It’s been nearly three years since Netflix’s Making a Murderer brought international attention to Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, and had just about everyone talking about whether Steven Avery and his teenage nephew, Brendan Dassey, had been framed for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. The 10-part docuseries — created by filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos — covered the police investigation, the defense teams’ trial preparations, and the eventual convictions of both Avery and Dassey, provoking major doubts as to their guilt along the way. There was backlash too, from both Wisconsin law enforcement and some critics,...
- 10/18/2018
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of HBO’s Making a Murderer subject Brendan Dassey. No explanation was given for the decision.
Dassey was sentenced to live in prison in 2007 in Wisconsin for his alleged participation in the 2005 death of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach; his uncle Steven Avery was found guilty of Halbach’s murder. Last August, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Duffin overturned Dassey’s conviction, ruling that the court found his confession was involuntary. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the state court decision that could have freed Dassey, ruling that the court’s findings that he participated were “reasonable,” even though one dissenting judge said the case was “a profound miscarriage of justice.”
The hugely popular Making A Murderer docuseries, which premiered in December 2016 on HBO, was viewed by 20 million people and won four Emmys out of six nominations.
Dassey was sentenced to live in prison in 2007 in Wisconsin for his alleged participation in the 2005 death of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach; his uncle Steven Avery was found guilty of Halbach’s murder. Last August, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Duffin overturned Dassey’s conviction, ruling that the court found his confession was involuntary. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the state court decision that could have freed Dassey, ruling that the court’s findings that he participated were “reasonable,” even though one dissenting judge said the case was “a profound miscarriage of justice.”
The hugely popular Making A Murderer docuseries, which premiered in December 2016 on HBO, was viewed by 20 million people and won four Emmys out of six nominations.
- 6/25/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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