Kerry barrister selected to work with US Innocence Project

A young Irish legal eagle has been selected to work on a US miscarriage of justice project which helped highlight the Steven Avery case featured in the smash Netflix series, Making a Murderer.

Barrister Marie-Louise Donovan, 24, from Moyvane in Co Kerry, jetted out to the US at the weekend to begin a three-month voluntary placement with the Innocence Project which has freed over 340 wrongfully convicted prisoners, some of whom were facing the death penalty.

She is one of just three Irish lawyers chosen by the Bar Council of Ireland to work this year on the project founded by lawyers Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, who were both on OJ Simpson’s defence team in his famous murder trial in 1995.