Making A Murderer subject Brendan Dassey to appeal conviction in full federal court
Last November, a judge in Milwaukee who must’ve finally gotten around to watching Making A Murderer decided to overturn the conviction of Brendan Dassey, who has been in prison since 2007 after he confessed to helping his uncle Steven Avery in the rape and murder of a woman named Teresa Halbach. As people who have seen the aforementioned Netflix documentary series probably know, though, Dassey’s confession was pretty clearly coerced, making the recent moves to get his conviction overturned a very belated bit of justice for a guy who was 16 when the cops pushed him to confess to the crime.