The officers, for example, suggested he would receive leniency for complying and fed facts "to get Brendan to say how Ms Halbach died", said the attorney, Laura Nirider.
For example, she said, the officers interrogating Dassey appeared to suggest he would receive leniency for his compliance in confessing to the crime, and then fed facts "to get Brendan to say how Ms Halbach died".
She no longer feels the need to parse the intricacies of human relationships and love affairs, "but I do still want to be fed facts, to be given material which extends the region in which my mind can wander".
On Thursday, the State Court of Appeals ruled that it looked very much as though detectives in Rochester had fed facts about the murder to Mr. Warney, and it said he could seek compensation for his conviction.
And when he told the group "the era when we could just spoon-feed facts to kids is over," and exhorted the teachers and parents in the room to "let your children take their iPads into school," they looked up from their own iPads to nod (or Tweet) their approval.
When it comes to educational software, the trick is to make kids think they're just playing a traditional escapist game, while they're really being surreptitiously fed facts and logic problems that put their brains to work.
Not only did they feed facts to suspects, they scripted entire narratives for them.
Every campaign has people behind the scenes feeding unflattering facts about opponents to the press.
"What you are going to see is the police feeding him facts," said Mr. Finzi, who is handling the case pro bono as part of the Exoneration Initiative, an organization that investigates claims of wrongful convictions in which there is no conclusive DNA evidence.
In an earlier case involving false confessor Douglas Warney's claim for compensation, the Court recognized that feeding crime facts to a suspect during interrogations is a kind of manipulation that can lead juries to convict the innocent.
Lions are quick to follow the calls of hyenas feeding, a fact demonstrated by field experiments, during which lions repeatedly approached whenever the tape-recorded calls of hyenas feeding were played.
