From the Netflix hit series, Making A Murderer, 26-year-old Brendan Dassey and his lawyers are requesting that the court grant his release from prison while the state’s appeal is pending.
Dassey’s lawyers filed a 48-page motion that argued that he is not a flight risk, and that he has been a model prisoner spending his time reading, watching TV, and learning how to crochet. Also, while in the Columbia Correctional Facility in Wisconsin, Dassey got his GED and hopes to get a gig with a video game design company one he’s out of prison.
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Back in August, a federal judge named William Duffin ordered that Brendan Dassey be released from prison because his constitutional rights were violated. Judge Duffin ruled that the investigators on the case tricked Dassey into a confession, and that he should be freed within 90 days unless prosecutors appealed the decision.
Not long after the judge’s ruling, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel appealed that decision at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Dassey, who was only 16 at the time, was one of the two men convicted for the murder of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. His videotaped confession played a pivotal role in his conviction, even though he later recanted his story. The other man accused of murdering Halbach was Dassey’s uncle, Steven Avery.
In an interview last month, Dassey’s lawyer Laura Nirider said that Dassey was “doing the best he can do.” She also mentioned, “It’s been one day at a time for the past 10 years and he’s been waiting for this moment so he’s just processing it and understanding what’s happening and taking it one day at a time.”
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