Recent documentary making of a murderer. 12 news terry sater is in the newsroom. Federal judge William Duffin essentially found Brendan Dasseys conviction was based on his confession and that the confession violated his constitutional rights. Duffin said in his ruling that investigators made false promises to dassey by assuring him he had nothing to worry about. And the repeated false promises as well as dasseys age and intellectual deficits rendered the confession involuntary. Heres part of the recorded confession where dassey talks about going into his uncles trailer and that steven avery told him what was happening. That Teresa Halbach was back there. That she was on the bed naked. That she was chained up to the bed. Could you hear her back there yet . Yeah. The state has ordered he be freed within three months unless there are new charges or an Steven Averys brother learned about the reversal just moments after visiting avery in prison today. He says he expects Brendan Dassey to be
Is in the Weather Center. Jeremy the humidity will drop tonight and the rain will turn off. We have leftover showers on the doppler 12 radar net work with maybe a sprinkle or two in the metro. Dodge and fond du lac county, our friends at beaver dam are starting with showers. You get one of the areas of yellow on the radar, a quick hitting down for in the northwest corner. I care we have landed transitioning to the n looking from the discovery world camera, 73 degrees and sticky. The dew point at 71. A couple of showers around this morning, but most areas will stay dry. Muggy at midday with temps in the low 80s. We will talk about improvement, coming up. Thema thank you. A Major Development in a wisconsin murder case that got the hit Netflix Series making a murderer. One of the men convicted of teresa halbachs death has his conviction overturned by a federal judge. Brendan dassey is serving a life sentence for halbachs murder. He was convicted in 2005 of helping his uncle, steven avery,
Rights of due process and against selfincrimination. I will highlight a few quotes for you. Judge duffin concludes the state Appeals Court made a mistake in denying dasseys appeal. He writes, the state courts unreasonably found that the investigators never made dassey any promises during the march 1, 2006 interrogation. The investigators repeatedly claimed to already know what happened on october 31 and assured dassey that he had nothing to worry about. These repeated false promises, when considered in conjunction with all relevant factors, most especially dasseys age, intellectual deficits, and the absence of a supportive adult, rendered dasseys confession involuntary. That is a quote. Judge duffin is also highly critical of dasseys lawyer Len Kachinsky calling his misconduct in defending dassey indefensible. But, that alone duffin ruled would not have been enough to in the end, duffin maintains its the unconstitutional questioning of dassey that makes his conviction invalid. He threw
And a very funny lady, former snl cast member jan hooks famous for impressions of everybody from Sinead Oconnor to Tammy Faye Bakker dead at the age of 57. Well remember her life today friday, october 10, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this friday morning. Im tamron hall. Im willie geist along side al and natalie. Matt has the morning off. Savannah enjoying time with baby vale. We saw jan hooks, that was a gut punch to learn we lost her. I came up watching snl. She was one of the funniesfunni she always had this bright laugh and great smile. So sad. Were hearing some of the inspiration from amy poehler. Well talk much more. Straight to our top story. Announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize, two winners including Malala Yousafzai, nbcs keir simmons is in london with mere. Good morning. Reporter good morning. What a stunning moment for an extraordinary young woman, the youngest
Clang clang clang went the trolley jan hooks hilarious for her impression for everyone from Sinead Oconnor to Tammy Faye Bakker dead at the age of 57. Well remember her life today, friday, october 10th, 2014. Announcer live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Im tamron hall. And im willie geist. That was a deth punch that learn we lost her. She was one of the funniest people on the planet. She always had this bright laugh and a great smile. So sad. Young age. Some of the inspiration from people like amy poehler, talking about what jan hooks meant to her. Lets get straight to our top story. The announcement this morning, Nobel Peace Prize, childrens rights activists, Malala Yousafzai. Keir simmons is in london. Good morning. What a stunning moment for an extraordinary young woman, youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, two years almost to the day since she was shot at age just 15 because she was going to school. What a mess