UNDATED (WTAQ) – The man prominently featured in the Netflix series Making A Murderer is blaming his former attorneys for his murder conviction.
In a letter dated July 18 sent to In Touch Weekly, Steven Avery slams his former defense team of Dean Strang and Jerome Buting.
“Dean and Jerome are Bad Attorneys,” Avery writes. “They don’t now what Justice is and they don’t now what is a investigation is because if they did they would have done it for a innocent man like me!!!”
Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were convicted of the 2005 murder of photographer Teresa Halbach.
This news comes on the heels of Netflix’s announcement that a second season of Making A Murderer is in production.
In his current appeal, Avery hired Chicago-area attorney Kathleen Zellner.
In a statement Thursday afternoon, Dean Strang tells WTAQ:
“Because he was in jail before his trial, too, Steven could not know immediately all of the investigative steps we took on his behalf and all of the details of our decision-making on issues committed to his lawyers’ judgment, although we shared everything necessary with him and more. If we were in his shoes, the difficulty of staying immediately involved with all of a lawyer’s efforts would frustrate us, too.
Although Steven has retained new counsel, we will continue to raise awareness of his case and Brendan Dassey’s, and continue to address the systemic problems in our criminal justice system that lead to other wrongful or unreliable convictions. These problems include the effect of class, race or ethnicity, the callous underfunding of indigent defense, the experience of juveniles and those with intellectual impairments, the impact of pretrial publicity on the presumption of innocence, and the obstacles to justice in post-conviction proceedings.”
Strang adds that both he and Buting will, “offer whatever information Mr. Avery’s new lawyers may want or need from us.”
