'Making a Murderer' juror says Steven Avery verdict was a compromise, they feared for their life

One of the jurors of the trial featured in Netflix's Making a Murderer now thinks Steven Avery was not proven guilty.

In an interview with Today, filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos said that since Making a Murderer premiered, they have been contacted by one of the jurors from the trial, who believes they made the wrong decision. The juror also revealed that the verdicts in the Avery trial were a compromise.

"That was the actual word the juror used and went on to describe the jurors ultimately trading votes in the jury room and explicitly discussing, 'If you vote guilty on this count, I will vote not guilty on this count,'" Ricciardi said. "So that was a significant revelation."

The filmmakers have not been able to independently verify this claim, as they have not spoken to any other members of the jury.

The same juror also said that they feared for their life, explaining that if the jury held out for a mistrial, it would be easy to identify which juror had done this. If this new information could lead to a new trial, the anonymous juror said they would be willing to serve as a source.

It's unclear if this would be enough, though, unless evidence could be provided that the jurors were actually threatened by an outside source. According to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, "Absent evidence of an external threat, however, injury into a juror's subjective motives for decisions made in the jury room are beyond the pale of legitimate inquiry."

Making a Murderer is now streaming on Netflix.