UPDATE: U.S. Magistrate Judge William Duffin granted a motion for release in the Brendan Dassey case. Attorney General Brad Schimel intends to file an emergency motion in the Seventh Circuit seeking a stay of this release order.

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A federal judge has ordered the release of Brendan Dassey.

"It is therefore ordered that Dassey's motion for release...is granted," part of the ruling released Monday reads.

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The district court judge outlined several conditions for Dassey's release, including that he can only travel in the court's Eastern District of Wisconsin, not obtain a passport, not possess a gun or any other weapons, or possess any controlled substances.

Dassey also has been ordered not to have any contact with Steven Avery, or with the family of Teresa Halbach.

Earlier this year, a judge ruled that Dassey's conviction should be thrown out. The state has appealed that ruling, and Dassey's conviction could be reinstated by the state either winning that appeal or taking the case to a full retrial.

Dassey was convicted of several crimes in 2007 in connection with Halbach's death, including being party to first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse, as well as second-degree sexual assault. His attorneys have argued their client's confession was unconstitutionally coerced.

This story is developing - check back often for updated details.</s>A Wisconsin federal judge has ordered that Brendan Dassey, one of the subjects of the hit Netflix docuseries "Making a Murderer," be released from prison on his own recognizance pending the appeal of his 2007 murder conviction.

Dassey, 27, will be freed under the supervision of the US Probation Office, U.S. District Judge William E. Duffin ruled in court documents made public Monday.

Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel said in a statement Monday that he intends to file "an emergency motion" seeking a stay of Dassey's release.

In 2005, Dassey, then 16, confessed to authorities that he assisted his uncle, Steven Avery, in raping and killing photographer Teresa Halbach, whose charred remains were found in November 2005 on Avery family property in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

The case was chronicled in the controversial 10-part Netflix series "Making a Murderer," which suggested that investigators took advantage of Dassey's youth and limited intellect to coax him into confessing to a crime he didn't commit. Court documents stated that Dassey IQ's was "assessed as being in the low average to borderline range."

Dassey, who has been incarcerated at a state prison in Wisconsin, later recanted. 5 things to know about "Marking a Murderer" Judge Duffin overturned Dassey's conviction in August, citing the manner in which the confession was attained. He called it "so clearly involuntary in a constitutional sense that the court of appeals' decision to the contrary was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law." "The court's decision rests on a fundamental principle that is too often forgotten by courts and law enforcement officers: Interrogation tactics which may not be coercive when used on adults are coercive when used on juveniles, particularly young people like Brendan with disabilities," said Dassey's attorneys, Steven A. Drizin and Laura Nirider, in August. Avery, 54, is serving a life sentence at a Wisconsin prison. He has maintained throughout his trial and since that he was framed and is seeking a new trial</s>A US judge has ordered the release of Making A Murderer’s Brendan Dassey, whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series, while prosecutors appeal.

US magistrate judge William Duffin ordered Dassey’s release from prison, contingent upon him meeting multiple conditions.

The judge ruled in August that investigators tricked Dassey into confessing he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape, kill and mutilate photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. The state has appealed that ruling.

Dassey’s lawyer, Steve Drizin, said he had not spoken yet to Dassey, but he hoped to have him out of prison in time to spend Thanksgiving with his family.

“That’s what I’m focused on right now, getting him home, getting him with his family and then helping him to reintegrate back into society while his appeal plays out,” Mr Drizin said.

Wisconsin attorney general Brad Schimel issued a statement saying he would file an emergency motion in the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals to put the release order on hold.

Dassey’s supervised release was not immediate. He had until noon on Tuesday to provide the federal probation and parole office with the address of where he planned to live.

Mr Drizin would not say where Dassey plans to live.

Dassey was 16 when Ms Halbach died. He is now 27.

Judge Duffin ruled in August that investigators made specific promises of leniency to Dassey and that no “fair-minded jurists could disagree”.

He cited one investigator’s comment early in the interview that “you don’t have to worry about things”, plus repeated comments like “it’s OK” and that they already knew what happened.

Mr Schimel, in his appeal, said investigators did not promise leniency and they specifically told Dassey that no promises could be made.

Ms Halbach was killed at Halloween 2005, after she visited the Avery family’s salvage yard in Manitowoc County.

Investigators alleged Avery lured her there by asking her to take photos of a minivan. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007.

Court documents describe him as a slow learner who had poor grades and has difficulty understanding language and speaking.

Avery was convicted in a separate trial and was also sentenced to life in prison. He is pursuing his own appeal.

Their cases gained national attention after Netflix aired Making A Murderer last year. The series spawned widespread conjecture about the pair’s innocence.

Authorities who worked on the cases said the series was biased, but it generated calls from the public to free both men.</s>A federal judge in Wisconsin on Monday ordered the release of Brendan Dassey, who was imprisoned for life for helping his uncle kill a freelance photographer in 2005 in a case spotlighted in the Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer.”

Based on Magistrate Judge William Duffin’s order, Dassey, who has been incarcerated more than a decade, could be released within 90 days unless prosecutors attempt to retry him.

Dassey, now 27, and his uncle, Steven Avery, were convicted in separate trials of killing photographer Teresa Halbach at Avery’s home in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Halbach’s charred remains were found in an incineration barrel and a burn pit on Avery’s property, about 80 miles north of Milwaukee.

Dassey was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse. Avery was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and being a felon in possession of a gun. Dassey was sentenced by the court to life without parole.

In August, Duffin ruled the guilty verdict returned by a trial jury in 2007 against Dassey was based on a coerced confession he gave as a 16-year-old youth with a learning disability.

Duffin said the confession obtained by investigators violated Dassey’s constitutional rights.

Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel on Monday said that he intends to file an emergency motion in the Seventh Circuit seeking a stay of the release order.

The case was the subject of the 10-part Netflix-released documentary “Making a Murderer,” which questioned the handling of the investigation and the motivation of Manitowoc County law enforcement officials, who sent Avery to prison in 1985 for a rape he did not commit.</s>A man whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” has been ordered released from prison while prosecutors appeal.

U.S. Magistrate Judge William Duffin on Monday ordered the release of Brendan Dassey. Duffin ruled in August that investigators tricked Dassey into confessing he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape, kill and mutilate photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. The state has appealed that ruling.

Dassey’s supervised release was not immediate and is contingent upon him meeting multiple conditions. He has until noon Tuesday to provide the federal probation and parole office with the address of where he planned to live.

Dassey was 16 when Halbach died. He’s now 27.</s>A US federal judge has ruled that Making a Murderer's Brendan Dassey should be released from prison, pending an appeal against his overturned conviction.

The 26-year-old will be forced to submit to drug testing and state laws for registered sex offenders, according to the ruling from William E. Duffin.

He will also be banned from contacting the family of Teresa Halbach, as well as his uncle and co-defendant, Steven Avery.

In August Judge Duffin overturned Dassey's conviction for the 2005 murder of Halbach after finding "significant doubts as to the reliability of [his] confession".

The 90-page ruling that Dassey's constitutional rights had been violated during and in the lead up to his trial in 2007 over the murder.

Photographer Halbach went missing on Halloween 2005, with police confirming her charred remains had been discovered in a burn pit on the Avery Salvage Yard in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin ten days later, along with her Toyota RAV4, mobile phone and car keys.

Dassey confessed to helping his uncle Steven Avery rape and murder Halbach during an unsupervised interview with two investigators in March 2006, when he was aged just 16.

He was found guilty of the first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse of Teresa Halbach after a nine day trial in 2007.

Despite today's ruling, Dassey will not be released and immediately and will be forced to submit to a number of conditions, Fox 11 News reported.
• Dassey shall not violate any federal, state, or local law.
• Dassey must appear in court as required and surrender to serve any sentence, as ordered by a court.
• Dassey shall comply with any applicable law regarding sex offender registration.
• Dassey shall be supervised by the United States Probation Office. He shall report as it directs.
• Dassey shall cooperate with the United States Probation Office including being available for any home visit it deems necessary.

He is required to provide the probation and parole office his intended address upon release by midday on Tuesday.

Dassey's case received worldwide attention after the screening of Netflix docudrama Making a Murderer.

In his August ruling overturning the conviction, Judge Duffin claimed Dassey's original confession was involuntary due to the lack of a parent or adult during the interviews.

The teenager's borderline to below average intelligence and the promise of leniency had made the confession unreliable, the judge ruled.

"Dassey’s conduct during the interrogation and his reaction to being told he was under arrest clearly indicate that he really did believe that, if he told the investigators what they professed to already know, he would not be arrested for what he said," judge William E Duffin said.

Following the judge's ruling, Wisconsin state prosecutors confirmed they would be appealing against the overturned conviction.

Making A Murder told the story of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who was wrongly convicted of rape and attempted murder in 1985. He was released thanks to DNA evidence after 18 years behind bars, in 2003.

Steven filed a lawsuit against Mantiwoc County, the sheriff and the district attorney for $36million damanges. When his civil suit was still pending he was arrest and charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach. He was sentenced to life without parole.</s>MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” could be celebrating Thanksgiving at home with his family in Wisconsin after a judge Monday ordered him released from federal prison.

Brendan Dassey’s release was ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge William Duffin even as prosecutors appeal the judge’s earlier ruling overturning Dassey’s conviction. It’s not clear how quickly Dassey will be released. He faces a Tuesday deadline to provide information on where he will live. Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel promised to file an emergency motion in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to keep Dassey behind bars.

Duffin ruled in August that investigators tricked Dassey into confessing he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape, kill and mutilate photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. The state has appealed that ruling and argued Dassey should remain in prison while it was pending.

Dassey was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault and mutilating a corpse. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2007. Court documents describe Dassey as a slow learner who had poor grades and has difficulty understanding language and speaking.

In his August ruling, Duffin said investigators made specific promises of leniency to Dassey and that no “fair-minded jurists could disagree.” Schimel, in his appeal, said investigators didn’t promise leniency and they specifically told Dassey that no promises could be made.

Attorneys are in the process of filing legal briefs in the appeal, which is expected to be argued sometime next year.

State prosecutors argued that in the meantime, Dassey should remain in prison because he’s a serious threat to public safety. But Duffin in ordering Dassey set free cited his “exceedingly benign” prison disciplinary record and the fact that he had no convictions before the Halbach case.

Dassey, now 27, was 16 when Halbach was killed.

The judge ordered Dassey released as soon as the federal probation office approved where he was going to live and “completed whatever additional investigation it deems necessary.” Dassey’s attorney, Steve Drizin, said he didn’t know how long that would take but he hoped Dassey would be free by Thanksgiving, which was just 10 days away.

“That’s what I’m focused on right now, getting him home, getting him with his family and then helping him to re-integrate back into society while his appeal plays out,” Drizin said.

Dassey had until noon Tuesday to provide the federal probation and parole office with the address of where he plans to live. Drizin but would not say exactly where Dassey would be living.

Given that his family lives in northeast Wisconsin, there is little chance Dassey will try to flee, the judge said. Under the judge’s order, Dassey would be forbidden from having contact with Avery or Halbach’s family.

Mike Halbach, Teresa’s brother, and Barb Janda, Dassey’s mother, did not return calls for comment.

Dassey would have to meet numerous other conditions, including reporting to a probation officer, not owning a gun or other weapon, being available for home visits and getting approval before moving. Any travel outside of eastern Wisconsin would have to be approved by the court and Dassey could not get a passport.

Halbach was killed after she visited the Avery family’s salvage yard in Manitowoc County. Investigators allege Avery lured her there by asking her to take photos of a minivan.

Avery was convicted in a separate trial and was also sentenced to life in prison. He’s pursuing his own appeal.

Their cases gained national attention after Netflix aired “Making a Murderer” last year. The series spawned widespread conjecture about the pair’s innocence. Authorities who worked on the cases said the series was biased, but it generated calls from the public to free both men.

Follow Scott Bauer on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sbauerAP and find more of his work at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/scott-bauer</s>MADISON, Wis. — A man convicted as a teen in the case featured in "Making a Murderer" faces a deadline to tell authorities where he plans to live now that a judge has ordered his release.

Brendan Dassey had until noon Tuesday to give probation officers the address. A judge in August overturned Dassey's conviction and on Monday said he should be released while prosecutors appeal.

It's not clear when Dassey will be released. Authorities may need to inspect the site.

Dassey's attorney, Steve Drizin, says he expects Dassey to be home by Thanksgiving.

Dassey was convicted of helping his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Teresa Halbach. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison for the 2005 slaying.

The case gained attention after Netflix aired a series about it last year.
A judge orders the release of Brendan Dassey, the subject of the Netflix series Making a Murderer. Wisconsin's Attorney General announces he intends to file an emergency appeal.