Another day, another crop of Making A Murderer stories. On the heels of Steven Avery filing yet another appeal, armed with a new legal team, more controversy has developed to possibly help or hinder Avery’s case.
Rolling Stone magazine interviewed Avery’s attorney, Jerry Buting, who hasn’t spoken since the documentary aired, about his concerns over the jury in Avery’s murder trial. He told the magazine, “I’ve still got my suspicions about whether something improper occurred during the deliberations.”
When asked about his suspicions, Buting said, “I suspected that there might’ve been some undue pressure put — either from within the jury room or outside the jury room — that might’ve affected the fairness of each individual juror’s deliberation. And one of the jurors who actually sat through the verdict has since, apparently — I have not spoken to him or her — but they came forward and spoke to the filmmakers and felt like they were intimidated and pressured to vote guilty, and that they really didn’t think he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and they really did think that the police had framed him.”
In the interview, Buting also discussed one of the jurors, who reportedly volunteered for the Manitowoc Sheriff’s Department. When asked why the juror was not dismissed, Buting recognized the issue and said, “Some of the observers or commentators have noted: ‘Well, why would you keep somebody like that on the jury’ What people don’t understand is that picking a jury is really — it’s not like you pick who you want. It’s a matter of eliminating who you don’t want.”
