Petition calls for pardon for subject of Netflix series ‘Making a Murderer’

Due to suspicious circumstances, alternative and untapped suspects, unabashed coercion, and seemingly corrupt officials, there are even two petitions circulating that call for President Obama to give Avery and Dassey presidential pardons.

Meanwhile, the second is a formal petition to the White House, that requires 100,000 signatures in order to ensure that White House staff will review it and issue an official response.

Although Avery was found not guilty on the charge of mutilating a corpse, the jury still decided the man who previously spent 18 years behind bars for a rape he didn’t commit was guilty of murdering Halbach, as well as illegally possessing a firearm.

Avery is now serving a life sentence for killing Halbach.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock over the festive season you’ve probably spotted friends and family recommending Netflix‘s massively popular Making A Murderer on every social media channel known to man.

The White House petition, published on December 20, states: “This (Avery’s case) is a black mark on the justice system as a whole, and should be recognised as such, while also giving these men the ability to live as normal a life as possible”.

After spending 18 years in prison after being wrongly accused of sexual assault, Mr Avery pursued a $36 million lawsuit against the police. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed petitions supporting Avery. Manitowoc County remains confident in the conviction of Steven Avery for the murder of Tersea Halbach.

In Ricciardi’s retelling, that former juror allegedly told them: “They believe that Steven Avery was not proven guilty”. As for the change.org petition, which has reached more than 150,000 signatures, argues for the “unconstitutional mistreatment” of the prisoners.

The series depicts the arrests and trials of Steven Avery and his teen nephew, Brendan Dassey, in the murder of an Auto Trader magazine photographer last believed to have been taking photos of a vehicle on the Avery property. In an interview with Wisconsin’s Fox 11 News, he said, “I believe there to be 80 to 90 percent of the physical evidence, the forensic evidence, that ties Steven Avery to this murder never to have been presented in this documentary”.

The series alone is not enough grounds to retry Avery, Kratz added.