Steven Avery files appeal asking for murder conviction to get tossed out

The Wisconsin man, who is the subject of the Netflix sensation Making a Murderer, has filed a new appeal asking for his murder conviction to be thrown out. “He’d beat me.” Stachowski said she was so desperate to get away from Avery, she once ate two boxes of rat poison so she could go to the hospital and get help from police.

But, he has now appealed his conviction claiming authorities used an improper warrant and a juror was out to get him, in a letter riddled with spelling errors.

Avery, who had spent time in prison for a rape before being cleared of that crime, maintains he didn’t kill Halbach, a free-lance photographer.

Both Avery’s and Dassey’s cases were featured in the gripping Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer”. The series calls into question the investigation and trial that put Avery and his nephew, Dassey, behind bars, and alleges that the investigators and police in the case planted evidence and otherwise manipulated the outcome of the trial.

“If you pick and choose and edit clips over a 10-year span, you’re going to be able to spoon-feed a movie audience so they conclude what you want them to conclude”, he said.

Avery was released in 2003 and filed a lawsuit against Manitowoc County for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.

Walker, a former Republican presidential candidate, said last week that he was not swayed by the online petitions for Avery’s exoneration at the Change.org website.

Avery’s latest legal move – calling for him to be released on bail – comes after he exhausted his appeal options through the Wisconsin court system.

Zellner said on Friday she is teaming up with the Midwest Innocence Project.

What makes the piece so engrossing, however, is that many viewers believe that Steven is actually innocent – or at the very least, the victim of an unjust trial. He represented himself when he filed the appeal, although he is now being represented by a Chicago-area attorney. Wisconsin prosecutors and law enforcement have accused the documentary directors of cherry-picking the evidence to cast it in a light favorable to Avery.