MANITOWOC COUNTY, Wis. — A Wisconsin appeals court has denied Steven Avery's motion to stay appeal and remand the cause for new scientific testing.
The motion focused on new DNA testing of suspected human skeletal remains recovered from a Manitowoc County gravel pit.
It's linked to Teresa Halbach, who Steven Avery was found guilty of killing in a 2007 trial.
The case was made famous by the Netflix series 'Making a Murderer.'
Avery's attorney, Kathleen Zeller, argued that the identification of the Manitowoc County Gravel Pit bone fragments as Halbach's would prove the murder did not happen in a location tied exclusively to Avery.
Zellner said in the motion that if DNA testing identifies Halbach's bones in the gravel put, that it can be inferred that Avery is not the killer and the bones recovered from the pit were planted.
Zellner has a full brief to the appeals court due on or before February 1.
