I don't know if it was ever a possibility, but I wonder if both Avery and Dassey would have been better off with a single trial. Typically, defendants like to separate - so that one is not tainted by the guilt of the other. But, had these cases been tried together, and the prosecution has to put Dassey's "confession" in with virtually no corroborating evidence - and then Dassey also gets the ancillary effect of Steven's attorney's attacking the credibility of the state's witnesses - I just wonder if that would have created more reasonable doubt.