The 10-part Netflix series also followed the case of his nephew, Brendan Dassey, who was convicted alongside Avery of Ms Halbach’s murder.
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Yesterday, a Milwaukee judge ruled that Dassey be “released from custody unless, within 90 days of the date of this decision, the State initiates proceedings to retry him”.
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”.
In 2007 Dassey was sentenced to life in prison following the murder of Teresa Halbach, who was killed in 2005.
November 5, 2005: Halbach’s cousins find her vehicle under brush and auto parts in the Avery salvage yard.
Brendan Dassey confessed to helping his uncle, Steven Avery, carry out the rape and murder of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. In his 91-page ruling, Duffin considers the reliability of Dassey’s confession and whether it was voluntary, ultimately criticizing “deceptive interrogation tactics” by investigators.
“This is right, this is justice”, Dassey’s attorney Laura Nirider told ABC News. Dassey’s attorneys had argued that the confession was coerced.
The state alleged that Avery tied Halbach to a bed and ordered Dassey to sexually assault her before she was stabbed and later dragged to Avery’s garage and shot. This is because Federal Magistrate Judge William E. Duffin found the then-teenager’s confession was involuntarily obtained in violation the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Avery remains in prison. Court papers describe Dassey as a slow learner with poor grades, with difficulty understanding some aspects of language and expressing himself verbally.
Duffin wrote that Kachinsky’s conduct throughout the case was tactically and ethically inexcusable. “He’s not innocent”, she said. He is pursuing his own appeal.
The ruling paves the way for Steven Avery’s eventual release as his legal team, led by Kathleen Zellner, have said is imminent.
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Brendan Dassey – Making A Murderer Brendan Dassey, pictured in 2016 while aged 16, is escorted out of a Manitowoc County Circuit courtroom. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.
