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Steven Avery in 1985, 41 year old Steven Avery was accused of sexual assault and served 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t do and later was convicted of murder but whether he committed the murder is a mystery. Steven Avery is currently serving life in prison for killing photographer Teresa Halbach. He was convicted in 2007 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. There have been many clues leading to Steven Avery committing this murder although many people believe he is still innocent and someone set him up. In this paper I will show how the police department made a mistake and where he is today.
Steven Avery is a well known name in the criminal courts and known for many crimes. Burning a family cat, running his cousin off the road and pointing a gun at her, beating and raping Penny Bernsteen. Although his name is quite common, and he has some faults did he really murder Teresa Halbach? I believe that Steven Avery is innocent, he did not do it. A lot of the information and evidence seems to be misleading or deceiving.
Remember the how it was repeatedly stated that Avery was in jail for 18 years for a crime he didn't commit? It was 12 years. 6 were for assault. He chased his cousin down at gun point. Avery used Halbach multiple times to take pictures of cars to sell in Auto Trader.
Avery’s conviction was based solely on eyewitness testimony. Little to no investigation was conducted in this case, and Avery was denied some of his most basic rights upon his initial imprisonment. Although Steven Avery was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, he was not all that innocent prior to his conviction. According to www.stevenaverytrial.com, Avery was convicted of numerous crimes prior to being sentenced to his 32 years for rape.
The suspect I will be talking about is Lydell Grant. Lydell Grant, a Houston man, was wrongfully convicted in 2012 for the murder of Aaron Scheerhoorn, who was fatally stabbed outside a Houston bar in 2010. Despite Grant's consistent claims of innocence and the lack of physical evidence linking him to the crime, six eyewitnesses identified him as the murderer, leading to his conviction and a life sentence. On December 10, 2010 Police were called to a club called Club Blur. Once police arrived at the club they found Aaron Scheerhoorn dead after being stabbed seven different times.
It doesn’t matter what I think. It matters what a jury thinks and I agree with the jury. I believe Steven Avery brutally murdered Teresa Halbach. I have watched the show. I kept waiting for them to tell the truth.
Steven Avery returned to his family in 2003 after being exonerated for the 1985 rape and assault of a woman, Penny Beerntsen, in his home county Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. He had already served 18 years in prison for the crime. New DNA evidence proved him innocent. He's welcomed back by his family and friends and also with the full attention of media and state politicians.
People all around America are on the edge of their seats in anticipation for the next top Netflix series, Making a Murderer. The excitement all started on December 18, 2015 when the first episode of a famous Wisconsin case was released. This case was the 2005 trial of Steven Avery, a known Wisconsin man who was wrongfully convicted at the age of 22. In 1985, Avery was arrested, tried, and convicted of first-degree sexual assault against Penny Bernstein and was later sentenced to 35 years in prison. During the time he spent locked up, he stood firm on the idea that he never committed the crime and was an innocent man.
If you were blamed for a crime you didn’t do, would you let that accusation go and let it tarnish your reputation? Would you let it fly by and have others judge from every angle? No, right? Normally people who get accused of crimes demand justice as they know they did not commit the crime and only justice can give them the freedom they deserve. But let’s look at Steve Harmon, the main character from the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers who was on trial for murder.
Avery had to settle for 400,000 dollars because he was running out of time and was about to be sent to jail again. He hired a defense team consisting of Dean Strang and Jerry Buting. They gathered evidence to support that Avery was being framed once again by local police for murdering Theresa Halbach. Steven Avery was considered the number one suspect in Halbach's murder, but he did have an alibi.
Imagine spending eighteen years of your life in prison for a crime you did not commit. The man who served that time will never get those eighteen years back. That man is Steven Avery. On July 29, 1985, at approximately 3:50 PM, Penny Beerntsen was attacked and raped by a stranger while running along a beach in Wisconsin (Innocence Project, 2016). After she picked her assailant out of a police lineup, he was convicted and sentenced to thirty-two years in prison, and for eighteen of those years, Beerntsen knew that her rapist was behind bars.
In 1995 there was a new invention called the DNA test, it was 99% accurate. This test could determine if it was him who actually committed the crime or if it wasn’t. This DNA made his case turn upside down, his new lawyer Mr. Hunter and Richard Rosen did the investigation over again. They wanted to make sure they didn’t miss anything. They knew there wasn’t enough evidence to actually blame him guilty for sure.
Allen was then serving a 60-year prison term for a sexual assault in Green Bay that occurred after the attack on Beernsten. On September 11, 2003, a request brought by the Manitowoc District Attorney’s Office and the Wisconsin Innocence Project to dismiss the charges was granted and Avery was released. In 2005, with support from Beernsten and Avery, the Wisconsin Department of Justice implemented a model eyewitness identification procedure. Unfortunately for Avery, that wasn’t going to be his only bad encounter with justice. On October 31, 2005, photographer Teresa Halbach was scheduled to meet with Steven Avery at his home on the grounds of Avery 's Auto Salvage to photograph a minivan for Auto Trader Magazine.
“ Those who have been exonerated each spent an average of 14 years in prison, and some even up to 35 or more years...but they also usually have to wait a few more years if and before they are exonerated (Innocence Project).” This Explains that to be able to become free you have to still be in for years . The perpetrators and or suspects who were caught, “148: True suspects and/or perpetrators identified. Those actual perpetrators went on to be convicted of 146 additional violent crimes, including 77 sexual assaults, 34 murders, and 35 other violent crimes while the innocent sat behind bars for their earlier offenses(Innocence Project).” DNA statistics, and no evidence that showed he
