<P> As of January 9, 2016, Avery is being represented by Kathleen Zellner, a noted Chicago - area attorney, and Tricia Bushnell, legal director of the Midwest Innocence Project . </P> <P> Local reporter Angenette Levy was interviewed after the series and said: "I did notice there were some parts of the state's theory, and some other things that weren't discussed in the documentary," but she also noted that it was a six - week trial with much evidence reviewed in court . She said she was surprised that the trial, which she found compelling on many levels, had not received more national attention when it was being conducted . She found Dassey's conviction "tragic," as was Avery's wrongful conviction in 1985 but did not comment on the conviction in the Halbach case . TV reporter Diana Alvear wrote on her blog that she believed Halbach's life and character deserved more coverage in the series . Other local reporters said that the case still weighed on them nearly a decade after the trial . </P> <P> In an interview with the Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter, Sheriff Robert Hermann criticized the series, calling it "skewed" and not objective, but he admitted that he had not watched it . </P> <P> According to FOX local news, Ken Kratz, the former Calumet County district attorney who prosecuted Avery, said that he had not been able to give his side of the story . In another interview, he said that in 2013 Demos and Ricciardi denied him an opportunity for an interview . The documentary makers said this statement was false, as it was Kratz who refused an interview . </P>

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