Brendan Dassey asks to be released while Wisconsin appeals his overturned conviction
Brendan Dassey, one of the subjects of Netflix’s Making A Murderer docuseries, recently had his conviction overturned by a federal judge. But Dassey—who had been serving a 41-year sentence for first-degree murder, second-degree sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse—is still far from being a free man. The state of Wisconsin announced just last week that it would appeal the judge’s decision, arguing that it is “wrong on the facts and wrong on the law.” No court date has been set for the appeal, which the Wisconsin Attorney General’s office has already filed, which means that Dassey’s overturned conviction has left him in pretty much the same place as his conviction 11 years ago.