A Wisconsin man accused of killing a freelance photographer wants a state appellate court to hold his latest appeal open pending a decision on additional scientific testing in the case.
Steven Avery is serving a life sentence after a jury convicted him of killing 25-year-old Teresa Halbach in his family's Manitowoc County salvage yard in 2005. Avery has been fighting his conviction for years.
His attorney, Kathleen Zellner, filed a motion Friday with the 2nd District Court of Appeals asking the court to hold his latest appeal in abeyance.
Zellner wrote that she planned to file a motion Friday seeking additional testing of evidence that will prove Avery's innocence and the appeal should be suspended pending the results.
She hadn't filed the testing request as of late morning.
