Wisconsin DoJ Maintains Silence on Steven Avery Wrongful Conviction

Madison, Wisconsin — There is not a specific crime in the Wisconsin Criminal Code for a police frame-up committed for the purpose of wrongfully citing, arresting and convicting an innocent.

Police routinely engage in lying, character assassination and frame-ups in fabricating false police reports, testilying (purjury) and evidence manipulation.

But it takes a particularly insular, corrupt and self-entitled department to manufacture and destroy evidence for the purpose of a murder frame-up—Manitowoc County, for example. The Wisconsin Dept of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation is another.

But for Wisconsin's top law enforcement official, there's nothing to see here.

Faced with the discredited work of the disgraced Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz (1992-2010) that resulted in the wrongful convictions of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, Attorney General Joshua Kaul (D) has chosen to defend Kratz and others' dishonesty, evidence concealment and destruction by first avoiding even a mention of these acts of state lawlessness in post-conviction litigation, and now engaging in silence before the Manitowoc County Circuit Court to which Wisconsin v. Avery has been remanded.

Kaul also chose silence when two appellate attorneys representing the DoJ were caught red-handed trying to deceive Avery's attorneys and the Court in an errantly placed phone call in February 2019.

The State's silence is deafening. Not so easy to unring the bell of evidence destruction. @lifeafterten @Newsweek @BBCWorld @michellemalkin #MakingAMurderer2 #RunningbutnotHiding

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) March 26, 2019

Kaul has chosen silence because he cannot credibly defend lawlessness.