Post by deyana on Feb 26, 2019 20:45:51 GMT -5
Making a Murderer: Steven Avery wins right to appeal.
I watched the two documentaries on this case and found it intriguing. Did Steven Avery kill the young woman or not? Did he have an accomplish in the form of his nephew?
Was Steven Avery framed by the Police, simply because they didn't like him?
Steven Avery is serving a life sentence for the murder of young freelance photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005.
He says he is innocent. Avery has won a motion to appeal based on possible human bones found in a gravel pit.
His lawyer says they were not tested for DNA and were given to the Halbach family, a violation of state law.
Kathleen Zellner, who filed the motion, said the return of the bones meant that potentially crucial evidence in the case had been kept from further testing.
Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were both sentenced to life in jail - in separate trials - for killing Ms Halbach, whose charred remains were found at Avery's car salvage yard a week after she went there to photograph a minivan for sale.
If the bones - found near the Avery property - are found to belong to Ms Halbach, Ms Zellner says it undermines the prosecution's theory that she was killed on the Avery property.
"This evidence has the potential to undo the whole case, so it is a big win,"
On Twitter, Ms Zellner said:"We are going to have an extraordinary number of constitutional violations when we are done. The [court of appeals] is letting us create an avalanche of evidence in this record. Higher courts rule."
Avery previously served 18 years in prison and was released.
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I watched the two documentaries on this case and found it intriguing. Did Steven Avery kill the young woman or not? Did he have an accomplish in the form of his nephew?
Was Steven Avery framed by the Police, simply because they didn't like him?
Steven Avery is serving a life sentence for the murder of young freelance photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005.
He says he is innocent. Avery has won a motion to appeal based on possible human bones found in a gravel pit.
His lawyer says they were not tested for DNA and were given to the Halbach family, a violation of state law.
Kathleen Zellner, who filed the motion, said the return of the bones meant that potentially crucial evidence in the case had been kept from further testing.
Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were both sentenced to life in jail - in separate trials - for killing Ms Halbach, whose charred remains were found at Avery's car salvage yard a week after she went there to photograph a minivan for sale.
If the bones - found near the Avery property - are found to belong to Ms Halbach, Ms Zellner says it undermines the prosecution's theory that she was killed on the Avery property.
"This evidence has the potential to undo the whole case, so it is a big win,"
On Twitter, Ms Zellner said:"We are going to have an extraordinary number of constitutional violations when we are done. The [court of appeals] is letting us create an avalanche of evidence in this record. Higher courts rule."
Avery previously served 18 years in prison and was released.
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