The criminal justice system failed Steven Avery. He was a poor man, that was starting to rebuild his life, after being exonerated. He was very close to enjoying life, until he was implicated in the murder of Teresa Halbach.I think Steven Avery was framed and wrongfully convicted. The police fabricated the whole thing, the blood in the garage, the bones in the pit, and the car keys in Steven Avery’s bedroom, with no DNA match to the victim. The police never interviewed the ex-boyfriend and roommate. They never ask for their alibis. The police pin pointed their fingers to Steven. The ex boyfriend of Teresa was even allowed on the Avery’s property. I think the ex boyfriend know something. Since, he has accessed to Avery’s property, he can plant the bones . Something is not right. Why he had accessed and the Avery’s didn’t? I think its a conspiracy. The Avery’s were not permitted …show more content…
They wanted him to implicate the uncle. They coerced his statement made him say things that’s not true. He was easily to be manipulated. While being interrogated he did’nt have a lawyer and no parents. He was manipulated into given false confessions. They use his lack of common sense against him. They used him to fry his uncle, but little did he know he fried himself. There was no probable cause that a felony was commited. There was no DNA match on the premises that belong to the victim. Both defendants civil rights were violated. They weren’t given a fair trial. The criminal justice system gone wrong. The criminal justice system did’nt give them a chance. The system wasn’t for them. The system helped the state to fabricate and tarnished the two defendants
Even when Michael’s new defense team, through the innocence project, found a crime that was eerily similar to the method of murder and subsequent events to the one that Michael was convicted of, the new prosecutor in Williamson County fought hard to keep DNA testing from taking place, even stating that they objected to the testing now because the defense hadn’t requested it before (Morton, 2014). There was further evidence of ineffectiveness in that the coroner who’d changed his estimated time of death between the autopsy and trial, had come under scrutiny for his findings in this case, as well as several others, with claims of gross errors “including one case where he came to the conclusion that a man who’d been stabbed in the back had committed suicide” (Morton, 2014). This was only one of the many injustices that were committed against Michael Morton throughout his trial. In August of 2006, the defense was finally granted permission to perform DNA testing on the items that had been taken from his wife’s body (Morton, 2014). Although this testing did not reveal any information about the guilty party, it did at least give Michael the knowledge that Chris was not sexually violated before or after her death (Morton,
Teresa’s ex-boyfriend was never treated as a suspect in this case. They say Avery was the last person to see Teresa but Avery says “how can that be when I saw her leave that day”. Earl gives permission for them to search the junk yard and they found Teresa’s
They also find problems with evidence involving Teresa's RAV4, which was found on the Avery property, saying that there was a car crusher on location in the Avery Junkyard, and that any reasonable person would have destroyed the car, since they would’ve known that it could have been used as evidence against them. A great point is also brought up by them regarding Steven's blood being found in the car, saying that there were no fingerprints found in the car belonging to Steven, and that he would have needed to wear gloves, and even if he had worn gloves, then there would have been no way possible that he could have bled from his finger. It also doesn't make sense that the police suddenly found evidence in Avery's garage on March 1st of 2006, the bullet casings, even though they had been searching for 4 months prior without finding a shred of physical evidence. Lenk was also there when the search of the garage had happened, even though he was never even authorized to be there. And since he had mishandled a previous case that involved Steven Avery, which led to a wrong conviction that landed Steven Avery in an 18-year prison sentence for rape, a crime he didn’t commit, he was deposed as a result and relieved of his duties while also being sued by Avery on the basis of his wrongful conviction.
All of his appeals got denied. Then, his post-conviction lawyers Robert Henak and Stephen Glenn had the DNA evidence tested in 1995. The court shot down the evidence stating that the 3rd set of alleles from the test could have belonged to anyone and didn’t prove Steven’s innocence. Eventually, the Wisconsin Innocence Project got the rape kit tested again. The lab found a rooted pubic hair and tested it.
In 2003, after spending 18 years in prison, Avery was found not guilty of a sexual assault he’d long stated he didn’t commit. He maintained his innocence and was able to return to his
Dustin Seal, a junior at Powell High School, Knoxville, TN drove his mom’s car to Friday-night football game with his friends who had put a knife in the glove compartment without his information. Over a suspicion of drinking alcohol, school vice principal searched Dustin’s car and found a hunting knife. Being unaware of the knife Dustin got suspended with pending expulsion from Powell high by the principal. Following with several appeal processes School board sided with the school principal on expelling Dustin. His father sued the school board for violation of Dustin’s right under fourth and fourteenth amendments to Federal court ruled in favor of Seal and the case was settled with $30,000 award to Dustin.
With the controversy in Truscott's case that had helped spur the country to abolish the capital punishment in 1976 was starting to become bigger than it already was because people were starting to come together in the fight to help the wrongful convicted. This included a group of Lawyers in the association in Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted, who works together to establish the innocence of wrongfully convicted individuals, who were wanting to assist on a new trial to prove the innocence of Steven Truscott. In March 2000, after decades of staying quiet, he went public for the first time to publicly proclaim his innocence in a documentary broadcast on the CBC's The Fifth Estate which unveiled new evidence on the investigation of Harper's
They were innocent boys who were wrongly accused and convicted of a crime they didn’t commit. It wasn't until years later when DNA evidence proved their innocence that they got released from prison. Even though this happened to them, they are still fighting for justice today in hopes that no other innocent people get falsely
It is not until October 14, 2008 that a Florida grand jury accuses Casey of capital murder. Casey Anthony then proceeds to plead not guilty on all accounts. The investigation furthers to find two-year-old Caylee when, horrifically, her skeletal remains were recovered in a nearby wooded
Both men were successful in their appeals as a verdict of guilty could not be settled upon as the case was based on improbabilities and circumstantial evidence that could not lead to a definite
Not calling 911 and hiding the body was morally and criminally wrong. The lack of remorse bothered me as an utter disregard for her dead daughter and selfishness unparalleled. I believe that the prosecution’s putting the death
A lot.) There are many different sources of evidence leading towards different victims who could've committed the crime but in all there is only on killer. Amanda Knox is not guilty but, there is DNA proof that
If you were blamed for a crime you didn’t do, would you let that accusation go and let it tarnish your reputation? Would you let it fly by and have others judge from every angle? No, right? Normally people who get accused of crimes demand justice as they know they did not commit the crime and only justice can give them the freedom they deserve. But let’s look at Steve Harmon, the main character from the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers who was on trial for murder.
The Trial: One piece of evidence that was used to convict Steven of the murder of Lynne, was the fact he was the last person to have seen her alive on June 9th. The legal issue that arose from this claim was that witnesses corroborated Steven’s story. Steven old police that the last time he saw Lynne alive was when he left her at the intersection of the County Road and
Both of them had been bullied and didn 't seek help. As awful of a thing that was, we can 't only blame them for being bad people. We need to also blame society, for putting all this pressure on