Brendan Dassey is having his case taken to the U.S. Supreme Court. Dassey, along with his uncle Steven Avery, was convicted in 2007 for the october 31st 2005 murder of Theresa Halbach,
His legal team consisting of attorneys Steven Drizin, Laura Nerdier (Center On Wrongful Convictions of Youth), former United States Solicitor General Seth Waxman and others have filed a “writ of certiori” meaning they have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago last year. They upheld Dassey’s confession to Halbach’s murder at the Avery Family Auto Salvage Yard near Mishicot, on a 4 to 3 vote saying it was voluntary and his constitutional rights were not violated. That overturned Federal Judge Willam Duffin’s ruling in August 2016, that said investigators used coercive tactics to get Dassey, 16 years of age at the time, to confess.
The U.S. Supreme Court takes a “very small” amount of cases they’re asked to review. Prosecutors in this case, the State Department of Justice, will have the opportunity to respond.