A federal appeals court in Chicago on Tuesday
will consider the fate of Brendan Dassey, the Wisconsin man made famous
by the Netflix series Making a Murderer. Dassey’s conviction was
overturned in August by a federal magistrate judge, who ruled that
investigators in the 2005 murder of auto-sales photographer Teresa
Halbach took advantage of his young age and cognitive disabilities. At
the time, Dassey told detectives he helped his uncle rape and kill
Halbach; a video of the confession appeared in the documentary, leading
to accusations of a forced confession. He was sentenced to life in
prison in 2007. Dassey, now 27, and he remains in prison pending the
appeal and subsequent judgment. His uncle Steven Avery, who was
sentenced to life in prison in a separate trial, is pursuing another
appeal in his case. |
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