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'''Brendan Ray Dassey''' (born October 19, 1989) is an American who was convicted of murdermurderer <!-- DO *NOT* CHANGE THIS WORDING WITHOUT FIRST SEEKING CONSENSUS ON THE TALK PAGE.--->from [[Manitowoc County, Wisconsin]], who, at age 16, was a party to first-degree murder, mutilation of a corpse, and second-degree sexual assault. He was sentenced to life in prison, with the earliest possibility of parole in 2048.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3ab0384d21704517b7daf97a485f1416/timeline-events-brendan-dassey-case | date = | accessdate = September 12, 2016 | title= A Timeline of events in the Brendan Dassey case}}</ref> His videotaped interrogation and confession, which he recanted at trial,<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.techinsider.io/making-a-murderer-brendan-dassey-confession-2016-1 |title=‘Making a Murderer’: Brendan Dassey Confession |website=[[Tech Insider]] |date= |accessdate=July 17, 2016}}</ref> substantially contributed to his conviction. Parts were shown in the Netflix documentary series ''[[Making a Murderer]]'' (2015). The series examined the 2005–2007 investigation, prosecution and trials of Dassey and his uncle, [[Steven Avery]], who were both convicted of murdering photographer [[Teresa Halbach]] on October 31, 2005.
After his conviction, Dassey's case was taken by the [[Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth]]. In August 2016, a federal magistrate judge ruled that Dassey's confession had been coerced, overturned his conviction, and ordered him released, which was delayed during appeal. In June 2017, a divided panel of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]] affirmed the magistrate's order overturning Dassey's conviction. In December 2017, the full ''[[en banc]]'' Seventh Circuit upheld Dassey's conviction by a vote of 4–3, with the majority finding that the police had properly obtained Dassey's confession.
