Wrong actually. Not only did Jessie stop confessing after Dan directly confronted him on it in September, but Dan was able to talk Jessie into NOT testifying on feb 8th (hence why the state purposefully limited how much time they had together) even though he wasn't all that good a manipulator. They just had to trick him into thinking Dan couldn't help him and it would be downright easy given time. He wouldn't just sing at the drop of a hat but he would be far more vulnerable.
Also, there's the fact that the state contacted Dan and Greg on the 8th of February with the claim Jessie wanted to make a statement. Anyone who REALLY thinks that there wasn't some alone time between Jessie and the prosecutors is being downright naive. Same with the "prison transfers happen all the time." Why would they do so WITHOUT informing the defense's own attorney? Considering that Dan had thwarted the previous attempt to get Jessie to testify you'd have to be a complete idiot not to consider that the move was to limit Dan being able to intervene (same reason they only gave Dan a few minutes on the 22nd. They realized Dan could have talked Jessie out of it and didn't want him to **** up their plan.)
We only have the policemen's word on what Jessie said and given the "good ol boys" network down there I can easily buy them saying things like "you'll get the chair if you don't cooperate" or "you wanna see daddy again? right? Then maybe you should cooperate." Jessie wasn't quite the person who would do it at the drop of a hat but he was weak enough that if you applied pressure he could easily break.
As for why he ultimately didn't, that's easy. After he talked with his father and thought it over he realized that the prosecutors were lying to him and that he didn't want to take part in a lie. Given that NONE of the clarification statements were correct and the state's "he was drunk" theory is utter horseshit (he'd have to clean up blood vomit beer bottles footprints upturned grass and fingerprints at night while drunk while mosquitos were out without leaving anything behind and the whiskey bottle was ultimately a worthless red herring) no. Jessie's confessions were garbage.
The nons can't afford for them to be false. Without them, they've got jack.
Ellington admitted point blank that the "ritual murder" theory is horseshit and that the state would have lost when it came to a trial. That's why he took the deal. To avoid getting slaughtered in court.
^ Well, that's convenient. Dan was able to manipulate him, but not manipulate him all the way, and only at certain points after JM had already confessed a plethora of times. Okie-dokie, I guess.
And no, I'm not wrong. See the bible confession. Given after JM was already convicted, and against the extreme and recorded behest of Stidham. If you think JM also wasn't "directly confronted" by Stidham before the actual recorded confession, you're dreaming. Stidham would have surely said, "I'ld like a minute alone with my client" at some point before the recorded session.
To answer your questions, because JM himself requested the meetings. And also, again, prison transfers are common and are due to a plethora of reasons, such as over-crowding, etc. It isn't the prosecution who is behind it 100% of the time, but the facility itself. Supporters just like to assume the evil prosecutors ordered it when there is zero proof of that; and supporters like to lump in the prosecutors with being in cahoots with the holding facility, and the WMPD, and Judge Burnett, and Peretti, and TH, and pretty much anyone else you can think of -- with no proof. It's comical, really.
Also, I guess his father wasn't communicating with him at all during the multiple confessions he gave after being convicted? He only communicated with him when prosecutors approached him with a deal in exchange for his testimony against JB and DE? Wonder why JM would listen to his father then, but not any other single time he talked to his father beforehand. Same with his lawyer. Sorry, that doesn't wash.
And the Alford Plea works both ways. Let's not forget that it wasn't Ellington who approached the WM3 with that plea; it was the other way around. He would have gone to trial if the WM3 never approached with that plea, but supporters love to ignore that.