Departure Lounge with Steven Drizin
Attorneys Laura Nirider, Steven Drizin and David Rudolf from the Netflix series’ Making a Murderer and The Staircase will bring their popular speaking tour to Australia & New Zealand in 2019.
SYDNEY Thursday 21 March – Enmore Theatre
MELBOURNE Saturday 23 March – Goldfields Theatre
PERTH Tuesday 26 March – Astor Theatre
ADELAIDE Wednesday 27 March – AEC Theatre
AUCKLAND Thursday 28 March – Bruce Mason Centre
BRISBANE Friday 29 March – Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
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Making a Murderer follows the trials of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey. Stephen Avery served 18 years in prison for the wrongful conviction of sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen.
He was again charged in 2005 and convicted in 2007 for the murder of Teresa Halbach. Avery’s nephew, Brendan Dassey, was accused and convicted as an accessory in the murder.
The discrepancies in the police work and judicial procedures in both cases have caused waves of concern and conversation about the justice system in America.
Steven Drizin is a Clinical Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law where he has been on the faculty since 1991.
He served as the Legal Director of the Clinic's renowned Center on Wrongful Convictions from March 2005 to September 2013.
At the Center, Professor Drizin's research interests involve the study of false confessions and his policy work focuses on supporting efforts around the country to require law enforcement agencies to electronically record custodial interrogations.
Drizin co-founded the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth (CWCY) in 2008, the first innocence organization to focus on representing defendants who were only teenagers when they were wrongfully convicted.
Steven checked into the Departure Lounge to chat about the success of the Netflix series, and the man he is defending Brendan Dassey.