The defence attorney for Making A Murderer’s Steven Avery has just filed a motion that officially accuses investigators of framing her client.
In addition, lawyer Kathleen Zellner’s motion – according to Newsweek – demands access to “a long list of physical evidence so she can have it all analysed, using advanced scientific tests she says didn’t exist during Avery’s 2007 trial.”
Zellner also reveals that “Mr. Avery has already completed a series of tests that will conclusively establish his innocence”, and that she’ll explain her theory on the identity of the real killer of Teresa Halbach once she has the results of the new tests.
https://twitter.com/ZellnerLaw/status/769271451799216129
You can read the full motion here.
Zellner filed the ‘Motion for Post-Conviction Scientific Testing’ on Friday afternoon at the Manitowoc courthouse in Wisconsin.
The most extraordinary new evidence in Zellner’s case is a Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department report that says Teresa Halbach’s car was sized on November 3, 2005 – two days before it was ‘officially’ found.
“That was a huge discovery because the car doesn’t appear on the Avery property until November 5,” Zellner told Newsweek. “It’s a problem when some of [the investigators] are planting evidence and others are honestly doing their job and documenting their malfeasance.”
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— Making A Murderer (@MakingAMurderer) August 24, 2016
In the motion, Zellner expands on her theory that Avery was framed after Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Deputy, Andrew Colborn, allegedly seized the car on November 3.
“Ms. Halbach’s vehicle was moved from the Fred Radandt Sons, Inc. quarry to the Avery property using the conveyor road that led onto the Avery property from the quarry,” the motion reads.
“Mr. Avery contends that the blood evidence was planted in Ms. Halbach’s car, by law enforcement, prior to the discovery of the vehicle on the Avery property on November 5, 2005.”
His story isn't over. pic.twitter.com/Z0rV2Lid8p
— Making A Murderer (@MakingAMurderer) August 10, 2016
The motion also claims that two “non-law enforcement people” entered the Avery property after it was closed to the public, and those two individuals lied to investigators about seeing a fire on the Avery property and details regarding Halbach’s car.
Steven Avery has spent more than half his life in prison. Will he be exonerated? #MakingAMurdererhttps://t.co/MITCRdD0sE
— Making A Murderer (@MakingAMurderer) June 30, 2016
Zellner is also seeking DNA evidence so they can be tested using more modern technologies than were available a decade ago.
“Since 2007, more sensitive forensic DNA techniques have been developed that can recover sufficient DNA for profiling from…fingerprints,” says the motion, “If the unidentified fingerprints on the victim’s vehicle match either Officer [Andrew] Colborn or Officer [James] Lenk, it would be significant evidence of their involvement in moving the victim’s vehicle onto the Avery property.”
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