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‘Making A Murderer’ Lawyer Kathleen Zellner Countersues Former Client Lathierial Boyd

‘Making A Murderer’ Lawyer Kathleen Zellner Countersues Former Client Lathierial Boyd

Making A Murderer 2 lawyer Kathleen Zellner has filed a lawsuit against her former client, Lathierial Boyd. As the Inquisitr reported, Boyd sued Zellner for $20 million, claiming the wrongful convictions specialist botched his civil case after he spent over 20 years behind bars for a fatal shooting outside a Chicago nightclub. Now Newsweek has […]

5y ago

‘Making A Murderer’ Lawyer Kathleen Zellner Responds To $20 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Her

‘Making A Murderer’ Lawyer Kathleen Zellner Responds To $20 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Her

With Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey still behind bars for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach, Making A Murderer Season 2 producers turned to Avery’s lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, for much of the content that comprised the second season of the hit Netflix docu-series. That footage presented the wrongful convictions specialist Zellner as a legal pit […]

5y ago

‘Making A Murderer’ Lawyer Preparing Another Motion After Request To Test Bones Generates New Evidence

‘Making A Murderer’ Lawyer Preparing Another Motion After Request To Test Bones Generates New Evidence

In the latest legal back and forth between the state of Wisconsin and Steven Avery’s wrongful conviction lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, the Inquisitr reports Zellner’s request to DNA test mystery bones found in a Manitowoc gravel pit was denied by a state appeals court. Or at least that’s how many outsiders watching the case interpreted the […]

5y ago

‘Making A Murderer’ Lawyer Challenges Wisconsin Attorney General To Allow DNA Testing Of Mystery Bones

‘Making A Murderer’ Lawyer Challenges Wisconsin Attorney General To Allow DNA Testing Of Mystery Bones

Making A Murderer subject Steven Avery’s lawyer Kathleen Zellner has responded to her client’s latest legal setback. As the Inquisitr reports, a Wisconsin appeals court denied her December 17 motion to perform Rapid DNA testing on bones left unidentified since Avery’s original 2006 murder trial. According to Newsweek, Zellner isn’t discouraged by the ruling and […]

5y ago

‘Making A Murderer’: Appeals Court Rejects Steven Avery’s Request For Rapid DNA Testing Of Mystery Bones

‘Making A Murderer’: Appeals Court Rejects Steven Avery’s Request For Rapid DNA Testing Of Mystery Bones

A Wisconsin court of appeals has denied a motion from Making A Murderer subject Steven Avery that requested his case be returned to the circuit court so new scientific testing could be performed. Local news outlet WBAY reports that the court’s decision came on December 28, just hours after the State of Wisconsin filed their […]

5y ago

‘Making A Murderer’: Kathleen Zellner Keeps Focus On Other Suspects In Halbach Killing

‘Making A Murderer’: Kathleen Zellner Keeps Focus On Other Suspects In Halbach Killing

Post-conviction attorney Kathleen Zellner on Monday furthered her claim that there were more viable suspects in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach than Making a Murderer’s Steven Avery. As she alleged this spring, Halbach’s on-again, off-again boyfriend was directly tied to the crime scene. In the 1,200-page motion filed on June 7, she suggested the […]

6y ago

Kathleen Zellner Files Motion To Vacate Order Denying New Trial For Steven Avery

Kathleen Zellner Files Motion To Vacate Order Denying New Trial For Steven Avery

Kathleen Zellner, attorney for Making a Murderer‘s Steven Avery, filed a motion Friday to vacate an earlier decision to deny him a new trial. Zellner, who took Avery’s case in January 2016, asked the court to vacate the order issued Tuesday by Sheboygan County Circuit Judge Angela Sutkiewicz. Zellner is asking the court to relieve […]

6y ago

Kathleen Zellner: Avery, Dassey Cases Much Different

Kathleen Zellner: Avery, Dassey Cases Much Different

While Making a Murderer subjects Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey were convicted of the same offense in the death of Teresa Halbach, their post-conviction cases couldn’t be any different, according to Avery’s post-conviction attorney Kathleen Zellner. “People do not realize that Brendan’s case is 10 years further advanced than Steven’s and is in a very […]

6y ago

Kathleen Zellner Not Shaken By Denial In Steven Avery Case

Kathleen Zellner Not Shaken By Denial In Steven Avery Case

Although the lawyer for Making a Murderer‘s Steven Avery will file a motion to vacate a trial court judge’s decision to deny him a new trial, she says the case will likely be decided elsewhere. Saying Tuesday’s decision was “not a big deal,” Kathleen Zellner turned to Twitter with another message Wednesday, one that indicates […]

6y ago

Kathleen Zellner Addresses Steven Avery Rumor Mill

Kathleen Zellner Addresses Steven Avery Rumor Mill

While detractors of Kathleen Zellner, the attorney for Making a Murderer subject Steven Avery, have had plenty to say about her on social media, the noted post-conviction lawyer says she’s been busy trying to free her client. She also scoffed at specific online threads that suggest she’s had a falling out with filmmakers Moira Demos […]

6y ago

Exonerated Client Of ‘Making a Murderer’ Lawyer Kathleen Zellner Settles Civil Suit Against Prosecutor

Exonerated Client Of ‘Making a Murderer’ Lawyer Kathleen Zellner Settles Civil Suit Against Prosecutor

A man already on the list of those that Chicago lawyer Kathleen Zellner has exonerated has settled a civil lawsuit against a member of the office that brought murder charges against him. Mario Casciaro, who was freed from prison in 2015, settled the civil complaint filed against a member of the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s […]

6y ago

Kathleen Zellner: New Evidence Uncovered In Steven Avery Case

Kathleen Zellner: New Evidence Uncovered In Steven Avery Case

The noted post-conviction lawyer for Making a Murderer subject Steven Avery says she has uncovered even more exculpatory evidence in her bid to free him from prison. Avery is serving life without parole in a Wisconsin prison for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. Zellner told the Inquisitr that new witnesses have come forward, leading […]

6y ago

‘Making a Murderer’ Lawyer Kathleen Zellner Scores Big In Chicago Case

‘Making a Murderer’ Lawyer Kathleen Zellner Scores Big In Chicago Case

The famed exoneration attorney pushing for the release of Making a Murderer subject Steven Avery scored a victory in her home state of Illinois this month. Among Kathleen Zellner’s clients who aren’t Steven Avery is Darryl Fulton, a man convicted of a 1994 rape and murder he and his co-defendant claim they did not commit. […]

6y ago

Kathleen Zellner Explains ‘No Reddit’ Rule For Steven Avery Challenge

Kathleen Zellner Explains ‘No Reddit’ Rule For Steven Avery Challenge

Kathleen Zellner fired back at users of the social media site Reddit on Saturday, two days after she issued the $10,000 Steven Avery Proof of Guilt Challenge. Her comments were in response to several threads on the popular site that accused the lawyer of issuing the challenge as a publicity stunt in her bid to […]

6y ago

Redditors Respond To Kathleen Zellner’s ‘Steven Avery Proof Of Guilt Challenge’

Redditors Respond To Kathleen Zellner’s ‘Steven Avery Proof Of Guilt Challenge’

Although it may only be in jest, some users of the social media site Reddit have attempted to answer the questions asked by post-conviction lawyer Kathleen Zellner as part of her “Steven Avery Proof of Guilt Challenge.” The challenge was issued Thursday to anyone who can successfully answer 100 questions, proving to Zellner that her […]

6y ago

‘Making A Murderer’: Kathleen Zellner ‘Not Ruling Out’ Defamation Suit Over Ex-DA’s Book

‘Making A Murderer’: Kathleen Zellner ‘Not Ruling Out’ Defamation Suit Over Ex-DA’s Book

As the book Avery: The Case Against Steven Avery and What “Making a Murderer” Gets Wrong continues to sell, Avery’s lawyer has been busy refuting its content and may be eyeing a lawsuit against the former prosecutor who wrote it. “Prosecutors have no immunity for defamation after they are no longer the prosecutor on the […]

6y ago

Kathleen Zellner: Ryan Hillegas Theory Originated In 2007

Kathleen Zellner: Ryan Hillegas Theory Originated In 2007

Although Kathleen Zellner is said to have dropped a bombshell last month when she presented Teresa Halbach’s ex-boyfriend as the person who most likely killed her, the lawyer said the idea that Ryan Hillegas was a possible suspect originated in 2007 by Steven Avery’s trial lawyers. “Naming RH as a potential suspect did not originate […]

6y ago

Kathleen Zellner Takes Shot At Tom Fassbender Over Dassey Confession

Kathleen Zellner Takes Shot At Tom Fassbender Over Dassey Confession

Kathleen Zellner continued to rib State of Wisconsin officials involved in convicting Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey of murder in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach. Avery’s noted post-conviction lawyer took a Twitter shot at the co-lead investigator in the case, Tom Fassbender, on Sunday, quipping about his officer’s choice of words when coaxing Dassey […]

6y ago

Steven Avery Lawyer Kathleen Zellner Tweets Jabs At Trial Evidence

Steven Avery Lawyer Kathleen Zellner Tweets Jabs At Trial Evidence

Noted post-conviction lawyer Kathleen Zellner threw several jabs at the evidence presented during the 2007 murder trial of her Making a Murderer client Steven Avery Saturday. “Experiment =’ hood latch swab’ never swabbed a hood latch. Swapping swabs–forensic for dummies,” Zellner tweeted, referring to former District Attorney Ken Kratz’s claim that Avery’s DNA was found […]

6y ago

Steven Avery Responds To Brendan Dassey Coerced Confession Ruling

Steven Avery Responds To Brendan Dassey Coerced Confession Ruling

Steven Avery is “extremely pleased” that the United States Court of Appeals upheld the ruling that his nephew Brendan Dassey’s confession in Teresa Halbach’s murder was coerced, he said via his lawyer Kathleen Zellner. Zellner visited Avery at the Waupun Correctional Institution Friday morning, a day after the ruling. “He’s very pleased, extremely pleased, of […]

6y ago

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