Kathleen Zellner: the Making A Murderer lawyer you want on your side

Kathleen Zellner specialises in getting the innocent out of jail. She watched the first season of the TV documentary hit along with the rest of us. Now she is at the heart of season two

Kathleen Zellner did not wait to be asked. “The blood spatter was really suspicious,” volunteered the Chicago lawyer who specialises in getting the innocent out of prison – predicting a question about when, as she watched the Netflix global phenomenon Making a Murderer, she decided to take up the case of Steven Avery.

“Watching his facial expressions during the trial, I thought there was a strong possibility he was innocent. I was once appointed on a serial killer’s case. I spent hundreds of hours with somebody who really was a killer and a sociopath and now I’ve spent thousands of hours with people who are innocent. I know the difference.”

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