Throughout the book, Cicchini provides extensive insight to readers, illuminating details of the case unknown to even dedicated viewers of the well-known documentary series. As is evident from the title, despite Dassey's conviction and failed appeals, Cicchini views Dassey as innocent and Dassey's confession as false.
Additionally, Dassey confessed during police interrogation due to his youthful desire to please authority and his mistaken belief that telling officers what they wanted to hear would lead to his freedom. Brendan Dassey, a young man whose IQ places him in a category approaching disability, was read his Miranda rights.
"The courts have failed Brendan repeatedly and at every level," the letter said. "We ask you to exercise the power that only you have: to free him. We ask you to do it now." In 2007, at the age of 17, Dassey was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the sexual assault and murder of Teresa Halbach.
In 2007, Dassey, 32, was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty in the death of Halbach, a 25-year-old photographer who had disappeared two years earlier. Dassey won't be eligible for release until 2048, when he will be 59.
Avery was exonerated and released from prison in September 2003. Soon after he filed the civil lawsuit, claiming police misconduct and civil rights violations. A day after Halbach's car was found, police arrested Avery for possessing firearms with felony convictions, which included burglary.
More damning still: Avery's nephew, 16-year-old Brendan Dassey, confessed to police that he and Avery had raped and killed Halbach.
The court on Wednesday denied Avery's petition for review without commenting. Avery, 59, is serving life in prison for killing Theresa Halbach, 25, on his family's property on Halloween 2005.
Steven Avery, 58, and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, 31, are serving life in prison for Halbach's murder. The case gained widespread attention after it was featured in Netflix's docuseries "Making a Murderer," released in 2015.
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Although he recanted the confession during his criminal trial, Dassey was ultimately convicted of being party to a first-degree murder, mutilation of a corpse, and second-degree sexual assault. He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years.
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59 years (July 9, 1962)Steven Avery / Age