Steven Avery
American man convicted of murder and previously wrongly convicted of rape
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| 2023 | The Daily Wire released 'Convicting a Murderer', a documentary produced and hosted by Candace Owens criticizing the Netflix documentary's handling of Steven Avery's case. |
| 2022 | Avery was transferred to Fox Lake Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison. |
| August 16 2022 | Zellner filed a 149-page third motion for post-conviction relief, claiming new witnesses and alleging prosecutorial misconduct in the Halbach murder case. |
| July 28 2021 | The Court of Appeals for Wisconsin affirmed the Circuit Court's denial of Steven Avery's extensive brief filed by Zellner. |
| February 26 2019 | The Wisconsin Court of Appeals granted Avery's petition to remand his case back to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing on his motion for a new trial. |
| December 2018 | Andrew Colborn, a former Manitowoc County police officer, sued Netflix and the documentary series producers for defamation, alleging the series omitted and distorted material to portray him as corrupt. The suit was later dismissed. |
| October 19 2018 | Netflix released the second season of 'Making a Murderer' documentary series. |
| June 25 2018 | U.S. Supreme Court denies certiorari for Dassey's case. |
| February 20 2018 | Dassey's legal team files a petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| October 3 2017 | Avery's motion for a new trial was summarily denied without an evidentiary hearing. |
| June 2017 | Wisconsin prosecutors appeal the decision to overturn Dassey's conviction. |
| June 7 2017 | Zellner filed a 1,272-page post-conviction motion citing ineffective assistance of counsel, Brady violations, and new expert affidavits challenging the original murder conviction. |
| November 23 2016 | Judge Angela Sutkiewicz signed a stipulation and order for scientific testing to proceed. |
| August 2016 | A federal judge overturns his nephew Brendan Dassey's conviction, claiming the confession was coerced. |
| August 26 2016 | Zellner filed a motion with the Manitowoc County circuit court for post-conviction scientific testing. |
| January 2016 | Chicago attorney Kathleen Zellner, in collaboration with the Midwest Innocence Project, filed a new appeal for Avery, citing due process rights violations. |
| January 2016 | People magazine reported potential jury bias in Avery's trial, noting that one juror was the father of a Manitowoc County sheriff's deputy and another juror's wife was a county clerk. |
| December 18 2015 | Netflix released 'Making a Murderer', a ten-episode documentary series examining Avery's and Dassey's investigations and trials, which alleged police and prosecutorial misconduct, evidence tampering, and witness coercion. |
| 2013 | The Wisconsin Supreme Court denied a motion to review Avery's trial ruling. |
| March 26 2013 | Radiolab public radio program aired a 24-minute segment titled 'Reasonable Doubt', exploring Steven Avery's story from Penny Beerntsen's perspective, focusing on his wrongful conviction for sexual assault in 1985. |
| 2012 | Avery was transferred from the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel to the Waupun Correctional Institution in Waupun. |
| August 2011 | A state appeals court denied Steven Avery's petition for a new trial. |
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