“The inevitable is coming-he was smiling so were we”, Zellner tweeted. In having had a number of these cases, it has the signature of a wrongful conviction case.
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The first of many tweets raises the inconsistencies of the forensic evidence: (note SA = Steven Avery, TH = Teresa Halbach).
Social media will undoubtedly influence any retrial which might take place, it is now a court of judgement in and of itself and defence attorney for Avery, Kathleen Zellner, appears to understand the pearls of this.
It’s the pub conversation cul-de-sac that no one can ever win: Is Steven Avery is guilty of murder or not?
Zellner recently told The Lip.TV what attracted her to the case: “It’s the evidence”.
Zellner has also been partaking in interviews, the latest of which she had this to say to TheLipTV: “It’s the evidence”.
In 1985, Avery was wrongfully convicted of a rape charge.
Avery’s lawyer Kathleen Zellner had responded to his claims calling it “nonsense”, “that claim is just nonsense but the system is corrupt.’ The objective of Making a Murderer, according to its producers was to shed light on the American justice system, to see if it is delivering its ‘promise of truth and justice”. They only focused on him.
She added: “There was a very poor investigation done of the victim’s background, who she was involved with, the circumstances of her life”.
Later, when suing the local sheriff’s department and seeking damages of $36m for wrongful conviction, Avery became the prime suspect in the murder of a young photographer, whose last known sighting was on his family’s auto yard.
On Feb. 16, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals granted Manitowoc County’s request, and the county now has until March 2, to comply.
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Manitowoc County’s public prosecutor had asked the court to grant more time to gather documents in the case.
