Steven Avery Persuasive Essay

Manitowoc County, WI Steven Avery was convicted of rape. Growing up Avery was not the smartest kid; he had the IQ of 70 and was barely functional in school. In 1982 Avery married his 19 year old wife, Lori Mathieson. Not only did he adopt her son, but he gave birth to four of his own with the last two being a set of twins. The Avery family was not a popular family; in fact they were quite disliked. They were known as that trashy family who owned the car junk yard. The Avery family was not the richest family either. Even though popularity and wealth was not on their side no one deserves to go through what Steven Avery did. Avery admitted to the crime of burglary in 1981 and also to the crime of animal cruelty in 1982 for throwing the house

Evidence was not properly searched and witness questions were set up so Steven Avery would be the man that the witness would choose. Steven Avery was arrested by Sheriffs order. He was denied a phone call which is legally not allowed and had his name kept off the list of inmates so that public defender’s office would not be aware of his arrest. It was obvious that they wanted Steven in there for something they know he didn’t do. After a long 18 year Steven Avery was finally released due to DNA test showing that the pubic hairs found on Beernsten was not his. In all the 18 years Steven never confessed to the crime even when offered an early release. Why? Because he knew that he was innocent. Avery lost his life in there. While in prison Steven’s wife could not handle all the children on her own. In one of the letters she wrote “I just can't handle these kids anymore. Between the crying, yelling, talking back and fighting I just can't anymore.” This eventually led to the divorce in 1988. His main concern was his children, not only because he thought he wouldn’t be able to see him but because his ex-wife would threaten their lives in the letters. After being released Steven pressed charges on the police dept. for 5,000 a year for every year he was in prison. Even though that’s a lot of money it will never make up for his time lost. The police dept. was not

The crime taken place against Beernsten was committed around the time of 3:50pm and it went on for about 15 minutes. A suspect , Gregory Allen, was on probation watch mainly every day except for that day of the rape and was off the radar throughout that day. Avery however was accounted for. Around 1:00 or 2:00pm the cement truck arrived and Steven Avery was helping his family at the salvage yard pour cement. 3-3:30 everyone went inside to watch divorce court except for him. At 3:30 he went with his sister to a local gravel yard, they got stuck out there and had to dig it out and got back around 4:00pm. From there Steven Avery picked up his wife and children and took a 35 minute drive to Green Bay. They washed the car, got something to eat and went to the shop-co store. Evidence showed a receipt giving the time of 5:13. When he came back from Green Bay with his wife he called brother earl to help do some dry wall in his house, they did that all the way till they went to bed and at 11:45pm the police arrived. Evidence also shows that there was a hair recovered from Beernstens pubic area. The DNA was matched to Gregory Allen. Gregory Allen had already been put away for sexually assaulting another women, so in that case it was obvious who the real rapist had