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[Dalek]

Prosecutors Appeal Overturned Conviction of ‘Making a Murderer’ Subject Brendan Dassey

Brendan Dassey, the Wisconsin man whose murder conviction was questioned on the popular “Making a Murderer” documentary series on Netflix, will have to spend at least a little more time in prison.

Brad Schimel, the attorney general in Wisconsin, on Friday appealed a federal judge’s Aug. 12 decision that overturned Mr. Dassey’s conviction in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach, a 25-year-old photographer in Manitowoc, Wis. In overturning the conviction, the judge, William E. Duffin of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, gave prosecutors 90 days to schedule a new trial or free him from prison.

The appeal of the judge’s decision means that Mr. Dassey will remain in prison pending the outcome.

The 10-part Netflix series by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, released in December, suggested that police investigators unfairly questioned Mr. Dassey, then 16, without a lawyer or parent present. He was portrayed as mentally unfit, and suggested investigators coerced him into a confession. Judge Duffin agreed, saying that the authorities’ conduct was unconstitutional.

But Mr. Schimel, in a statement released on Friday, said: “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. 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.”

 

[hateradio]

That's pretty crazy. I wonder if the show helped.

 

[Gattsu25]

That's pretty crazy. I wonder if the show helped.

Reread the OP.

The conviction was overturned, but the prosecutors are appealing that. They want to keep him in jail.

 

[plagiarize]

I hate being right, but I knew there was no way they were going to let Dassey go without a fight.

 

[Dan]

Of course they did. Entirely expected.

 

[Michael F. Assbender]

Because you can't spell "miscarriage of justice" without "stupid fucking dipshit prosecutors more interested in preventing a loss in the courtroom than they are in seeing the right thing be done."

 

[Dalek]

Because you can't spell "miscarriage of justice" without "stupid fucking dipshit prosecutors more interested in preventing a loss in the courtroom than they are in seeing the right thing be done."

Yes they are really just doing this out of spite and it's disgusting.

 

[Jerbs]

Not surprising at all the state would appeal this. They will fight for the conviction they won. It's just the way it works.

 

[Hierophant]

remember his lawyer? what a bunch of fucking snakes