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Sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Teresa Halbach, Brendan Dassey from Netflix's "Making a Murderer" has been ordered to be released from prison within the next 90 days after a federal court overturned his conviction on Friday. Accused of coercing his confession, the law enforcement officers who interrogated Dassey currently do not face any criminal charges.
According to Judge William Duffin, investigators repeatedly made false promises to Dassey in an attempt to extract a confession from him, regardless of the facts surrounding the case.
Duffin ruled that Dassey's confession had been involuntary due to his young age and developmental disorder. Dassey also confessed to crimes that could not be confirmed by any forensic evidence or DNA before redacting his confession.
In March 2006, Steven Avery's 16-year-old nephew, Brendan Dassey, was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse. According to the recorded interviews, DOJ investigator Tom Fassbender and Calumet Sheriff's Sgt. Mark Weigert appeared to coerce a false confession from the developmentally challenged minor without the presence of his parents or a lawyer. Instead of verifying Dassey's statements, which were mostly fed to him by Fassbender and Weigert, special prosecutor Ken Kratz held a ghastly press conference describing the orgy of blood in lurid detail while simultaneously corrupting the jury pool in order to ensure a victory later at trial.
After her client heard that his nephew's conviction had been overturned, Steven Avery's new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, told
WISN 12, "We fully expected this outcome from an unbiased court that carefully examined his confession. I was just visiting Steven Avery, and he is so happy for Brendan. We know when an unbiased court reviews all of the new evidence we have, Steven will have his conviction overturned as well."
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