Alison Dirr

USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin

The odds of Steven Avery being released from prison went up with the release of the Netflix docu-series "Making a Murderer," his defense attorneys say.

If the results of tests his new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, requested come back in Avery's favor, "he has a very good chance of getting a new trial," one of Avery's former attorneys, Jerry Buting said, according to The Age.

Zellner filed a motion requesting additional tests at the end of August and two months later, those following the case are waiting for it to be addressed.

Avery's other trial attorney, Dean Strang, acknowledged that any true-crime show has costs for the victims' families.

"I hope they will take away a recognition that this is not a story that glories in one person's death or trauma, but rather a story that is focused on what do we do as a society and how well institutions of justice are serving us in trying to prevent future tragedies and administer justice to everybody involved," he said, according to The Age.

Roughly 100 scientists reached out to Avery's attorneys after the docu-series was released to alert them to additional scientific testing, Buting told ABC News Online.

In other developments, Zellner's latest exoneration, of Bernard Mims, has given new optimism to some Avery supporters.

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