About This Archive

What this is

The Steven Avery & Brendan Dassey Case Archive is a searchable edition of the 2007 criminal trial transcripts in State of Wisconsin v. Steven A. Avery, No. 05 CF 381, and State of Wisconsin v. Brendan R. Dassey, No. 06 CF 88, in Manitowoc County Circuit Court. Both trials concerned the death of Teresa Halbach.

Avery's record covers February 12–March 18, 2007; Dassey's covers April 16–25, 2007. Together, they contain 36 court dates, 208 transcript pages, 417 proceedings, and 56,130 transcript lines. Transcript coverage runs from opening statements through the verdicts, not jury selection, sentencing, or later litigation.

Primary source

The primary source is the court-reporter transcript of each trial. Reporter page and line numbers accompany the text so passages can be checked against the official court record. The source PDFs are not republished here.

Supporting material

The case timeline follows the wrongful-conviction case, Halbach investigation, separate trials, appeals and commutation requests. Its entries link to court records and other cited sources.

Summaries, profiles, and other guides are separate from the transcript. Some are produced with AI assistance and may contain errors or miss important context; use the transcript and cited records for important questions.

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Independence

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