Great news broke the evening as it was confirmed a federal judge ordered that Dassey be released from custody.
The news has been celebrated by fans of Making a Murderer and naturally all eyes turned to the shows defense team; attorneys Jerry Buting and Dean Strang.
As the news broke, Buting took to Twitter to express his joy.
Brendan Dassey writ granted to reverse his conviction. Justice finally strikes!
— Jerome Buting (@JButing) August 12, 2016
Fans of the show are also celebrating on Twitter.
Wow, Brendan Dassey conviction overturned!! Great news. Now, let the real truth unravel! #FreeStevenAvery
— Thomas Parker (@TomParker) August 12, 2016
O’Donovan brothers win Olympic silver AND Brendan Dassey’s conviction overturned
What a bloody day!
— SportsJOE.ie (@SportsJOEdotie) August 12, 2016
Brendan Dassey’s conviction has been overturned according to reports. That’s a bit wow #MakingAMurderer
— Niall McGarry (@MrNiallMcGarry) August 12, 2016
Get Brendan Dassey to WrestleMania right now
— Sean Robby (@SRobby2) August 12, 2016
The biggest thing about Making a Murderer was the wrongness of Brendan Dassey’s conviction. Steven Avery’s was murky. Dassey’s malicious.
— Michael Castillo (@MichaelCastFS) August 12, 2016
@Allison_ShirkNJ @journalsentinel pic.twitter.com/kAaT40YxSx
— Katie Kustura (@KatieKustura) August 12, 2016
@journalsentinel I hope he moves as far away as he can, somewhere he can start fresh.
— allison s (@allisoncc) August 12, 2016
Justice! But bittersweet – over 10 yrs of an innocent life gone.
We Must Do Better.
Brendan Dassey #MakingAMurderer pic.twitter.com/4CMCZB31cD— Laura (@CatEyesStalking) August 12, 2016
It’s about freaking time!!!! #justiceforbrendan #MakingAMurderer https://t.co/Wa5SV8S5KP
— Lisa Sturdevant (@LisaSturd) August 12, 2016
And while Steven Avery’s fate still remains unknown, creators of Making a Murderer confirmed that they would continue producing the documentary.
Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, stated that they are gathering new evidence with the view to producing further episodes.
Speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour, Ricciardi said:
“I think today marks four weeks since the series launched and what we’ve managed to do in the past four weeks is have several phone calls with Steven Avery which we have recorded with an eye toward including them in future episodes,”
“As we said before, in relation to this story, this story is ongoing, these cases are open,” said Demos. “It’s real-life so you don’t know what’s going to happen. If there are significant developments, we will be there. And we are looking at other stories, as well.”
Netflix chief content editor Ted Serandos confirmed his interest in pursuing a second series.
“The story is still unfolding, so we’ll certainly take a look at it” he said.
