Wisconsin is appealing the decision to free ‘Making a Murderer’ subject Brendan Dassey
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Then-16-year-old Brendan Dassey was convicted of helping Steven Avery in murder.
A local Fox affiliate reports that Attorney General Brad Schimel, on behalf of Warden Michael Dittmann and the State of Wisconsin, has filed an appeal in the decision to free Brendan Dassey, the subject of Netflix docuseries “Making a Murderer.”
Seventeen years old at the time, Dassey was previously convicted of the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach, alongside his uncle, Steven Avery.
In August, a federal magistrate ordered Dassey to be freed within 90 days unless prosecutors decided to try him for the murder again.
“We believe the magistrate judge’s decision that Brendan Dassey’s confession was coerced by investigators, and that no reasonable court could have concluded otherwise, is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law,” Schimel said in a statement to press on Friday. “Two state courts carefully examined the evidence and properly concluded that Brendan Dassey’s confession to sexually assaulting and murdering Teresa Halbach with his uncle, Steven Avery, was voluntary, and the investigators did not use constitutionally impermissible tactics.”
Schimel also stated that the Halbach family had been notified of the state’s appeal and fully supports its decision.
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