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As much as the defence attorneys of Steven Avery wanted to sling mud on the wall to see what stuck, as much as they wanted to state that their client Avery was framed … THE VERDICT IS IN … GUILTY!!!
Steven Avery was convicted of first degree murder of 23 year old Teresa Halbach. Avery faces a mandatory life in prison term for his heinous actions. May he rot in hell as well.
The jury convicted Avery of first-degree intentional homicide and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was acquitted of mutilating a corpse. The panel deliberated over 3 days and heard a month of testimony.
Halbach disappeared Oct. 31, 2005, after going to the salvage yard in rural Manitowoc County to photograph a minivan that Avery’s sister had for sale through Auto Trader Magazine. Avery called that morning to request the photo, testimony showed. (Fox News)
March 19th, 2007 at 12:25pm
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A judge is expected to decide Friday morning whether Brendan Dassey’s statements to police in the Teresa Halbach case should be admissible.
Sixteen-year-old Dassey told police he was involved in Halbach’s rape and murder last October 31st.
Dassey’s attorney argues the statements were not voluntary, and that Dassey didn’t have the intellect or sophistication to understand what was happening when police interviewed him.
(WBAY – TV)
Prosecutors have stated that authorities didn’t coerce 16-year-old Brendan Dassey into telling investigators about his alleged involvement in the killing of Teresa Halbach last October.
Ken Kratz said that Dassey’s statements are admissible in court because he was interviewed properly and he wasn’t forced to confess, WISC-TV reported.
May 11th, 2006 at 10:47pm
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For now prosecutors will no decide on whether to pursue an allegation that Steven Avery sexually assaulted a teenage girl in 2004. They will make the determination after Steven Avery stands trial on murder and rape charges against Teresa Halbach.
The teenage accuser agreed with the decision and does not want her allegation prosecuted at this time, District Attorney John Zakowski said.
“We believe this decision to be in the public interest after considering all the circumstances, and certainly in the best interests of the complainant,” he said.
Zakowski was asked to evaluate the sexual assault allegation made in Manitowoc County in August 2004, more than a year before Avery was accused in the murder of Teresa Halbach, also in Manitowoc County.
One wonders whether this rape allegation would have ever seen the light of day if it had not been for Steven Avery’s involvement and arrest in the rape and murder of Teresa Halbach? It would appear that the that due to the release of Steve Avery in 2003 after spending 18 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit; authorities were none too anxious to try Avery on another rape charge.
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April 13th, 2006 at 01:06pm
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Calumet County Circuit Judge Donald Poppy has ruled that the civil case brought forth by the Halbach family against Steven Avery wrongful death lawsuit must be moved to Manitowoc County. Since Steven Avery is of Manitowoc County the trial must take place there.
A Calumet County judge ruled Thursday that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Teresa Halbach’s family against Steven Avery must be heard in Manitowoc County because that is Avery’s home county.
Halbach lived in Calumet County but was killed at Avery’s home in Manitowoc County, authorities say.
Madison attorney Dean Strang, who is representing Avery in the wrongful death lawsuit and defending him against homicide charges in Halbach’s death, had filed several motions in the lawsuit.
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The Halbach family has also asked that the assets of Steven Avery be frozen. They look to seize future earnings of Steven Avery as well as his recent monies he was rewarded for his wrongful conviction, a suit later settled for $400,000.
Attorneys for the family of a photographer murdered last Halloween have asked a judge to freeze some financial assets of the man accused of killing her.
Lawyers for Teresa Halbach’s family also plan to file a motion asking that any future earnings of defendant Steven Avery be frozen until a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family is settled.
(WFRV)
March 27th, 2006 at 11:45am
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Defense attorney Len Kachinsky who is representing 16-year-old Brendan Dassey in the murder of Teresa Halbach states that a plea may definitely be in the best interest of his client.
The attorney for Steven Avery’s nephew said that a plea deal could be in the boy’s best interest.
Defense attorney Len Kachinsky is representing 16-year-old Brendan Dassey. The teen and his uncle are charged in Manitowoc County with sexually assaulting and killing freelance photographer Teresa Halbach before destroying her body.
(The Milwaukee Channel)
March 12th, 2006 at 11:35pm
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If you are looking for a Steven Avery to somehow be a victim in all of this in that he spent years in jail on an unjust prison term; you may want to think again. Steven Avery was far from a choir boy.
Many of us can’t quite get over the apparent irony of Avery, once best-known as an innocent man wrongly convicted of a 1985 rape by overzealous law enforcement, turning around and becoming, it’s accused, a monster far worse than anything anyone conjured up when he was long ago railroaded.
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Steven Avery had a troubled past for quite some time.
March 11th, 2006 at 12:50pm
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Steven Avery, who is already being charged in the murder of Teresa Halbach had further charges added to the litany of ones for the brutal and heinous murder of the young freelance photographer.
Additional charges filed Wednesday accuse Avery of being party to first-degree sexual assault, kidnapping and false imprisonment of Halbach. The maximum punishment for the new charges are 106 years in prison.
(JS Online – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel )
Judge rules Dassey will be tried as an adult.
A Manitowoc County Circuit Court judge ruled Friday that Brendan Dassey will be tried as an adult for the crimes related to the death of Teresa Halbach, according to the Appleton Post- Crescent.
(Fourth Estate – UWGB)
March 10th, 2006 at 12:03am
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Finally an Avery family member with a conscience. Arland Avery, the uncle of Steven Avery and great-uncle of Brendan Dassey, stated he thinks the two are guilty of Teresa Halbach’s murder.
He says there’s too much evidence to think otherwise.
“I believe that he could have been a hero and Teresa Halbach would have been alive today. If they did commit the crime, then they should rot in hell.”
(WBAY)
That is pretty much the consensus opinion of many and the reason why this heinous murder of Teresa Halbach has brought back talks to possibly reinstate the “death penalty” in Wisconsin.
March 9th, 2006 at 11:38pm
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Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey face a monumental task in proving their innocence in the murder of Teresa Halbach. You know you are in trouble when attorneys who have handled cases for serial kills want no part of your case and are glad they never involved themselves. That would be a serious problem.
The lawyer who handled David Spanbauer’s serial murders says he’s glad he’s not involved in Teresa Halbach’s murder case, which now involves Steven Avery and Avery’s 16-year-old nephew, Brendan Dassey.
Spanbauer was convicted in 1994 of kidnapping and murdering two children, and murdering a young Appleton woman about Teresa Halbach’s age.
Tom Zoesch earned a lot of praise for the way he handled Spanbauer’s case, but he found his experience handling Spanbauer emotionally draining.
“I was able to successfully keep my professional cool until it was all done. It wasn’t easy, but I was able to do it,” Zoesch told us. “Then I just broke down. I went home and I was just weeping.”
One could imagine that if this would be difficult for a lawyer who has handled serial killer cases, imagine what the potential jury must deal with?
But he’s uneasy with all the graphic details made public about how Avery and his nephew allegedly murdered Teresa Halbach. “If it goes to trial, I think it’s going to be difficult to find twelve people who haven’t formed some sort of opinion,” he said.
(WBAY TV)
March 6th, 2006 at 11:26pm
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The recent horrific and unspeakable rape and murder of Teresa Halbach has reinvigorated efforts to reinstate the death penalty in Wisconsin. The recent announcements of what occurred to Teresa Halbach at the hands of Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey have shocked the collective conscience of most all.
The release of horrific details about Teresa Halbach’s death likely will reinvigorate efforts to reinstate the death penalty in Wisconsin, say two Fox Valley legislators and a prominent defense attorney.
“I expect that you are going to see people now asking for Wisconsin to reinstate the death penalty because, if these statements are true, this man’s as vicious as they come,” Boyle said. “I’ve already heard that argument being made on the radio.”
The description of how Teresa Halbach was allegedly raped and murdered has upset some by the graphic details but has outraged others to begin to discuss that there must be a greater penalty for those that would commit such heinous crimes other than life in prison.
Boyle, the Milwaukee attorney, said the details of the case have sparked outrage, and that “is going to cause a lot of people to start saying the penalty of life in prison without parole isn’t severe enough.”
(Appleton Post-Crescent)
March 4th, 2006 at 03:41pm
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