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Homicide case likely to complicate civil suit

Steven Avery already had a tough challenge in trying to prove his civil rights were violated when he was wrongly prosecuted for and convicted of a Manitowoc County rape in 1985.

And that case just got a whole lot harder, now that prosecutors say they will charge Avery with homicide, two legal experts said Friday. Also quotes Gordon Baldwin, emeritus law professor at UW-Madison.