Additional 'Making a Murderer' episodes to air; lawyer says new evidence will be revealed
The lawyer for a Wisconsin man whose murder case was chronicled in the Netflix series Making a Murderer says new evidence will be revealed in additional episodes.
Netflix announced earlier this week that it is producing new episodes of the series, which examined the murder conviction of Wisconsin man Steven Avery, the New York Times reports.
Avery was convicted of murder in 2007 after he was exonerated on a rape charge that sent him to prison for 18 years. The documentary raised questions about the murder conviction, gained with some investigative help from the sheriff’s department that Avery was suing in a wrongful conviction case.
Lawyer Kathleen Zellner represents Avery. In a statement she gave to People magazine, Zellner said she is optimistic about the portrayal of her client’s case in the new episodes. “The new Netflix episodes will reveal all of the new evidence we have developed to show Steven is innocent and was framed for a second time,” Zellner says.
Zellner also commented in a tweet after the Netflix announcement. “The best is yet to come,” she wrote.
The best is yet to come. #MakingAMurderer https://t.co/YbmrVgYAn2
— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) July 19, 2016
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