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'Making a Murderer'

A federal court in Wisconsin ruled that retired Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Andrew Colborn’s suit against “Making a Murderer” filmmakers and Netflix may proceed. Colborn claims the docuseries led viewers to believe that he framed Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, who were convicted in the rape and murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005.

/ May 26, 2021
In this March 3, 2006, file photo, Brendan Dassey is escorted out of a Manitowoc County Circuit courtroom, in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. A three-judge panel from the Seventh Circuit affirmed on June 22, 2017, that Dassey, a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer," was coerced into confessing and should be released from prison. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in photographer Teresa Halbach's death two years earlier. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

MILWAUKEE — A federal court in Wisconsin ruled that retired Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Andrew Colborn’s suit against “Making a Murderer” filmmakers and Netflix may proceed. Colborn claims the docuseries led viewers to believe that he framed Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, who were convicted in the rape and murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005.

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