A lawyer for Steven Avery, whose conviction in a 2007 murder trial was
the subject of the Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer" says she can
prove Avery's innocence. Attorney Kathleen Zellner says the evidence
that convicted Avery of murdering photographer Teresa Halbach was
staged. Zellner's biggest discovery was that Halbach's car had been
seized by police before it appeared on Avery's property. Avery's
previous lawyers had contended that the blood found in the vehicle had
also been planted by police. Zellner is requesting new forensic tests to
determine whether the blood samples had been preserved in vials before
they appeared in the car.Earlier this month, Avery's nephew Brendan
Dassey's conviction in the murder case was overturned. Zellner hopes for
a similar verdit for Avery. "No guilty person would ever allow such
extensive testing to be done," Zellner told Newsweek. "The fact that Mr.
Avery has agreed to all this testing is further proof he’s actually
innocent of these crimes." |
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