Steven Avery's Making A Murderer

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The new show Making a Murderer is a huge hit on Netflix. This show just has one season so far and it is 10 episodes long. Now that a lot of people have had time to watch all of this show about Steven Avery, the viewers have a lot of questions. People shared about the main questions that everyone has about the case of Steven Avery when trying to figure out if he is really a criminal or not. This show about Steven Avery is perfect for any true crime fan.

This show is all about Steven Avery's wrongful 1985 conviction for sexual assault. It was overturned but then he was convicted and sentenced to life for the 2005 murder of photographer Teresa Halbach. Steven Avery insists that once again he is innocent and didn't do anything wrong. Steven is …show more content…

On Making a Murderer they admitted that they refused to help him again. They actually shared on their site saying "As you will learn through the series, a member of the Innocence Network is currently looking into some aspects of [Avery's] case." It doe sound like there is a chance that they could decide to help Steven Avery once again, but for now that is not the case.

There is also a lot of confusion of if Brendan Dassey is guilty or was just convinced to give a confession. He did file an appeal, but it was declined and they are still working on this case. His lawyers filed a federal habeas petition, but a judge has yet to rule on this and if things work out Dassey could end up getting out of jail.
Steven Avery is out of money to pay for lawyers and on the show it makes it look like he will do it all on his own. There is now a petition that has been started trying to get the Obama administration to look into Steven Avery's case, but so far they only have around 7,000 signatures and will need a lot more to get Obama to look at this

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