‘Making A Murderer’ Defendant’s Confession Stands – Sentence Upheld

Brendan Dassey, from the Netflix series ‘Making A Murderer’ was seemingly coerced into confessing.

By kncipat on December 9, 2017
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Brendan Dassey, from the Netflix series ‘Making A Murderer’ was seemingly coerced into confessing.

After a series of appeals, “(a) federal appeals court in Chicago narrowly overturned a ruling Friday that could have freed a Wisconsin inmate featured in the “Making a Murderer” series from prison, though one dissenting judge called the case “a profound miscarriage of justice.”

According the the Associated Press, “The full 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed Brendan Dassey’s claims that investigators tricked him into confessing that he took part in raping and killing photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 after telling detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Halbach.

The 4-to-3 opinion conceded a ruling wasn’t obvious or easy, but said it came down to whether findings by Wisconsin state courts that Dassey wasn’t coerced into confessing were reasonable.”

For now, it appears that Brendan Dassey will remain in prison.

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