Defenders and the ACLU Present:

Making a Murderer with Dean Strang

Dean Strang is a Wisconsin defense lawyer. His defense of Steven Avery was chronicled in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer. In 2003, Avery was exonerated after serving 18 years in prison. He filed a civil rights lawsuit against Manitowoc County, and two years later he was charged and convicted of murder. Strang and his co-counsel, Jerome Buting, led Avery's defense.

Strang is a partner at StrangBradley, a trial law firm he co-founded. He was the first executive director for the Federal Defender Services of Wisconsin, Inc., and has been a shareholder at some of Wisconsin's leading criminal defense firms, including Shellow, Shellow, & Glynn. He has taught at Marquette University, the University of Wisconsin, and the National Criminal Defense College, and is the author of Worse than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia and his A.B. from Dartmouth College.