Many who watched Netflix series Making a Murderer disagreed over whether Steven Avery, the Wisconsin man currently imprisoned for the murder of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach, truly deserved the conviction and sentencing he received. Some said he did it; others said he didn't. Others still argued that, either way, he hadn't received a fair trial.

But there seemed to be more consensus over the criminal justice system's treatment of Steven Avery's 16-year-old nephew, Brendan Dassey. Dassey, a teen with an IQ that a judge described as "being in the low average to borderline range," was also convicted in Halbach's murder. The teen received a life sentence despite the fact that his confession to the murder, which was later retracted, gave many viewers the impression that it had been coerced by detectives.

Today, CNN reports that a federal judge has decided to overturn Dassey's 2007 conviction based on similar concerns over the way detectives extracted the teen's confession.

Federal judge William E. Duffin overturned Dassey's conviction based on the way the confession was attained, calling it "so clearly involuntary in a constitutional sense that the court of appeals' decision to the contrary was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law."

The judge said he didn't believe investigators tried to trick Dassey into confessing but instead misunderstood the constitutional ramifications of telling him that they already knew everything that happened and he would be OK if he told the truth.

"Dassey's confession was, as a practical matter, the entirety of the case against him," the judge wrote.

Dassey is now 26 years old. Many viewers of the Netflix series have been celebrating Judge Duffin's ruling on Twitter, but Dassey's biggest challenge may be yet to come: rehabilitating into a society he has never known as an adult.

Read the judge's full opinion here.