UNDATED (WTAQ) – The White House has formally responded to several online petitions asking President Obama to pardon Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach.
More than 150,000 signatures have been submitted to the White House in the wake of the popular Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer.”
The response, which you can read here, states the president cannot pardon state prisoners. The pardon, it reads, would need to be issued at the state level by appropriate authorities.
Earlier this week, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker told the media that he won’t pardon Avery or Dassey.
“Just because a documentary on TV says something doesn’t mean that’s actually what the evidence shows,” Walker said. “The bottom line is that there was a crime that was committed a decade ago. There is a system in the judicial system by which individuals can petition the courts to get relief like others have done in the past that shows that someone might actually be innocent. But I am not going to override a system that is already put in place.”
