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On December 18th Netflix released a new documentary 10 part series that was filmed over the course of ten years about the plight of a Wiscnsin man, Steven Avery, and his mentally slow nephew, Brendan Dassey.
The episode began with Avery's home coming upon his release from prison in 2003. He was exonerated from his 1985 sexual assault conviction, for which he had served 18 years for a crime someone else did, after DNA analysis pointed to another man.
Despite a complete lack of forensic evidence and no proof he was even near the crime scene but another man (a sexual predator under surveillance but wasn't watched on that day) who fit the description and had the opportunity, it didn't matter to the Manitowoc County sheriffs. The sheriffs involved in the case were hell bent on pinning the crime on Avery for their longstanding dislike of the Avery family which they deemed as evil and should be driven out of town.
When the neighboring Brown County investigator made a call to tell the Manitowoc County Sheriff's office that they had the wrong man in prison because another man held in Brown County had admitted to the crime, the Manitowoc sheriff simply dismissed it by saying they had the right man in prison. The Manitowoc sheriff's Dept subsequently kept that information to themselves. The report was only made for record purpose the day Avery was exonerated.
A year after his release from prison, Avery subsequently filed a $36 million federal lawsuit not only against Manitowoc County but also individually against the sheriffs involved in the wrongful conviction. Since this was a case regarding official misconduct, the County and the former sheriffs would be on their own to bear the financial fall because the insurance had denied liability. Their depositions were subsequently conducted on Oct 13 and Oct 26, 2005.
But, lo and behold, five days later, on Oct 31 (Halloween day), Theresa Halbach went missing. While the Manitowoc County sheriff's dept were put in the hot seat in the depostion, all of a sudden the tide turned and Avery once again found himself under investigation by the same group of corrupt sheriffs who had put him away in prison for 18 years with wrongful conviction and were now facing a dire and desastrous civil lawsuit.
The coincidence smells so fishy to me once I watched up to this point. After watching further into the documentary series, it confirmed my haunch that these same corrupt sheriffs were at it again. But, get this, one of the senior sheriffs on camera during a press interview told the reporter that it would be easier for them to kill Avery than to plant evidence to frame him. So, murdering someone is much easier for the sheriffs? To think they could even harbor that kind of thought and express it publicly in the position of law enforement official. That's scary!
They not only planted evidence to frame Avery (it's so glaringly obvious) but in order to ensure Avery's conviction they also did the most despicable and disgusting deed of taking advantage of a mentally slow 16 year old kid whose vocab consisted mostly of slow slurring "yeah", "well", "yeah", "well","NOooo", "I don't know", "I'm stupid", "Whad'ya mean?"... He didn't even know what "inconsistent" meant and had to call his mom from jail house, where he sat, to ask her what it meant. His mom didn't know better either.
But things get even worst, his public defense lawyer through his private investigator threw him under the bus and coerced him to confess in writing and drawing and then arranged for him to be interrogated by the sheriffs without his lawyer's presence.
The trial judge and the Wisconsin Appeal Court weren't any better either. The same goes to the WSC. I've seen Appellate Courts often set aside jury verdict or ruled police interrogation inadmissible based on the slightest technicality when it comes to truly seasoned cold blooded murderers who had lengthy criminal records or violence, rape and murder. But, when it comes to Avery and this poor 16 year old mentally slow kid, the justice system somehow completely failed them time and time again. The system just flopped when it comes to innocence being accused.
Watch those interrogation videos and the whole episode of this 10 part documentary series. You'd be extremely incensed at such colossal official corruption from top to bottom and the grave travesty of justice that was done on this man and his low IQ nephew.
If you don't have apple TV to stream the Netflix movie, here's the first episode on Youtube:
Here is Steven Avery Appeal Fund website with summary of the story that you can read:
https://www.fundedjustice.com/en/projects/27412-Steven-Avery-Appeal-Fund
Here's is the link to WH petition you can sign if you think we should right the wrong and injustice against Avery and Dassey:
https://t.co/hcFqpYAl9E
The episode began with Avery's home coming upon his release from prison in 2003. He was exonerated from his 1985 sexual assault conviction, for which he had served 18 years for a crime someone else did, after DNA analysis pointed to another man.
Despite a complete lack of forensic evidence and no proof he was even near the crime scene but another man (a sexual predator under surveillance but wasn't watched on that day) who fit the description and had the opportunity, it didn't matter to the Manitowoc County sheriffs. The sheriffs involved in the case were hell bent on pinning the crime on Avery for their longstanding dislike of the Avery family which they deemed as evil and should be driven out of town.
When the neighboring Brown County investigator made a call to tell the Manitowoc County Sheriff's office that they had the wrong man in prison because another man held in Brown County had admitted to the crime, the Manitowoc sheriff simply dismissed it by saying they had the right man in prison. The Manitowoc sheriff's Dept subsequently kept that information to themselves. The report was only made for record purpose the day Avery was exonerated.
A year after his release from prison, Avery subsequently filed a $36 million federal lawsuit not only against Manitowoc County but also individually against the sheriffs involved in the wrongful conviction. Since this was a case regarding official misconduct, the County and the former sheriffs would be on their own to bear the financial fall because the insurance had denied liability. Their depositions were subsequently conducted on Oct 13 and Oct 26, 2005.
But, lo and behold, five days later, on Oct 31 (Halloween day), Theresa Halbach went missing. While the Manitowoc County sheriff's dept were put in the hot seat in the depostion, all of a sudden the tide turned and Avery once again found himself under investigation by the same group of corrupt sheriffs who had put him away in prison for 18 years with wrongful conviction and were now facing a dire and desastrous civil lawsuit.
The coincidence smells so fishy to me once I watched up to this point. After watching further into the documentary series, it confirmed my haunch that these same corrupt sheriffs were at it again. But, get this, one of the senior sheriffs on camera during a press interview told the reporter that it would be easier for them to kill Avery than to plant evidence to frame him. So, murdering someone is much easier for the sheriffs? To think they could even harbor that kind of thought and express it publicly in the position of law enforement official. That's scary!
They not only planted evidence to frame Avery (it's so glaringly obvious) but in order to ensure Avery's conviction they also did the most despicable and disgusting deed of taking advantage of a mentally slow 16 year old kid whose vocab consisted mostly of slow slurring "yeah", "well", "yeah", "well","NOooo", "I don't know", "I'm stupid", "Whad'ya mean?"... He didn't even know what "inconsistent" meant and had to call his mom from jail house, where he sat, to ask her what it meant. His mom didn't know better either.
But things get even worst, his public defense lawyer through his private investigator threw him under the bus and coerced him to confess in writing and drawing and then arranged for him to be interrogated by the sheriffs without his lawyer's presence.
The trial judge and the Wisconsin Appeal Court weren't any better either. The same goes to the WSC. I've seen Appellate Courts often set aside jury verdict or ruled police interrogation inadmissible based on the slightest technicality when it comes to truly seasoned cold blooded murderers who had lengthy criminal records or violence, rape and murder. But, when it comes to Avery and this poor 16 year old mentally slow kid, the justice system somehow completely failed them time and time again. The system just flopped when it comes to innocence being accused.
Watch those interrogation videos and the whole episode of this 10 part documentary series. You'd be extremely incensed at such colossal official corruption from top to bottom and the grave travesty of justice that was done on this man and his low IQ nephew.
If you don't have apple TV to stream the Netflix movie, here's the first episode on Youtube:
Here is Steven Avery Appeal Fund website with summary of the story that you can read:
https://www.fundedjustice.com/en/projects/27412-Steven-Avery-Appeal-Fund
Here's is the link to WH petition you can sign if you think we should right the wrong and injustice against Avery and Dassey:
https://t.co/hcFqpYAl9E
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