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Requestsubmittedfor Dassey’s releaseProsecutors have until 5 p.m. Monday to file a response to the petitionTODD RICHMOND and STEVE KARNOWSKIAssociated PressAttorneys for a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” petitioned for his immediate release Friday after a federal appeals court ruled that his confession was coerced.Lawyers for Brendan Dassey filed papers Friday with the Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals asking that he be released on his own recognizance, saying Thursday's decision by a three-judge appeals panel left no reason for further delays.The court gave prosecutors until 5 p.m. Monday to file a response.Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in photographer Teresa Halbach’s death on Halloween two years earlier. Dassey told detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Halbach at the Avery family's Manitowoc County salvage yard. Avery was sentenced to life in a separate trial.Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel said earlier Friday that the state would take whatever steps are necessary to keep Dassey behind bars. He said it would be dangerous to release him, given the seriousness of the crime. Speaking on WTMJ-AM, Schimelsaid his initial move would be asking the full 7th Circuit to review the panel’s decision.A federal magistrate judgeRlMMSMDASflY,Paf«A4Dassey
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