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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of Wisconsin teen Brendan Dassey, who was featured in the hit Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer.” Dassey is serving a life ...
Making a Murderer is an American true crime documentary television series written and directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos.The show tells the story of Steven Avery, a man from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who served 18 years in prison (1985–2003) after his wrongful conviction for the sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen.
Andrew Colburn, a former police sergeant in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, has sued the filmmakers of “Making a Murderer” as well as Netflix, for defamation over his portrayal in the docuseries.
Steven Avery, the man at the center of the popular Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer,” is taking his years-long legal saga to Wisconsin’s highest court, his lead attorney said ...
Brendan Ray Dassey (born October 19, 1989) is an American prisoner from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who was convicted of being a party to first-degree murder, mutilation of a corpse, and second-degree sexual assault. He was sentenced to life in prison with the earliest possibility of parole in 2048.
The state of Wisconsin has said the latest appeal made by Steven Avery, the man at the center of Netflix’s wildly popular “Making a Murderer” docuseries, should be denied. Avery and his 31 ...
Avery's 2007 murder trial and its associated issues are the focus of the 2015 Netflix original documentary series Making a Murderer, which also covered the arrest and 2007 conviction of Avery's nephew, Brendan Dassey. [7] In August 2016, a federal judge overturned Dassey's conviction on the grounds that his confession had been coerced.
Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos spent two more years chronicling the appeals of Steven Avery by his new lawyer, Kathleen Zellner. What they discovered about the post-conviction process is troubling.