"Making a Murderer" fans rejoice! About the only two likable people from the Netflix documentary are coming to Grand Rapids!

Steven Avery's defense lawyers Dean Strang and Jerry Buting will stop at DeVos Performance Hall March 20, as part of a speaking tour.

Tickets for the show, called  "A Conversation on Making a Murder", range from $29.50 to $59.50 and go on sale Feb. 1 at noon at Ticketmaster.

The pair is also making a stop at Royal Oak Music Theatre March 19.

If you haven't yet jumped on the "Making a Murder" train, here's the trailer.

The Netflix documentary was shot over ten years and follows Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man convicted of rape and assault and sent to prison. After 18 years, Avery was exonerated by DNA evidence. Shortly after being released, Avery finds himself accused of murder.

And like I said, Avery's lawyers, Strang and Buting, are few of the positive, admirable characters from the documentary.

Here's some background on the two of them:

Dean A. Strang is a lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin. He is best known for his work as one of Steven Avery's trial lawyers, as well as for his first book, "WORSE THAN THE DEVIL: ANARCHISTS, CLARENCE DARROW, AND JUSTICE IN A TIME OF TERROR." His work includes five years as Wisconsin’s first Federal Defender; shareholder in three of the state’s leading criminal defense firms (Hurley, Burish & Stanton, S.C., Fitzgerald & Strang, S.C., and Shellow, Shellow & Glynn, S.C.); and co-founder of StrangBradley, LLC. He is an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School, the University of Wisconsin Law School, and University of Wisconsin's Division of Continuing Studies. Mr. Strang is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on several charity boards, including the Wisconsin Innocence Project. His second book will be published in early 2018.
 
Jerome F. Buting is a shareholder in the Brookfield, Wisconsin law firm of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. He received his undergraduate degree in Forensic Studies from Indiana University and his law degree from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. He is a past director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a past president of the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and chair of the Wisconsin State Bar Criminal Law Section from 2005 to 2007. His present private practice is entirely criminal defense, both trials and appeals. He has defended the citizen accused in many serious high profile trial cases, including the Steven Avery case as shown in the Netflix documentary, “Making a Murderer” and he obtained the reversal of convictions in State of Wisconsin v. Ted Oswald and State of Wisconsin v. Ralph Armstrong (reversing a 25 year old murder conviction). He lectures nationwide and is frequently sought after for his knowledge in the use of expert witnesses and DNA evidence. 

 

 

 

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