Brendan Dassey has been denied for a bid for pardon, according to Fox News.
Dassey has been in prison for over a decade for the killing of photographer Teresa Halbach.
However, Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin, said he will not consider Dassey’s pardon request due to the fact that he does not meet the necessary criteria.
Dassey, 30-year-old, is known as Steven Avery’s nephew, who is also a convicted murderer.
“Making A Murderer” is a popular docu-series on Netflix that documents the pair’s crimes.
“Unfortunately, we are unable to consider your application for pardon because you do not meet one or more of the required eligibility conditions,” Evers wrote to Dassey in a letter that has since been retrieved by Fox News.
Evers continued by stating that he cannot consider the request for pardon because Dassey has yet to complete his “entire sentence for the convictions,” and because the inmate has yet to be registered as a sex offender.
Both of the above conditions are required in order for a pardon to be considered per Wisconsin law, Evers’ states in the letter.
Back in 2007, Dassey was sentenced to life in prison at the age of 16, after being convicted for rape and murder of Halbach, a magazine photographer.
In the past, Dassey’s lawyers have claimed that investigators took advantage of his youth and intellectual and social disabilities in order to get him to falsely confess that he played a part in assisting Avery rape and kill Teresa Halbach in the Avery family’s junkyard in Manitowoc County.
Despite Dassey and Avery having gained supporters in the years since the documentary regarding their vicious and brutal attack against Halbach, aired on Netflix and went viral on social media, Dassey has since run out of options in the court system following the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to hear his latest appeal.
