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Exonerated After 18 Years, Only To Be Imprisoned for Life
Steven Avery became the unlikely hero of a Netflix documentary.
Steven Allan Avery currently serves a life imprisonment sentence without the chance of parole in a correctional facility in Wisconsin.
He was convicted in 2007 and has spent 14 years in prison for the murder.
However, his total term spent in jail stands at about 32 years — 18 of which came from a wrongful conviction made in 1985. Around the time of his second arrest in 2007, he was the only one of the close to 200 exonerees of the Innocent Project to have been charged with a violent crime after their release.
However, the story isn’t as simple as it looks. What led to an innocent man going to jail for a crime he didn’t commit? And what drove him to actually commit murder after being released from almost two decades of imprisonment?
Or did he actually even commit the murder this time, or was he a victim of yet another wrongful conviction? Could one man be so unlucky? Let me go back to the original and proven wrongful conviction before we make any conclusions.
Who is Steven Avery?
Steven Avery was born in 1962 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin and right from the start was never the…
