Steven Avery, the subject of the Netflix docu-series “Making a Murderer,” has won the right to appeal his murder conviction stemming from the 2005 death of photographer Teresa Halbach, the BBC reports.
Avery, who is currently serving a life sentence for Zellner’s murder, won a motion to appeal due to suspected human bones that were found in a gravel pit. Avery’s attorney, Kathleen Zellner, contended in a motion that the bones were given to Halbach’s family, and were not tested for DNA, in violation of the law.
“It Is Ordered that this appeal is remanded forthwith to the circuit court to permit Steven A. Avery to pursue a supplemental postconviction motion raising ‘claims for relief in connection with the State’s violation of Wis. Stat. § 968.205 and Youngblood v. Arizona,'” paperwork filed Monday in the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reads.
Bone fragments believed to be Halbach’s were...
Avery, who is currently serving a life sentence for Zellner’s murder, won a motion to appeal due to suspected human bones that were found in a gravel pit. Avery’s attorney, Kathleen Zellner, contended in a motion that the bones were given to Halbach’s family, and were not tested for DNA, in violation of the law.
“It Is Ordered that this appeal is remanded forthwith to the circuit court to permit Steven A. Avery to pursue a supplemental postconviction motion raising ‘claims for relief in connection with the State’s violation of Wis. Stat. § 968.205 and Youngblood v. Arizona,'” paperwork filed Monday in the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reads.
Bone fragments believed to be Halbach’s were...
- 2/27/2019
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals has denied Steven Avery’s December 17th motion requesting to use new “rapid DNA identification” testing on “suspected human skeletal remains” that were recovered but never identified during the original investigation into Teresa Halbach’s 2005 murder. Avery’s attorney, Kathleen Zellner, isn’t discouraged, however; she tells Rolling Stone that the court simply wants to resolve the many other issues in the Making a Murderer case that have already been raised on appeal, and that the decision doesn’t preclude such testing in the future.
- 1/2/2019
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
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