By: Ali Teske//March 3, 2022//
Dean Strang and Jerry Buting have sent a letter to Gov. Tony Evers urging him to exercise his constitutional power to free Brendan Dassey by commuting his sentence.
The attorneys sent the letter on Wednesday. The governor has yet to exercise his ability to commute or cut short a sentence for Wisconsin inmates.
Lawyers for Dassey filed a petition for executive clemency with the Wisconsin Board of Pardons in October 2019. Grounds for clemency included Brendan’s innocence, his false confessions, and the extreme length of his sentence.
Dassey was sentenced to life in prison based on a videotaped confession he gave at age 16 that is now widely scrutinized to be false and inconsistent with the physical evidence at the crime scene. Dassey turned 32 years old on October 19, 2021, and is not eligible for parole until 2048.