As we reported last night, Brendan Dassey from Netflix’s Making A Murderer docuseries has had his conviction for the murder of Teresa Halbach overturned.
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A federal judge in Milwaukee has overturned Brendan Dassey’s conviction. In his ruling, the judge said this combined with his low intellect and the lack of an adult present with him made his confession involuntary and his conviction was overturned. Avery remains behind bars serving a life sentence for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. He believes his nephew will be released.
Halbach was killed at the Avery Salvage Yard, where she had been hired to photograph vehicles for a magazine, according to court documents.
Also speaking to TMZ, Avery’s brother Chuck said that he was also happy for Dassey but that he wouldn’t stop “until the other person wrongly convicted is also freed: his brother”. Prosecutors have 90 days to decide what to do now.
The Netflix documentary brought worldwide attention to the subsequent murder case by exploring issues and procedures in the Manitowoc County sheriff’s department investigation of Avery and Dassey.
During the first season of Netflix’s extremely popular Making a Murderer, viewers watched in dismay as defendant Brendan Dassey was pummeled by the prosecution for murder and sexual assault charges.
“The investigators’ use of leading questions and disclosure of non-public facts makes it hard to evaluate whether Dassey really knew the facts or was simply agreeing with the investigators”, Duffin said in his decision.
“The investigators repeatedly claimed to already know what happened on October 31 and assured Dassey that he had nothing to worry about”, Judge Duffin wrote.
While debate still rages on Avery’s case, few can argue Dassey wasn’t completely let down by the system.
April 16, 2007: Dassey, now 17, goes on trial before a jury selected in Dane County.
Ever since agreeing to take on his case, Zellner has been vocal about Avery’s case and her Twitter feed has been dedicated to declaring him innocent.
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