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Eugene

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Thu Nov 17, 2016, 07:06 PM Nov 2016

Brendan Dassey of Making a Murderer has release blocked by appeals court

Source: The Guardian

A federal appeals court has blocked the release of Brendan Dassey, one of the subjects in Netflix’s documentary series Making a Murderer, just days after a lower court ordered him to be released from prison.

The decision from a three-judge panel in the seventh circuit court of appeals in the latest development in a years-long legal battle by Dassey to secure his release and overturn his conviction for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach, a local Wisconsin photographer.

On Monday, a US magistrate judge, William Duffin, ordered Dassey to be released under court-ordered supervision, three months after having overturned his conviction. Wisconsin’s attorney general, Brad Schimel, immediately announced he planned to file an emergency motion to block Dassey’s release.

In a short order issued on Thursday, the appellate judges stayed Duffin’s decision, pending the outcome of the state’s appeal.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/17/brendan-dassey-making-a-murderer-release-blocked-appeals-court



Ryan Felton in Detroit
Thursday 17 November 2016 19.05 GMT
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