Brendan Dassey appears in court in 2007.
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Making a Murderer subject Brendan Dassey was ordered released from prison Monday pending his appeal.
Dassey was 16 when he was accused of helping his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach, who vanished in November 2005, and dispose of her body in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
Dassey’s attorneys argued that he should be released based on a judge’s finding that the court had “significant doubts” about the reliability of the confession he gave to investigators in 2006 implicating himself in the killing.
Earlier this year, a judge ruled that Dassey's conviction should be thrown out, but state has appealed that ruling.
Dassey's release, first reported by NBC station TMJ4, came with several conditions, including that he only travel in the court's Eastern District of Wisconsin. He also cannot obtain a passport, possess weapons, and cannot have any contact with Avery or Halbach's family.
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