Making A Murderer fans, prepare yourselves – you’re about to feel vindicated.
After spending a decade in prison for intentional homicide, Brendan Dassey is set to be released, Entertainment Tonight reports.
US magistrate judge William E. Duffin overturned the 26-year-old’s conviction for the 2005 murder of Theresa Halbach yesterday over doubt over the voluntary nature of his confession.
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According to court documents, Duffin said investigators into Dassey’s case made “false promises” that coupled with “his age, intellectual deficit, and the absence of a supportive adult,” made his confession “involuntary.”
But, the Making a Murderer Prosecutor Ken Kratz told Meshel Laurie on the Nitty Gritty Committee podcast, it’s not over yet. Not by a long shot:
The ruling means prosecutors have 90 days to bring Dassey, who was one of the main subjects in the 2015 Netflix documentary series, to trial again or he will be released.
The theory that the 26-year-old’s confession may have been coerced by police was widely held by viewers after it was examined in the documentary, which brought a significant amount of public interest in Dassey and his uncle Steven Avery’s cases.