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Tracy Keogh
Brendan Dassey: The Road to Clemency
Incumbent Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker is a career politician with an implacably hard-line stance on clemency. As the Wisconsin...

Tracy Keogh
Wisconsin Primaries and the Wrongful Conviction of Brendan Dassey
August 14th will see the Wisconsin partisan primaries offer ballots requiring the electorate to navigate a litany of candidates across...


Tracy Keogh
Brendan Dassey & The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Fewer maxims have greater resonance in United States common law jurisprudence than the presumption of innocence. Fused at the...

Laura Nirider
Brendan Dassey Attorney Statement
Statement by Brendan Dassey’s attorney Laura Nirider from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth...


Barbara McMahon
Netflix's Making a Murderer: the Brendan Dassey case goes to the US Supreme Court
It was the crime story that gripped millions. Now the US Supreme Court will consider whether a 16-year-old was coerced into confessing....


Tracy Keogh
Advocacy in a World of Wrongful Convictions
Kelly Loudenberg’s topical odyssey “The Confession Tapes” aired in the September of 2017 satiating a global appetite for tales of the...


Allie Goulding
School of Law lawyers in ‘Making a Murderer’ case seek Supreme Court action on juvenile false confes
If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to hear the case of Pritzker lawyer Laura Nirider’s client, Brendan Dassey, it will be the first time...


Tracy Keogh
The Wrongful Conviction of Brendan Dassey and Wisconsin's Political Divide
“The Wisconsin comeback has only just begun” tweeted Wisconsin incumbent Governor, Scott Walker. Walker was first elected Governor in the...

Tracy Keogh
Brendan Dassey's Fight for Freedom Continues
The words ‘Happy Birthday Brendan’ seemed cavernous, as thousands painted social media platforms with wishes of support. It was Brendan’s...


Tracy Keeling
‘Making a Murderer’ documentary is having a huge impact on court cases
In the US, a prospective juror for a murder trial has been eliminated, for watching the documentary series ‘Making a Murderer’. The...