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    Attorneys for “Making a Murderer” convict push for his release 

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    In this March 3, 2006, file photo, Brendan Dassey is escorted out of a Manitowoc County Circuit courtroom in Manitowoc, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
    MADISON, Wis. (AP) --

    Attorneys for the man convicted of helping his uncle kill a woman in a case profiled in the popular Netflix series "Making a Murderer" are asking for his release while his appeal is pending.

    A 48-page motion filed in federal court argues that Brendan Dassey is not a flight risk and would not pose a danger to the public if he's released.

    A federal magistrate judge ruled in August that investigators tricked Dassey, then 16, into confessing that he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. The judge ordered that Dassey, now 26, be freed within 90 days unless prosecutors appealed or decided to retry him.

    Attorney General Brad Schimel has followed up with an appeal to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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    Opening statements set for Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial

    Friday, April 17, 2026
    Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, April 17, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, Pool)

    Opening statements are set for Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein 's third trial on a New York rape charge.

    Four days of jury selection wrapped up Friday in the case against the former Hollywood powerbroker turned #MeToo pariah. A jury of seven men and five women will be tasked with deciding whether he raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel in 2013.

    Weinstein has pleaded not guilty. The trial is expected to take up to four weeks.

    At 73, the Oscar-winning former movie producer has spent much of the last decade fighting sexual assault cases in New York and Los Angeles.

    He was convicted in both cities, but his initial 2020 New York conviction was overturned. Then jurors at a retrial last year deadlocked on the rape charge, while reaching a mixed verdict on sexual assault charges pertaining to two other women.

    Weinstein denies all the allegations and has appealed his various convictions. He has been behind bars for six years to date.

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