Posted on 03/18/2007 9:15:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
fyi
Steven Avery, right, looks around a courtroom in the Calumet County Courthouse Sunday, March 18, 2007, in Chilton, Wis. Avery was found guilty Sunday of first-degree intentional homicide in the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach, 25, on Oct. 31, 2005 near the family's auto salvage lot in rural Manitowoc County. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps, Pool)
Prior to being convicted in that rape that he was later found not guilty of he ran a deputies wife off the road with a gun and backed off after he said he saw her kid in the backseat.
The fact he was in jail 18 years for that rape was a good thing.
I submit that the lab screwed up and he was in fact guilty in the first case...
Well to get to the nitty gritty. The pubic hairs recovered from the victim of that rape DNA matched another man who also confessed to having done the rape after the statute of limitations for the crime had passed but while he was serving another long sentence for some other crime.
The victim of that assault picked Avery from a lineup and her id of him was key to the conviction.
Like you I don't care why the put him away all those years ago I am just glad he was locked up then to. My only regret is he ever got out at all.
The postman always rings twice.
Hmmm...seems a little convenient....dont you think?
Perp confesses after the fact....dna matches sample tested...poof..instant freedom...
screw what the witness said...
I mean really....it's not like anyone ever faked anything in a lab....for money...
call me a cynic..
The guy just happens to turns out to be a killer and rapist?
Didn’t think of that, but yes, and Ronald Merrett.
Interestingly enough, Steve's picture seems to have gone missing from the Wisconsin Innocence Project's web site.
That's another one of those fact sets where a claim is made that DNA 'proved innocence', when, in fact, it didn't. What it proved is that the victim was with someone else who could have been one of a number of individuals who assaulted her. The court then subsequently determines that without the DNA evidence there is not enough evidence for a conviction.
There was another highly touted case in California a few years back where an individual the media claimed was innocent was released based on the discovery that the DNA recovered from the victim wasn't his. Several weeks after his release, the lab found a match: the victim's husband. Clearly, the individual who assaulted her hadn't left any evidence.
The courts need to be really careful about getting wowed by the science and deciding it 'proves' more that it actually proves.
That is a surprise. How often do jurors pass up their chance at 15 minutes of fame?
I'm no lawyer, so I don't know how recanted testimony works.
Down the memory hole...except for the family.
Thanks for posting. I didn't want to re-hash the whole thing again, but was going to post the verdict either way.
And thanks ONCE MORE to our bleeding heart friends at 'The Innocence Project' for releasing this ANIMAL back into society. Yeesh!
Avery had a felonious criminal record as long as his arm when they took the case. Can't they screen out for this kind of stuff before they go to bat for these types? I mean, people can change, but if you have a lengthy record of bad, criminal behavior from the time you're a teen, who deserves protection more? A criminal who obviously won't change his spots, or an innocent victim as was Theresa Halbach?
It appears that they're not even going to pursue the two other rapes by Avery soon after his release from prison, before he got to Theresa. The two women wouldn't testify, hoping that Theresa's murder would put him back behind bars forever. However, I hold them accountable in her death too because these cretins always escalate in violence.
It's a terrible, terrible shame the way this whole thing went down.
And thanks again Governor Doyle for vetoing CC in our state THREE TIMES. Too bad Theresa wasn't armed. Too bad NO WOMAN IN WISCONSIN can legally arm herself against predators when we're just going about our day, doing our jobs, or carting the kids around.
We're sitting ducks!
Those 18 years limited the damage, awful as it was, to one victim.
Even though it was a wrong conviction, there was a strange sort of justice in it.
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