# Was Budd Dwyer factually guilty, innocent, or what?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 16, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-budd-dwyer-factually-guilty-innocent-or-what/631629 "2012-08-16T00:29:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-budd-dwyer-factually-guilty-innocent-or-what/631629/24 "2012-08-18T05:34:45Z")

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> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#):
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> Actually, you can make a hell of a case that he was innocent, because based on the evidence, he was. The guy who was almost single-handedly responsible for his conviction admitted that he framed Dwyer up. That pretty much closes the book on his guilt.

I don’t know that I swallow the ‘confession’. I’m believing less, and less of these post conviction coming clean and finally telling the truth stories. They always seem too contrived/convenient/etc… for my taste.

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