a murd......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

I was sucked into the Making A Murderer drama when it came out. As with everyone else I questioned the conviction but before I made me decision I did my research and the direction the show went was very one sided. This book takes all the facts into account. I can't believe the amount of people who w......more

Goodreads review by Keith

There can be spoilers...just be aware....I read this because I ...like so many...saw the Netflix series...and knowing how things can be slanted one direction felt it was only fair to see the other side...Right from the beginning Griesback states over and over how he was going to be impartial...and a......more

Goodreads review by Christy

Let me just say...I only got through two episodes of the the documentary and as fascinating as it was at first? All I kept thinking was... wrongfully convicted for a second time? Nope. Noway. I'm actually glad I picked up this book at the library. Your always told there are two sides to every story......more