Making a Murderer attorney @jbuting talked to Seamus

Apr 08, 2016, 04:38 PM

The crime documentary Making a Murderer attracted enormous attention when it was shown on Netflix recently. The 10-part series tells the story of Steven Avery, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 18 years for sexual assault in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Not long after he was released he was charged with the murder of a photographer Teresa Halbach despite evidence at his trial that he was framed by the police. He's serving a life sentence . He now has a new lawyer. Making a Murderer made celebrities of Avery's two previous attorneys, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, who is in Belfast today as guest speaker at the European Young Bar association spring conference. Jerry Buting told Seamus that he has a particular connection to Northern Ireland