Ms Zellner said she is confident Avery’s conviction will eventually also be overturned “when an unbiased court” reviews it. Dassey had originally become involved with the investigation when a cousin and classmate of his, Kayla Avery, had told police that he had told her Halbach’s body parts in a fire at her uncle’s residence, although Kayla had later testified against the claim that Dassey had told her anything.
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January 30, 2007: A judge says defense attorneys can tell jurors that Avery was wrongfully convicted of rape and may use as evidence a vial of his blood found unsecured in the Manitowoc County courthouse.
She believes Avery is guilty of killing and raping photographer Teresa Halbach.
TMZ added that, in contrast, Avery’s brother Chuck said that he would not celebrate “until the other person wrongly convicted is also freed: his brother”.
Avery has filed a notice of appeal in his own case.
Dassey is famously remembered for complaining on the Netflix docu-series “Making a Murderer” that he was missing Wrestlemania 21 as he was likely going to be in prison at the time of the event on April 10, 2005. In Friday’s court decision, the judge agreed, overturning a life sentence for first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and second-degree intentional assault.
Duffin said in his ruling that investigators made false promises to Dassey by assuring him “he had nothing to worry about”.
The story rose to national prominence when it was chronicled on the Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer”. “These repeated false promises, when considered in conjunction with all relevant factors, most especially Dassey’s age, intellectual deficits, and the absence of a supportive adult, rendered Dassey’s confession involuntary under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments”. I was just visiting Steven Avery and he is so happy for Brendan. For this reason, a Wisconsin Federal court overturned Dassey’s conviction on Friday.
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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