Very sad to learn that Steven Avery’s mother Dolores Avery passed away this morning. 😢
She was a strong woman who captured the hearts of millions of
#MakingAMurderer
viewers with her love & unfailing dedication to her son.
May she Rest In Peace. 🙏🏼🕊
#FreeStevenAvery
KZ’s Dec 20 ct app brief is postponed. She filed ct app motion today to remand to allow newly devised rapid DNA test of bones in gravel pit that KK claimed weren’t human. KZ believes they are TH & would refute State’s theory she was killed & burned in SA burn pit.
#askZellner
I applaud the dedication of so many online advocates digging into SA & BD case, filing FOIA requests, scrutinizing details. Wish we’d had this army of supporters before trial. Thousands of minds are better than two. You are helping KZ’s efforts. Keep it up.
#MakingAMurderer
Our message to Gov Evers: “By constitutional design, you can be a governor of grace, not of cruelty or cowardice. We urge you now to be exactly that,” Dean Strang & Jerry Buting wrote in a letter to the governor asking him to shorten Brendan’s sentence
State filed a response to Steven Avery’s post-conviction motion yesterday, and…wait for it…they want it denied without an evidentiary hearing. 🙄 State desperately wants to keep the public from watching their lies exposed
#MakingAMurderer
#IllusionOfJustice
@ZellnerLaw
Jury finds Len Kachinsky not guilty of felony stalking.
In other words, a lawyer did for him what he never seriously tried to do for Brendan Dassey.
#MakingAMurderer
#FreeBrendanDassey
WI’s phobia of an evidentiary hearing in Avery’s case can only be because they know truth would be revealed. Better to cover up
#corruptiwoc
than seek real justice. But it will only increase public distrust of American justice.
#makingamurderer
#illusionofjustice
#brokensystem
Prosecutors knew all along about alternative suspects and hid it from defense. Even after Adnan’s case gained national attention on “Serial” it’s taken 7 years to come out and his conviction to be overturned. Sound familiar?
#IllusionOfJustice
State’s response to Avery’s
@ZellnerLaw
petition opposes SCOW review, claiming SA was not treated differently because his case was “the subject of a television show.”
Really? In no other case has WI fought so desperately to avoid any evidentiary hearing.
Disappointing as today’s decision is for American justice, Dassey has more options; don’t give up hope. Newly discovered evidence & Brady violations in SA case will apply to him. Truth will prevail. Best of all, he still has
@SDrizin
&
@LauraNirider
.
#MakingAMurderer
@ZellnerLaw
@JButing
Of all the nonsense you swam upstream against, I just can’t fathom how you and Dean managed your anger and carried on after Debra Kakatsch was dismissed as an irrelevant witness? Were there other moments worse than this where your blood was boiling?!
#MakingAMurderer2
Hope suit survives motion to dismiss & goes to wide open civil discovery.
@MCGriesbach
please do depos of AC & KK on
#payperview
Millions will watch. Definitely won’t repair any Manitowoc Co reputations, but will help retire taxpayers debt from SA’s coming suit.
#makingamurderer
Having read
@ZellnerLaw
brief, in my opinion she does a thorough job. At minimum, her motion demands an evidentiary hearing, which the State desperately wants to avoid. Ct App should reverse & order new trial or hearing with a new judge.
#MakingAMurderer
#Kratzunderoath
🙋🏻♂️🤗
Jury tampering is a very serious threat to fair trial. Judge knew sheriff was at restaurant & in juror’s room, in violation of bailiff’s oath to keep jury separate. Still outraged defense was told of neither violation.
#CorruptiwocCounty
#MakingaMurderer
Loved MaM2 including coroner Kakatsch story. MTSO finally found someone they didn’t want on scene, even though she was ONLY county person w/ NO conflict from SA lawsuit. As with most defense evidence, judge “couldn’t see relevance” 🙄 & barred her testimony.
#MakingAMurderer2
Steven Avery has tested positive for COVID-19, and is confined to his cell. But
@SandyGreenman
reports he only had short-lived symptoms & is in good spirits. 🙏🏼 for speedy recovery and quick justice.
#FreeStevenAvery
Note: until Avery’s sentencing Judge Willis (like the public) had never seen BD’s interrogations. We filed the DVD’s for Willis to review after KK publicly claimed after BD trial that Avery was responsible for the horrific attack described. Willis agreed forensics proved it false
During Avery’s trial & sentencing, Judge Willis reviewed Brendan’s interrogation video & confession. Then took the extraordinary step of writing & placing in Avery’s case file a letter asking any future readers to “keep the following in mind when reading Mr. Dassey’s statements.”
Who to believe?
@ZellnerLaw
or KK?
KK (aka Exboytoy1): “Hey, nymph, wanna go on a date with me to an autopsy? Be sure to wear sexy heels.”
LadyJustice1776: “🤮so wrong on so many levels!”
Source: actual DOJ investigation reports here:
#MakingAMurder2
Kratz lies whenever he speaks. He lost his career & reputation long before MaM, when he sexually harassed victims in cases he prosecuted & 15 women came forward. MaM just revealed his true character & his wrongful prosecution of innocent BD & SA.
#Ibelieve15women
#MakingAMurderer
Mr. Kratz needs to brush up on Judge Ludwig’s opinion. Netflix & the creators of MaM, Ricciardi & Demos, have been vindicated. There was no distortion or falsification in the series.
#TruthWins
#MakingaMurderer
@JButing
@JFerak
Cops own testimony was that their very 1st entry was a two and a half hour thorough search of Avery’s trailer with 4 cops, no key found. Anyone who knows the facts, yet doesn’t accept that cops planted TH key in SA’s bedroom has their head stuck somewhere ...
AVERY UPDATE: judge granted
@ZellnerLaw
request to file a reply to state’s response to her post-conviction motion. State doesn’t want there to be an evidentiary hearing on the motion. If case is so strong, what do they fear? KZ’s reply is due January 26, 2023.
#MakingaMurderer
Hmmm...the very words in AC’s defamation complaint against MaM/Netflix read suspiciously like a pamphlet written by a certain former Wisconsin lawyer who is now suspended & unauthorized to practice law. 🤔 👻 😉
#MakingAMurderer
Avery wins remand order from Ct. App! Court rejected State's motion to deny remand & delay bones issue for later.
"Due to this case's extensive history, there is a benefit to having existing claims developed or litigated while they are relatively fresh..."
New development:
The state never disclosed this witness to Steven Avery’s trial lawyers. If credible, unquestionably this witness would have destroyed state’s case against Avery & Brendan Dassey.
@ZellnerLaw
@johnferak
#MakingaMurderer
#FreeStevenAvery
This is first I have seen of surveillance video during atty-client jail mtg with SA. This was confidential mtg room reserved for attys, no camera was visible & no notice that we were being recorded. Thanks
@Ken723Ken
for deciding to
#workwithKZ
by releasing this. 🤗
@ZellnerLaw
Very excited to announce launch of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences (CIFS), a nonprofit I formed w/ Dean Strang & UW Law’s Keith Findley to improve forensic science in America & exclude bogus forensic evidence🔬⚖️
#makingamurderer
#cjreform
In layman’s terms: State wants to avoid a hearing on this where they have to explain why they gave to Halbach family quarry bones that KK claimed at trial were non-human. KZ wants to prove with new DNA technique they were TH, as further proof she wasn’t burned at SA’s property.
@njpud75
@ZellnerLaw
State doesn’t want remanded for hearing on how and why they destroyed quarry bones, in violation of biological evidence preservation law & due process.
Convicting a Murderer may have a fair point: a great many credible allegations of sexual abuse were omitted from Making a Murderer. But in defense of Ricciardi & Demos, MaM really was not supposed to be about Ken Kratz. 😂
#15women
#makingamurderer
@ZellnerLaw
A sad birthday today for Steven Avery after losing his mother. But he was blessed with her constant love & devotion, traveling all over WI & even TN to visit him in prison when housed out of state. He will surely cherish the time he had with her.
#MakingAMurderer
#FreeStevenAvery
Theme of Convicting a Murderer is to trash Avery based largely on inadmissible rumors & gossip. One interviewee expressly stated: “it was just bar talk. I had no proof that she said it or proof that it really did happen, it’s just what my friend told her.”
It’s another Brady violation. As usual in these cases, a stroke of luck defense ever found out. A new records clerk apparently made mistake & included Sowinski’s call in new open records request in May 2022. The call was hidden from us before trial & from
@ZellnerLaw
until now.
The court of appeals today granted
@ZellnerLaw
request for both a word & filing date extension. Avery’s reply brief is now due June 25th & the brief length has been extended from the usual 3000 words to 9000.
#MakingaMurderer
A prosecutor who deliberately withheld exculpatory evidence in a high profile murder case got only 90 days suspension of her law license. She is immune from civil liability so this is her only punishment. It's no wonder Brady is so often ignored by DA's.
When 57 cops resign from a unit in SUPPORT of 2 cops suspended after video shows them push a 75 yoa man to the ground (& no one helps him) you’ve got a big problem with your department.🙄
#buffaloprotest
End of the road for Gage County, Nebraska taxpayers, who owe Beatrice 6 wrongly convicted defendants $28 million. Manitowoc County taxpayers will owe much more than that to SA & BD, increasing each day.
#meterisrunning
@ZellnerLaw
#MakingAMurderer
After being delayed one week, SCOTUS will conference on
#MakingAMurderer
Brendan Dassey case this Thursday. We should know Monday, 6/25, at 9:30 whether certiorari is being accepted or denied.
@LawCrimeNetwork
@lawcrimenews
Reply brief of
@ZellnerLaw
has been filed. Responds well to the State’s claims that material facts are unproven: that’s precisely why an evidentiary hearing must be held. Ct App likely to order a full hearing with testimony from witnesses & new judge.
#MakingAMurderer
New filing today from
@ZellnerLaw
in Avery’s appeal. Last Friday she received 300 pgs of CASO evidence custody records, which prove that bone fragments were released to Weigert on 9/20/11. Appeal was still pending, yet SA attys (& Court) were never notified.
#MakingaMurderer
Could this huge new Brady decision affect SA? You bet! Circuit ct denied
@ZellnerLaw
motion saying JB/DS had (unreadable) hard drive copy of Bobby computer, so exculpatory CD report not in State’s exclusive possession & control. SCOW now repudiates this argument
#makingamurderer
Supreme Court of Wisconsin Issues What Might Be the Most Important Brady Ruling in 17 Years, Shifting the Focus From Defense Diligence to Prosecutorial Misconduct:
Strong arguments by
@ZellnerLaw
in Avery's petition for review. CtApp decision: (1) imposed higher burden on SA than others, (2) State duty to disclose evidence imposes no duty of diligence on defense, (3) bad faith must be presumed when state breaks law .
The Illusion of Justice continues, with the horrific decision of 4 judges on 7th Cir. to uphold Brendan Dassey's conviction. Dissenting Judge Wood proclaims: "Dassey will spend the rest of his life in prison because of the injustice this court has decided to leave unredressed."
For those wondering what happens next in Avery's appeal:
State response to petition for review due in 14 days. WI Supreme Ct has no time limit to decide whether to review. If review granted, more briefs & oral argument. If review denied, federal habeas is next.
@ZellnerLaw
This cop was so confident framing people you can tell he’d been doing it to hundreds of innocent people. Right in front of his partner, who probably knew. Likewise, I believe Manitowoc’s brazen evidence planting against SA probably came after years of successful corruption.
#boycottOxygen
for its outrageous choice of Nancy Grace as host of a show about wrongful convictions. She’s the queen of innuendo, character assassination & false accusations against wrongly accused persons.
.
@NancyGrace
not only insists on Brendan Dassey’s guilt, but Len Kachinsky also went on her show to talk about how “there is, quite frankly, no defense.”
Can’t believe you couldn’t find a better host for a wrongful convictions series,
@oxygen
. I’ll be watching something else.
I think we’re all waiting for a public statement from KK that he supports DOJ going to court to request Brendan’s sentence be reduced to time served. Not next year, but NOW! Show us how “badly” you feel for the Dassey family. Barring that, stfu
@Ken723Ken
#MakingAMurderer
@Ken723Ken
@JButing
I think you should educate yourself on false confessions. Could be enlightening for you. Not sure what a photo with your name proves.