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MAKING A MURDERER: There’s been a major update in Steven Avery’s case

Published 09:11 4 Oct 2017 BST

Updated 09:13 4 Oct 2017 BST

Orlaith Condon
MAKING A MURDERER: There’s been a major update in Steven Avery’s case

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Steven Avery, the focus of Netflix’s Making a Murderer, has had his request for a new trial denied. Avery was sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of murdering 25-year-old Teresa Halbach in 2005. To this day, Avery maintains that he is innocent. His attorney requested a new trial because she believed she had new evidence to present at trial if it had been granted. “We have additional test results and witness affidavits,” she said in a statement. “The scientific testing is not complete, we remain optimistic that Mr. Avery’s conviction will be vacated.” https://twitter.com/ZellnerLaw/status/915345920916459521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw   https://twitter.com/averydassey/status/915350286935511041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The judge made the ruling that the evidence provided did not warrant a new trial. In 2016, Steven Avery’s nephew Brendan Dassy 2007 conviction for assisting Avery in the murder was overturned. https://twitter.com/TMJ4Steve/status/915300449632292870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw  

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