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Innocence Project Pulls Photo of Avery from Web Site (Freed by DNA, Now On Trial for Murder)
JSOnline via AP ^ | March 3, 2006 | Ryan Foley

Posted on 03/03/2006 2:21:37 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

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Well, at least The Innocence Project is finally doing the right thing. They've been silent on this topic since November '05.

Prayers for the Halbach family. It's bad enough to have lost her, but to have to hear the gruesome details must be horrific.

Too bad our Governor has vetoed CC twice in the past four years. Teresa didn't have a fighting chance against these monsters.

1 posted on 03/03/2006 2:21:39 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Thanks for the follow up post, DIW. You always post such good and informative articles.

I am just sickened while reading this. Are we 100% sure he did not commit the rape? I really, really have my doubts. And I hope the 16 year old also gets the book thrown at him. Gosh, I wish you guys had the death penalty.

I know that scum bag got some money he is using for his defense. If that doesn't tell everyone all they need to know about how bad our justice system is screwed up, I don't know what would convince them.

May she rest in peace and may her family find peace.

2 posted on 03/03/2006 2:26:30 PM PST by yellowdoghunter (I sometimes only vote for Republicans because they are not Democrats....by Dr. Thomas Sowell)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ah liberals. They can always be counted on to do unbelievable harm to the world, yet their INTENTIONS were good, so they take no personal responsibility for the horrors they commit.

"The Innocence Project" obviously used bogus evidence to spring yet another psychopath/murderer.


3 posted on 03/03/2006 2:26:33 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The Innocence Project is still bragging all over the Internet about its "success" with Avery.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=137

http://www.truthinjustice.org/avery2.htm


4 posted on 03/03/2006 2:30:04 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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I'm missing something here. He was convicted of rape and murder, then freed on DNA evidence. Now, he's being tried again for those crimes? I was under the impression that you couldn't prosecute someone for the same crime twice. I mean if they get him back in prison, I'll be a happy camper, but I didn't know they were allowed to do that.

Too bad our Governor has vetoed CC twice in the past four years. Teresa didn't have a fighting chance against these monsters.

Every state of the union should have CC. It would dispense with these courtroom dramas that make a fool of our justice system. It would dispense with the badguys too.
5 posted on 03/03/2006 2:32:58 PM PST by JamesP81
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Are we 100% sure he did not commit the rape? I really, really have my doubts.

I'm sure as hell not convinced. This isn't the first case where the so-called Innnocence Project freed somebody who went out and raped someone else.

6 posted on 03/03/2006 2:35:44 PM PST by Mordacious
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Now, he's being tried again for those crimes?

New victim. New case.

7 posted on 03/03/2006 2:36:52 PM PST by Mordacious
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I'm missing something here. He was convicted of rape and murder, then freed on DNA evidence. Now, he's being tried again for those crimes?

Separate crimes.

Avery was convicted of a 1985 rape, then exonerated by DNA evidence.

Upon his release, he then committed another rape (and murder) in 2005. And he has confessed to the second crime.

8 posted on 03/03/2006 2:38:22 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: JamesP81

no, the point was that the "Innocence Project" got him out of prison and while out, he committed this horrible crime.


9 posted on 03/03/2006 2:40:05 PM PST by filepile
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Avery was freed for 3 years and pursuing his wrongful imprisonment lawsuit, when he raped, stabbed, shot and burned his victim. Either his first or most recent depending on your take on the earlier "wrongful conviction. The nephew stumbled onto the earlier stages of the crime and then partook every part of the way. Police had Avery nailed with DNA but didn't have the circumstances nailed down until the nephew cracked this week under follow up questioning.

The Milwaukee Journal ran the following photo of Avery, his parents and nephew at their cabin several days after Halbach was killed in their home on their shared property. Chilling.

10 posted on 03/03/2006 2:42:39 PM PST by sbMKE
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"The Innocence Project" obviously used bogus evidence to spring yet another psychopath/murderer.

Or maybe being locked up all those years on bogus charges made him crazy. But we all know that's just a silly theory because prisons don't send people out worse than they went in....right? Right?

11 posted on 03/03/2006 2:42:52 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Steven Avery

12 posted on 03/03/2006 2:43:02 PM PST by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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Or maybe being locked up all those years on bogus charges made him crazy. But we all know that's just a silly theory because prisons don't send people out worse than they went in....right? Right?

Do you seriously believe that Avery was REALLY innocent of the original offences that "The Innocence Project" got this monster sprung on?

13 posted on 03/03/2006 2:52:02 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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That's what the court decided using DNA evidence. It's hard to argue against science.


14 posted on 03/03/2006 2:54:09 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Her family should sue them, big time. Who cares if it has standing or not, they live by the sword of litigation, let them die by the same.


15 posted on 03/03/2006 2:56:59 PM PST by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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"Now, he's being tried again for those crimes? I was under the impression that you couldn't prosecute someone for the same crime twice. I mean if they get him back in prison, I'll be a happy camper, but I didn't know they were allowed to do that."

No, he committed other crimes as soon as he was sprung. He had a long list of felony convictions, but the bogus rape is what sent him to prison, finally, based on his priors.

He raped (but didn't kill) another woman soon after The Innocence Project freed him. She is not pressing charges because she doesn't want to live through it again, and he's going away forever now, as it is. Can't say that I blame her.

He's now being tried for the murder of Teresa Helbach, a photographer that happened to cross his path. His nephew is also involved.


16 posted on 03/03/2006 2:58:01 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Sir Gawain

There is lots of bogus DNA "science" and lots of crooked lawyers. Ask OJ for starters.


17 posted on 03/03/2006 2:59:05 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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To: Sir Gawain
DNA evidence is only as good as the expert who analyzes it and the expert witness who testifies.

You remember all the fraud out of the FBI crime lab a few years back?

Consider the possibility that that can cut both ways. It may be hard to argue against "science", but "science" can be manipulated to fool the credulous.

I think it's more than likely that an error or a little fudging took place in the "innocence project" DNA analysis.

18 posted on 03/03/2006 2:59:45 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: sbMKE

Wow. What a chilling photo, now that we know what happened to Teresa. Psychopaths can look so darn normal, can't they?


19 posted on 03/03/2006 3:00:01 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: sbMKE

White trash.


20 posted on 03/03/2006 3:00:15 PM PST by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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