'Making A Murderer's' Brendan Dassey Conviction Overturned

Story out of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin:

Brendan Dassey, who was convicted along with his uncle, Steven Avery, in the murder of Teresa Halbach, had that conviction overturned Friday by a federal magistrate judge in Milwaukee.

The shocking ruling, in a case made famous in the Netflix series "Making A Murderer," could result in Dassey getting a new trial or being freed from prison. It gives prosecutors 90 days to decide whether to retry Dassey, although an appeal could extend the proceedings.

In his 91-page decision, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Duffin was highly critical of investigators, (him and everyone else who watched the doc) Dassey's pretrial attorney and the state courts on how they handled the case, concluding that Dassey's constitutional rights were violated. He found that the prosecutor's investigators made false promises to Dassey during multiple interrogations. Cont.

Story from - Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel