With those eyewitness testimonies, the prosecution won the case and Darryl Hunt was sentenced to life in prison. A few years into his sentence, Hunt and his attorney appealed the conviction in the North Carolina Supreme Court. Hunt won because the prosecution relied on the testimony of his girlfriend at the time, after she retracted the statement. He was released on bond in 1989 with a pending trial. The prosecution offered him a plea deal.
Herbert Landry was then sentenced to five years to life in prison based on evidence that a dog retrieved. Eventually, Landry was exonerated after several appeals. Thanks to Landry’s attorney, a petition was created that emphasized how poor the evidence was. Unfortunately, the petition was dismissed.
He was convicted for 13 of the killings, which lead to the death penalty.
After spending 18 of those 35 years in confinement, he was ruled not guilty due DNA evidence that tested negative for any trace
He was then arrested and served 10 years in prison but was released for good behavior. After
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.
Theodoric Meyer and Christie Thompson, writers for ProPublica explain that in 1991, an unemployed man named David Ranta was convicted of killing someone and was sentenced to prison. After twenty two years in a maximum security prison, Ranta was released after almost all of the evidence used to convict him fell away. This source also has many different stories of wrong convictions. Although this article provides different stories, they are very brief. It would have been better if they were throughly explained.
Arne Johnson was ultimately found guilty of first-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison. However, he served only five years
This man was fairly tried in court and sentenced to prison as he deserved to be. I believe this case is rather famous because the crime was committed in the same town that the girl lived in, and also because this case was covered by so much media it quickly became national news making it nearly impossible to find impartial jurors to judge the
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
The montage consists of statements from detectives to the victim planting Avery’s name into their head; “That sounds like Steven Avery.” Furthermore, the sketch of the “assailant” was done from Avery’s picture not the victim’s description, ultimately leaving Avery to be singled out from a line-up. Overall, by highlighting inconsistencies among testimonies and presenting evidence that the prosecution’s case had malicious intent, both "Serial" and "Making a Murderer" influence the audience to question the fairness of the cases. In both “Serial” and “Making a Murderer,” Adnan Syed and Steven Avery maintain their innocence throughout the case and are portrayed as the victim to the audience, as the filmmakers employ similar techniques to convince the audience of the accused's innocence.
Steven Avery, born on July 9, 1962 was born and raised in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Avery’s parents, Dolores Avery and Allan Avery owned an auto salvage yard that Steven Avery worked at in his earlier years. Steven Avery and his family were not really liked in the town and mostly stayed to themselves. The Avery’s believed that the town’s people thought very little of them and always isolated them around town. At the age of 22, Steven Avery was wrongfully convicted of rape.
He was charged on a federal and state level regarding the illegal dog fighting. They opened and operated an organization called Bad Newz Kennels. The facilities housed and trained over 50 American Pit bull dogs. They staged dog fights, killed dogs, and ran a high stakes gambling ring with purses up to $26,000. They were shut down by the Animal Legal Defense Fund that found many things within the Bad Newz Kennels.
Renowned comedic actor Jim Carrey is set to replace Christoph Waltz in the murder mystery ‘True Crimes’. This confirmed news comes from an interview the film’s scribe did with Screen International. Screenwriter Jeremy Brock not only confirmed the inclusion of Jim Carrey in the lead role, but he also stated that the film is set to start principle photography on November 7, 2015. The story behind ‘True Crimes’ is undeniably a fascinating one.
He was found guilty on multiple counts of forgery. However, he countered that he simply made fake checks and that they were not forged. Regardless, they still found him guilty and sentenced him to twelve years in a federal prison, Federal Correction Institution, in Petersburg, Virginia. However, he only served four years before he was paroled and was offered to help assist the Federal Bureau of Investigations in identifying and capturing other criminals. Specifically the one’s who were forging checks since that is what Abagnale knew best.
