Fans Of Wrongly Accused Man Start Firestorm Aimed At Obama A popular Netflix show watched and followed by thousands of fans have put out a pair of petitions for Obama to grant Steve Avery his freedom. Mr. Averys fans claim that his extraordinary documentary of Making A Murder, with him as the subject, has given light to his innocence. Making a Murderer, which explores the circumstances around his arrest and how he was convicted for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach have moved 180,000 people to ask the president to pardon Steve Avery. The key events at the heart of the documentary were that Avery was originally convicted of sexual assault in 1985, serving 18 years until he was exonerated in 2003 based on DNA evidence. Two years after his exoneration and release, Avery sued theManitowoc County police department for $36 million over his false imprisonment. But in 2005, just weeks after depositions of local cops who were associated with the case and subsequent lawsuit took place, Avery was, again, arrested but this time on an entirely different charge: murder. In a shocking twist of events, Avery went from a well-known exoneree in a sexual assault case to an accused killer. Prosecutors claimed that he murdered Teresa Halbach, 25, a photographer who went to his house to photograph a van for Auto Trader magazine on Oct. 31, 2005. Mr. Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey who was accused of helping in the murder are both serving a life sentence without parole in a Wisconsin penitentiary for Halbachs murder, reported by the New York Times. Averys unconstitutional treatment at the hands of corrupt local law enforcement is completely unacceptable and is an abomination of due process, reads a petition on Change.org, which has garnered roughly 164,000 signatures. Its reported by ABC News that 19,500 petitions have reached the White House website and they need 100,000 by Jan. 19th to require a response to this issue. Petitioners are also asking Obama to pardon Averys nephew, Brendan Dassey, who was separately convicted of sexually assaulting and helping his uncle kill Halbach. Based on the evidence in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, the justice system embarrassingly failed both men, completely ruining their entire lives, the White House petition reads. H/T: The Blaze 