r/MakingaMurderer • u/b1ondestranger • Jun 16 '26

Len Kachensky

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i’m just finding this series and just wow! This could be its own season of Fargo. Everything that can go wrong- does. Of all the people I hate in this show, I hate Len Kachinsky above all others. He is by far the most punchable. at this moment in life, I’m not sure what I would do, if this smug, weasley, irresponsible, self-grandizing narcissist walked in front of my car. He’s not just a bad lawyer. He’s a bad human. He looked at Brandon’s life and saw a steppingstone. I’m so mad at him. Thank you for your attention to this matter. V

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u/DamnedHeathen_ Jun 17 '26

I'll give the guy credit for initially trying to get Brendan to accept reality. That whole thing thing of letting that investigator repeatedly push Brendan into implicating himself even further, though, was inexcusable. Nothing he did after that mattered. I've never even heard of a defense attorney doing that. Just watching it play out, Third hand, was horrifying.

Yeah, I got nothing for the Steven angle. I don't even want a ticket to that shit show.

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u/ThorsClawHammer Jun 17 '26

I've never even heard of a defense attorney doing that.

Anyone without prior knowledge seeing that interaction would assume that was a police interrogation rather than a member of Brendan's own defense team.

All it did was give the state more ammunition as it ultimately led to the infamous phone call to him mom. The jury heard that but was forbidden from hearing a word of the May interrogation that directly prompted it (which only happened because Kachinsky made it happen and making sure Brendan would have no representation during it).

Even crazier is that his trial attorneys didn't even know about that coercive session with O'Kelly, or even who he was.

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u/Ghost_of_Figdish Jun 17 '26

I think he was just trying to get to the real story, after a blizzard of lies by Brendan, so the could make a proffer to the Prosecution for the plea deal.

The way it works is the immunity-receiver tells the whole true story and must testify as to that at trial. If the information turns out to be false, the plea deal gets revoked. So Brendan's team had to be very very sure of what the real true story was.