Fearing for their personal safety, a juror from Steven Avery’s 2005 murder trial recently informed the filmmakers of Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” that the juror was under duress when voting to convict him and accused law enforcement of framing Avery. In a clear conflict of interest, at least two of the jurors were directly related to members of the sheriff’s office and the clerk’s office, which was accused of tampering with his blood.
Although Steven Avery had a few prior run-ins with the law, the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office did not take a personal interest in Avery until he was charged with assaulting his cousin who was married to a sheriff’s deputy. In 1985, Avery admitted to running his cousin off the road and threatening her with an unloaded shotgun for spreading rumors about his sexual activity. Later that year, Avery was charged with sexually assaulting Penny Beernsten and served 18 years in prison.
Instead of following up other valid leads, the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office pinned Avery as the attempted rapist until DNA analysis exonerated him for the crime. In April 2002, attorneys for the Wisconsin Innocence Project obtained a court order for DNA testing, which linked a hair in the crime to convicted felon Gregory Allen, who was serving a 60-year prison sentence for sexual assault. After attacking Beernsten, Allen attempted to rape at least one other woman while an innocent man sat in prison for a crime that Allen had committed
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