Steven Avery has welcomed news that a judge has overturned his nephew’s conviction in the case that was profiled in the popular Netflix documentary series Making A Murderer.
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He is reported as ordering Brendan to be “released from custody unless, within 90 days of the date of this decision, the State initiates proceedings to retry him”.
Brendan Dassey, who served as a subject of #Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” documentary series, could sue for millions of dollars, according to legal experts. Later that year, he was sentenced to life in prison. Avery spent 18 years in prison for rape before DNA evidence cleared him of the crime and he was freed in 2003.
According to the new ruling, Dassey’s confession was obtained by police who gave the teenager “false promises”.
Dassey, then 16, confessed to authorities that he assisted his uncle in raping and killing Halbach.
He’s to be released within 90 days, WISN reports.
October 31, 2005: Teresa Halbach, 25, of St. John in Calumet County, a photographer for Auto Trader Magazine, goes to Avery’s Auto Salvage near Mishicot to photograph a minivan for sale by Steven Avery’s sister.
Halbach, a freelance photographer, came to take pictures of some vehicles at the Avery family’s auto salvage yard, and she was never seen again. Drizin got involved in Dassey’s case in 2007 and had questions of his own regarding the interrogation methods used by the Manitowoc’s Sheriff Department.
Dassey and his uncle Steven Avery were convicted of murdering young woman Teresa Hallbach in 2005. With a second season of the series greenlit by Netflix, viewers have been anticipating the payoff of knowing more about Dassey’s fate, but a federal judge on Friday overturned Dassey’s charges, and Netflix producers weren’t there to catch the moment. Once considered in this proper light, the conclusion that Dassey’s statement was involuntary under the totality of the circumstances is not one about which “fair minded jurists could disagree”. The judge found that confession was involuntary in a 91-page decision. “Avery is next. Time to go after real killer”.
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Season 2 of “Making a Murderer” is now in production.
