With Evidence That Could Exonerate Him, Will Steven Avery Of 'Making A Murderer' Get A New Trial?
His attorney has pledged to never give up the fight to secure his freedom.
Steven Avery
The deeper we dig into the Avery conviction the more evidence we uncover of his innocence. It does not matter how long it takes, what it cost or what obstacles we have to overcome—our efforts to win Mr. Avery’s freedom will never stop. Giving up on his case would be accepting that someone else got away with murder and our justice system is just too incompetent, indifferent and/or inflexible to recognize this huge mistake and rectify it. We are going to keep ringing the doorbell at this so called Court of Justice until someone answers it.
— Kathleen Zellner, attorney for Steven Avery the subject of Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, commenting on the defense team’s bombshell motion filed earlier this week that details proof that murder victim Teresa Halbach was still living when she left the Avery property and implicates Avery’s nephew, Bobby Dassey, in her gruesome death. Earlier this month, a judge refused to grant a new trial for Avery, and in the motion, Zellner claims that not only was the decision based on “manifest errors of law and fact,” but new evidence requires a new trial.
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(Flip to the next page to see Zellner’s 54-page motion.)
Staci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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