Avery's lawyers -- Dean Strang and Jerry Buting -- sent an open letter to Gov. Evers this week urging him to use his constitutional powers to commute Dassey's sentence. "It's time to act as governor, not as part of one," the letter states.
Avery is currently represented by attorney Kathleen Zellner. In January 2022, Zellner said she plans to file a new petition which includes a “huge amount of new evidence.” Otherwise, updates in Avery's case have stalled. In November 2021, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to review Avery's case.
Robert ZellnerKathleen Zellner / Spouse
July 8, 2021Dolores Avery / Died
Many of Zellner's clients are pro bono, which means they do not have to pay legal fees because they have no or very little income. It was after watching the first series of Making A Murderer, she decided she wanted to represent Steven Avery. What you see on screen is a very hands-on lawyer.
Robert ZellnerKathleen Zellner / Husband
In August 2016, United States magistrate judge William E. Duffin ruled that Dassey's confession had been coerced, and was therefore involuntary and unconstitutional, and ordered him released.
“Can you type?” SNCC executive secretary Jim Forman asked Dorothy “Dottie” Miller shortly after she walked into the SNCC office on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. (She later married SNCC's Bob Zellner, becoming Dottie Zellner.)