'Making of a Murderer' Lawyer to Release Book

Jerome Buting, attorney for Steven Avery who was featured in the series "Making a Murderer" has inked a book deal with HarperCollins.

HarperCollins reveals that Jerome Buting will release a book next year through the Harper imprint. In the book, Buting will draw on his 35-year career and assail the "dysfunction" of the criminal justice system.

About the show: Exonerated after spending nearly two decades in prison for a crime he did not commit, Steven Avery filed suit against Manitowoc County, Wis., and several individuals involved with his arrest. Shortly after, however, Avery found himself behind bars again, this time accused of the murder of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach. She was last seen on Avery's property, where she was to photograph a vehicle. Avery and nephew Brendan Dassey were tried and (spoiler alert) convicted of the crime. But that's not the end of the story. When Columbia graduate students Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos read about Avery, they felt his story would make an interesting documentary. Neither PBS nor HBO were interested, but Netflix took on their concept to produce the 10-episode docuseries, which generated plenty of publicity and prompted petitions to have Avery's case reviewed, though officials in Wisconsin insist all the evidence is not presented in the program.

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