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.
“Serial” Podcast Hae Min Lee, murder at eighteen by strangulation was found dead February 9, 1999 in Leakin Park, Baltimore. Adnan Syed has been in prison for over fifteen years after being convicted of murdering his ex- girlfriend Hae. He has been sentenced for more than thirty years in prison. Jay Wilds testified against Adnan about Hae’s murder even though Jay helped Adnan bury Hae’s body. It could prove that he could be innocent or guilty by the call timeline, Hae’s autopsy, Jay’s testimony.
The first evident display of injustice in the case of Steven Avery and Brenden Dassey is the jury’s bias. In the early days of this case, media coverage and the infamous press conference given by Ken Kratz, which described Avery as an “evil
Paul Gregory House was charged in the death of Carolyn Muncey in 1985. Carolyn body was found hundred feet from her home badly beaten with abrasions and partially strangled. House was recently on probation for sexual assault from Utah. His probation was switchover to Tennessee and started living with his girlfriend a few miles from where Carolyn stayed. On the day of discovery of the body, the witness told sheriff that they seen House coming from the area where the body was found.
In November of 2014, a man, Gary Fellenbaum, and his girlfriend, Jillian Tait Thursday, are charged with murdering the girlfriend’s 3-year old son. Authorities were called under the false pretense of an unresponsive child, when EMTs arrived, 3-year old Scott McMillan was reported to have suffered from bruises, lacerations, and puncture wounds all over his body. Fellenbaum, Tait, and Fellenbaum’s wife, Amber, confessed to police, “…that the little boy had been beaten with blunt and sharp objects, whipped, taped to a chair with electrical tape and beaten, hung up by his feet and beaten, leading to his death.” (Unknown). Tait later explained to the police that the beatings began because Scott refused to eat his breakfast.
They stuck to themselves and lived close to each other on their family property, where they also ran a car yard (Ricciardi, 2015). They had a few mix-ups with the law over the years. Steven Avery has been charged with multiple burglaries and cruelty to an animal, in which he dumped gasoline on a cat and proceeded to place it in a fire (Ricciardi, 2015). Avery was also accused by a local woman, who happened to be a relative and married to a county deputy, of running her off the road and pulling a gun on her (Ricciardi, 2015). He admitted to doing so but he claimed the gun wasn't loaded.
On the night of December 25, 1996, in Boulder, Colorado, Patsy Ramsey and John Ramsey tucked their children, JonBenet Ramsey and Burke Ramsey into bed after a long day of Christmas festivities. The family had plans to go on vacation the next day, and everyone was greatly anticipating the holiday trip. However, things did not go as planned. Patsy woke up early during the morning of the 26th, in order to prepare for the long day of traveling ahead. As Patsy walked down the kitchen staircase, she saw a two and half page letter sitting on the last step.
In our opinion, it’s too difficult to incorporate the victim’s reaction into sentencing because measuring this reaction is such a subjective process. It is very difficult to objectively and reliably measure the detrimental impact sexual assault has on a victim’s life. If a court were to try and measure this impact, the primary approach they would likely use is self-report. In this case, the victim would have to publicly report how greatly the assault impacted his or her life. This is difficult not only because it’s a very subjective measure but also because many victims might not be willing to publicly speak about their assault.
Making a Murderer is a 10 episode documentary series on Netflix about a man from Wisconsin named Steven Avery, who spent 18 years in prison before DNA evidence helped him clear his name but then was accused of murder as soon as he got released. In 1985, his original prison sentence was for raping a woman before the DNA evidence released him and pointed to another man, who may have been a suspect when the rape originally was being investigated but police did nit entirely pursue. In 2005, a 25-year-old woman named Teresa Halbach had disappeared and was last seen visiting Avery. After human remains, Halbach’s car, and other evidence were found on the Avery family salvage lot, Avery was charged with murder. I could not pick a favorite moment
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you are here because one person in this courtroom decided to take law into her own hands. The defendant, Mrs. Dominique Stephens, murdered the man that she vowed to love. This sole act by the defendant is violation of all morals and her husband’s right to live. Afterwards, she even felt guilty about this violation of justice and called the cops on herself, and she later signed a written statement stating that she is guilty of the murder of Mr. Donovan Stephens. Then the defendant later recanted this statement and said that she only killed Mr. Stephens in self defense.
With all of the evidence pointing towards Dean Munsch being the killer, the ladies of Kappa Kappa Tau on Tuesday’s Scream Queens found themselves with but one option: Kill. Dean. Munsch. After their Thanksgiving ended in the most horrific way imaginable — Gigi’s (Nasim Pedrad) head was served on a platter — the Chanels decided to celebrate their favorite holiday, Black Friday. Other than Chanel-O-Ween, this is Chanel #1 's favorite holiday, because Chanel enjoys buying deliberately cheap gifts for her friends as a way to ingratiate them even more while forcing them to deal with the confusion of receiving something so vile.
Imagine you are a cop and you pull up to some rather tall and large teenagers and ask them not to walk in the middle of the street. When noticing that one of the teenager fits the description of a robbery suspect from a robbery that took place earlier that day. That is when you start asking the teenager questions based on the description given from the store owner that had been robbed. When you see the rage in his face you decide to call in for back up. He opens the door and fights you for your gun.
OJ Simpson was an idolized NFL player, actor, and broadcaster. He was loved by all and defied all racial barriers during the 1900s. People didn’t see him for the color of his skin, they saw him as an American hero. This was until June 12, 1994 when Nicole Simpson, OJ Simpson’s ex wife, as well as Ronald Goldman were found murdered. This was the beginning of the end of most Americans respect and adoration for OJ Simpson.
“The American Capital Punishment Argument” The American justice system is widely known as the greatest and most trustworthy justice system that ever existed. It is common knowledge in America that everyone has a right to a trial by jury and is innocent until proven guilty. Even though Americans pride themselves on the American justice system, there are still many controversies surrounding it. One of the biggest dilemmas in the system today is whether or not the death penalty should be a legal means of punishment for those who commit horrendous crimes.
Can you begin to imagine spending over 30 years of your life in prison over something you knew you never did? Imagine the point in which you were voiceless and the odds seemed to be against you. That is what has happened to so many people in North Carolina particularly due to wrongful convictions. Since 2007 the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission has been able to get over 7 people exonerated from the death penalty and back into society after spending more than 15 years incarcerated for a crime they did not commit due to tampering of evidence, coerced confessions, plea bargains, and much more. The legal definition for wrongful conviction is persons who are in fact innocent but who have been wrongly convicted by a jury or other court
