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24th Nov 2016

MAKING A MURDERER: Potential breakthrough as judge orders new tests on Steven Avery evidence

Paul Moore

Steven Avery

Good news for Steven Avery.

Three months after Steven Avery’s lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, announced that she had a plan to overturn his 2007 conviction, there has been a significant breakthrough.

USA Today Network-Wisconsin are reporting that an agreement to start independent scientific testing on several critical pieces of evidence has been signed.

The evidence that will be tested includes a vial of blood that’s said to be a sample of Avery’s own blood.

As told in the Netflix documentary Making A Murderer, Avery was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree intentional homicide in the 2005 death of photographer Teresa Halbach in Manitowoc County.

Here’s what Avery’s lawyer had to say on this encouraging development.

https://twitter.com/ZellnerLaw/status/801554255308091392

https://twitter.com/ZellnerLaw/status/801556209711140865

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