Brendan Dassey, who was found guilty of assisting in a 2005 murder in Wisconsin on the basis of a confession that his lawyers say was coerced, will not be getting his case reconsidered by the Supreme Court.
Dassey’s case was featured in a Netflix documentary called Making a Murderer, which cast doubt on the validity of his conviction, as well as that of his uncle, Steven Avery.
Over the past two years, a lower court and a three-judge panel of an appeals court both found that Dassey’s confession was involuntary and that he should be released.
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