Brendan Dassey, one of the subjects of hit Netflix docuseries "Making a Murderer" will be released from prison on his own cognizance post murder conviction. In 2005, Dassey, 16 then, confessed to assisting his uncle Steven Avery in raping and killing photographer Teresa Halbach.
Dassey, 27, will be freed under the supervision of the US Probation Office according to the court documents that had been made public. His IQ was assessed as being low average, CNN reported.
Dassey's case was chronicled in the controversial Netflix series which suggested that his investigators took advantage of his youth and limited intellect to coax him into confession of a crime he did not commit. Later, he recanted his confession after his incarceration at a state prison in Wisconsin.
Described as a slow learner who had poor grades and has had difficulty in understanding and speaking language, Dassey was later convicted of first-degree intentional homicide and second-degree sexual assault and mutilating a corpse, and was sentenced to life imprisonment, Telegraph reported.
U.S. District Judge William E. Duffin ruled that the confession of Dassey was "involuntary in a constitutional sense that the court of appeals' decision to the contrary was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law." Duffin said that Dassey had been tricked into confession. Duffin said that investigators made specific promises of leniency which no "fair minded jurists could disagree."
Meanwhile, State prosecutors denied that such promises had been made. Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel filed a motion seeking to stay the release.
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