'Making a Murderer' subject asks Wisconsin gov for clemency
(CNN) - Brendan Dassey, the man whose murder conviction is at the center of Netflix's "Making a Murderer," is petitioning for clemency after spending more than a decade in prison. Dassey's attorney Laura Nirider announced Wednesday his defense had filed a petition for clemency with Wisconsin Gov. He was convicted of her murder in 2007 and has been serving a life sentence in a Wisconsin prison ever since. She said Dassey's attorney, Len Kachinsky, pressured his client into pleading guilty after Dassey was coerced into making a false statement. In November that same year, the Wisconsin attorney general filed a motion to release him from prison under the supervision of the US Probation Office.