Avery is the subject of the popular Netflix series “Making A Murderer”.
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In the new appeal filed by Avery not only does he make a variety of due process allegations, but he also seeks to be released on bond.
Additionally, he says that one member of the jury, referred to as Juror C.W., told the jury room that Avery was “f-king guilty”, which the appeal states “deprived Avery of an impartial Jury trial”.
However in a statement on the We The People site, the White House said the President couldn’t free Avery.
He was sentenced to serve life in prison for the murder of Teresa Halbach, a young photographer.
Avery’s then 16-year-old nephew Brendan Dassey was convicted of assisting Avery in Halbach’s murder, thanks to his confession that the documentary alluded to being coerced by law enforcement interrogation tactics. She also represented Kevin Fox, an IL man who was wrongfully convicted of killing his daughter, Riley Fox.
The 10-part documentary series, filmed over many years, heavily scrutinizes the course of Avery’s arrest, trial and conviction for murder, and has inspired an impassioned call for his pardon and release. Avery will be getting some help with the appeal from his new lawyer, Kathleen Zellner.
Despite an estimated one million viewers watching the Netflix hit in the United States alone, and nearly half a million signing various petitions for Avery’s release, local Manitowoc County Mayor Justin Nickels warned viewers not to be swayed purely by the show.
Zellner’s website says that she “has righted more wrongful convictions than any private attorney in America”.
In 2003, Avery was exonerated by DNA evidence after serving 18 years in prison for a rape. Now that that’s out of the way, I’m confident in saying that you’re probably hanging on every little detail of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey’s absorbing case.
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Avery has been maintaining his innocence once again and his supporters have fervently been spreading that message online through social media and petitions.
