Brendan Dassey, one of the subjects in Netflix's Making a Murderer docuseries, may have potential for exoneration.

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Dassey was arrested at the age of 16 for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005, alongside his uncle, Steven Avery. But now, thanks to the Northwestern University's Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, Dassey will receive a writ of Habeas corpus, which will lead to Wisconsin examining Dassey's case to determine if he was illegally imprisoned.

Steven Drizin, clinical professor at Northwestern University School of Law, is helping represent Dassey told NBC Chicago he is hopeful now that the lawsuit is now in a federal judge's hands.

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"We're hopeful is what I would say. The deeper you go into this system, whether it's in the state court system or the federal court system, the harder it is to win," Drizin said. "We've won cases in federal court before and we're hoping that this is another one that we'll win."

The crux of their suit discusses the possible corruption of Dassey's first attorney, Len Kachinsky.

"A lot of our appeal has to do with the actions that Brendan's original attorney Len Kachinsky took, which demonstrated his disloyalty to Brendan and his willingness to work with the prosecution to try to get Brendan to plead guilty and testify against Steven Avery," Drizin explained.

While Drizin doesn't think the media presence of Making a Murderer will have a huge impact on the federal judge, he does think it could provide a bit more sympathy towards Dassey's situation.

"I don't think that the Netflix movie is going to influence a federal judge, but at the same time, judges are human beings and the Netflix film has created a context for Brendan's case that didn't exist at the time of his trial or his appeals," he said.

Making a Murderer is available to stream on Netflix.

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