Harvey Brownstone Interviews...

Harvey Brownstone Interviews Kathleen Zellner, Renowned Defense Attorney and Star of “Making a Murderer”

September 15, 2021 Harvey Brownstone Season 1 Episode 93
Harvey Brownstone Interviews...
Harvey Brownstone Interviews Kathleen Zellner, Renowned Defense Attorney and Star of “Making a Murderer”
Show Notes

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Kathleen Zellner, Renowned Defense Attorney and Star of “Making a Murderer”

About Harvey's guest:

Kathleen Zellner is an American attorney who has worked extensively in wrongful conviction advocacy. Notable clients Zellner has represented include Steven Avery (who was the subject of the 2015 and 2018 Netflix series Making a Murderer), Kevin Fox (who was falsely accused of murdering his daughter), Ryan W. Ferguson, and 19 exonerees who are listed in the National Registry of Exonerations.

She opened her firm, Kathleen T. Zellner & Associates in Downers Grove, Illinois, in 1991. Her firm handles wrongful conviction cases, civil rights violations, medical malpractice, and prisoner abuse cases.  Zellner had achieved 19 exonerations as of October 2018, and now 20 exonerations for clients.

Notable clients Zellner has represented include Steven Avery (who was the subject of the 2015 and 2018 Netflix series Making a Murderer), Kevin Fox (who was falsely accused of murdering his three-year-old daughter), and 19 exonerees who are listed in the National Registry of Exonerations. Newsweek reported that a lawyer said that facing her at trial was "worse than my divorce."

As of March 2016, she had won almost $90 million from wrongful conviction and medical malpractice lawsuits.  In 2000, The National Law Journal named Zellner a top ten trial lawyer in the United States for a suicide malpractice verdict of $13 million.  She also won a $15.5 million verdict for the violation of Kevin Fox's civil rights in 2007, an $11 million verdict for Ryan W. Ferguson in Missouri who had served 10 years in jail, and a $9 million civil rights verdict for Ray Spencer in Washington in 2014.  In 2012, she won the American Bar Association "Pursuit of Justice" Award.

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