The Avery Family

Steven Avery did not give up and tried to prove his innocence. He tried in 1995 with some evidence under Beersten’s fingernails. While it revealed that it matched an unknown assailant, it didn’t eliminate Avery (Weghorst & Warden). In 2002, an attorney from Wisconsin Innocence Project got a court order to analyze the pubic hair collected in the rape kit, which was submitted to be compare to FBI databases. The hair did not match Avery, but did match Gregory Allen, who also lived around the area (Davey, 2005). In an article written by Susan Smith, she described this revelation as a “Cold Hit” because neither the scientist nor the police were looking for Gregory Allen despise the fact that there were several factors that would make him a suspect (Smith, 2006). On September 11, 2003, this revelation also made a joint motion by Manitowoc District Attorney’s Office and the Wisconsin Innocence Project to dismiss all the charges against Avery. The motion was granted and Steven Avery was released (Possley).

Tammy was the exoneree and was charged and arrested on November 23rd, 1993 for the second degree murder of her 2 ½ year old son Kenneth. Charles Smith the leading expert in Canada on performed Kenneth’s autopsy and insisted that the cause of death was asphyxia. Smith convinced the crown that Tammy was a young mother with limited financial resources, parenting and coping skills, and was involved in an unstable relationship with Rick and Tammy was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 10 years.

They believed because DNA from a male not matching anyone in the investigation had meant an intruder was responsible for the murder. The elite seven used world-renowned forensic criminalist, Dr. Henry Lee and his laboratory in Connecticut to dispel the concluded interpretation of the DNA evidence (The Case of JonBenet, 2016). The touch-DNA method is extremely sensitive and Dr. Lee proved that by testing a pair of brand new panties never opened out of the package. He was easily able to discover DNA from a female on the underwear, which could have come from someone in the manufacturing process (The Case of JonBenet, 2016). This explains the male DNA found in JonBenet’s panties and even more so, Dr. Lee explained how this DNA can easily transfer from one garment to another such as sliding on long johns over underwear (The Case of JonBenet, 2016). Dr. Lee’s tests and expert analysis discredits the district attorney’s choice to eliminate the parents as suspects (The Case of JonBenet,

In 1971, New York Times columnist Fred Ferretti wrote an article about a new television series called All in the Family. Ferretti asked, whether or not if racism and bigotry were considered funny and he concluded that it was not and as a result believed that the show was lacking good taste. Apparently, the television viewers of America disagreed. Running from 1971 to 1979, All In The Family wasn’t the first television series to tackle major issues on a major network, but what was innovative about the series, was that is that it hewed its situational comedy from topical issues, and it explored them through characters we got to know and cared about every week. Simply put, All in the Family wasn’t just a great situational comedy; it as was an ongoing national conversation rooted in well-written, well-acted and multifaceted characters.

The Dionne family, was started by father Oliva-Eduardo and mother Elzire Dionne, got married on September 15, 1925.They lived just outside of Corbeil, Ontario, in a farmhouse. The Dionne's were a family of five previous children: Ernest, Rose Marie, Therese, Daniel and Pauline. The Dionne's also had three sons after the quintuplets: Oliva Jr, Victor and Claud.

During the trial Beernsten identified Steven Avery as the man who attacked her. A forensic examiner from the state testified that a hair was found on one of Avery's shirts and it was consistent with Beernsten's, but it was not conclusive. Although Avery was able to present 16 witnesses to corroborate his alibi he was still convicted of sexual assault and attempted

Near the end of the book, Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz are Exonerated from the murder of Debbie Carter. They had been in prison for the crime for 12 years due to the crime. This story illustrates the result of poor police work, junk science, lying witnesses, bad defense lawyers, and arrogant prosecutors. On December 7th, 1982, in Ada, Oklahoma, Debbie Carter was horrifically raped in murdered in her apartment in Ada. The police were under enormous pressure to solve the crime, the result being what i said above. Ron Williamson, and Dennis Fritz were framed for the murder, but were not arrested until five years after the murder, after Ron’s alibi witness was dead. The trial, which was littered with junk science, lying witnesses, poor defense

Mama Mia Capapasosa Sockscalp was born on July 12, 1242 in Furrington, Furria to Mabel and Maurice Sockscalp. She had no siblings. Mabel Sockscalp (née Tiffany) was the daughter of a wealthy business owner, and Maurice came from an honorable line of royal advisers to the King. Mia had a comfortable childhood in the upper-crust of Furrington society, but her parents were often absent due to their extravagant and high-paying careers. This resulted in Mia's distant and off-putting deposition.

On December 2, 2010 Steven Hayes was condemned to death in Connecticut. He was found guilty on 16 out of 17 counts related to the home invasion murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, age 48, and her daughters Hayley Petit, 17, and Michaela Petit, 11. William Petit, husband / father of the deceased, survived the attack. Hayes and his accomplice, Joshua Komisarjevsky, 33, followed Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and her two daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, to their Cheshire home on July 23, 2007, as a planned robbery. The scheme ended with both men raping Michaela and Hawke-Petit, whom Hayes strangled. The men covered the home in gasoline and left the girls tied up before lighting the residence on fire. Both girls died of smoke inhalation. The lone survivor was husband and father Dr. William Petit Jr., who escaped his basement prison before the

In Steven Avery’s case and Tom Robinson’s case the men experience some form of isolation in their society; yet the reasoning shows noticeable differences among Steven Avery and Tom Robinson. The case of Tom Robinson and Steven Avery are similar in that Steven and Tom both experience being outcasts of their communities. Yet a way that Tom Robinson’s case differentiates itself from Steven Avery’s case is that the reasoning for Tom’s isolation is based on the color of his skin; being black. While Steven is considered an outcast

In society today there are many people in the prison system who are wrongly imprisoned for crimes that they aren’t guilty of the crimes that they are charged with. This, however, is not the case with our main character Steve Harmon. Although he was acquitted of the charges he was indeed guilty of assisting in the robbery. Steve is guilty of assisting in the robbery because of Bobo Evans’ testimony, Mrs.Henry’s Identification of Steve, and Osvaldo Cruz’s testimony. During the trial, it is discovered that Steve had at least conversed with bobo about the robbery.

Have you ever been on trial for a murder you didn’t commit, and risked the rest of your life being spent in jail? Probably not, but in the book "Monster" that is the case for Steve Harmon, a poor African-American in rundown Harlem in the book "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers, which is a fascinating piece of Young adult literature. The story is told from Steve’s perspective in a movie format. It does this as it seems to be like a movie in his mind that follows his life in jail and in the courtroom. The search for truth is the most important and overriding theme in this story.

How: Donald Smith was the suspect at first because everything matches the crime scene. But then he later said that he has a identical twin and his name is Ronald Smith. Ronald Smith later then got tested for his fingerprints and were matched with the one at the crime scene and he admitted to his crime. Case 4: Who: The victim was a 78 year old Lucille Johnson and the suspect was John

On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates, a 46 year old woman and loving wife of Rusty Yates, murdered her five children. First, Andrea drowned her three youngest boys in their bathtub, removed them from the water, laid them on her bed, and then covered them with a bedsheet. Next she drowned her daughter, Mary, and as she was doing so, her oldest son, Noah, asked what was wrong with his sister. Once he saw that Mary was mangled in the bathtub, he started to run away from Andrea. Andrea chased Noah and forcefully held him underwater until his breathing diminished. Next, she grabbed Mary out of the tub and laid her in her three brothers, John, Paul, and Luke’s laps, leaving Noah’s disfigured body suspended in the tub.

The displacement of Oscar’s family parallels the final plot in the book: the historical narrative of the Dominican diaspora and its connections to the Dominican Republic. Diaz uses footnotes to connect the fiction story to history. Together they work as the collective memory between the trauma of the Trujillo dictatorship and their long-term collective violence on the people. “Outstanding accomplishments include: the 1937 genocide against the Haitian and Haitian-Dominican community; one of the longest, most damaging U.S. backed dictators in the Western Hemisphere...” (Diaz 2). Because of Trujillo’s violent rule, many social inequalities erupted and Dominicans were forced to leave the country. The displacement in the United States and exclusion