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http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_17780654.shtml
TWO RIVERS - A man released from prison a year ago after serving 18 years
for a rape he didn't commit said he tries to keep his spirits high but he's
still dealing with emotional scars.
Steven Avery left Stanley Correctional Institution on Sept. 11, 2003, thanks
to the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a law-school group that pushed for the
DNA analysis that proved his innocence.
He was sentenced to 32 years in prison in 1985 on charges of first-degree
sexual assault, attempted murder and false imprisonment stemming from an
attack on a woman jogger near Two Rivers.
He remembered the day he walked out of prison.
"Probably the most wonderful thing I ever felt. I had so much hate when I
was in there. When I came out the door, it was gone," Avery said.
But Avery said his time in prison permanently damaged relationships in his
life.
"I've still got a lot of anger today," Avery said
By the end of September, Avery's attorneys expect to file a lawsuit in
federal court against the state, and a claim with the state Claims Board,
hoping to get Avery compensation for the 18 years he lost.
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I wonder if he can sue the girl who put him there. I am sure it was an
honest mistake, but who cares. If you ran over someone by accident you still
have to pay. I think she should have to pay. DNA is amazing.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_17780654.shtml
TWO RIVERS - A man released from prison a year ago after serving 18 years
for a rape he didn't commit said he tries to keep his spirits high but
he's
still dealing with emotional scars.
Steven Avery left Stanley Correctional Institution on Sept. 11, 2003,
thanks
to the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a law-school group that pushed for the
DNA analysis that proved his innocence.
He was sentenced to 32 years in prison in 1985 on charges of first-degree
sexual assault, attempted murder and false imprisonment stemming from an
attack on a woman jogger near Two Rivers.
He remembered the day he walked out of prison.
"Probably the most wonderful thing I ever felt. I had so much hate when I
was in there. When I came out the door, it was gone," Avery said.
But Avery said his time in prison permanently damaged relationships in his
life.
"I've still got a lot of anger today," Avery said
By the end of September, Avery's attorneys expect to file a lawsuit in
federal court against the state, and a claim with the state Claims Board,
hoping to get Avery compensation for the 18 years he lost.
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Since he got raped in jail, she deserves to be raped by men as a just punishment.
"s_knight8" <s_knight8nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<ci5lqg$jn7@dispatch.concentric.net>...
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_17780654.shtml
TWO RIVERS - A man released from prison a year ago after serving 18 years
for a rape he didn't commit said he tries to keep his spirits high but he's
still dealing with emotional scars.
Steven Avery left Stanley Correctional Institution on Sept. 11, 2003, thanks
to the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a law-school group that pushed for the
DNA analysis that proved his innocence.
He was sentenced to 32 years in prison in 1985 on charges of first-degree
sexual assault, attempted murder and false imprisonment stemming from an
attack on a woman jogger near Two Rivers.
He remembered the day he walked out of prison.
"Probably the most wonderful thing I ever felt. I had so much hate when I
was in there. When I came out the door, it was gone," Avery said.
But Avery said his time in prison permanently damaged relationships in his
life.
"I've still got a lot of anger today," Avery said
By the end of September, Avery's attorneys expect to file a lawsuit in
federal court against the state, and a claim with the state Claims Board,
hoping to get Avery compensation for the 18 years he lost.
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:38:50 -0700, "aluckyguess"
<aluckyguess@yahoo.com> wrote:
I wonder if he can sue the girl who put him there. I am sure it was an
honest mistake, but who cares. If you ran over someone by accident you still
have to pay. I think she should have to pay. DNA is amazing.
I am not sure how an honest mistake can make a woman identify someone as
her attacker, put him through this.
DNA is a great thing to exonerate innocent people and to expose lies,
like it did with Kobe's accuser.
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I wonder if he can sue the girl who put him there. I am sure it was an
honest mistake, but who cares. If you ran over someone by accident you still
have to pay. I think she should have to pay. DNA is amazing.
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Unless it could be proven that she did it on purpose or with at least
with reckless disregard I don't think so if it was a stranger on
stranger rape. It could be another tragic case of missidentification.
A "date rape" situation is another story perhaps. I am not familiar
with the case but if anyone should be sued it is the state. At the
very least he should get compensation, I would feel that $100,000 a
year for every year in prison is about right. Too much I imagine some
of you are saying? If anything it is too low. YOU suffer in prison for
a crime you did not commit; and for such an ungly one at that. Not
only you are looked at as the lowest of the low in law abiding
society, you are near the bottom in prision "society", so 100 "Gs" a
year in compo is very cheap for the state to pay (that comes to $1.8
million in this case).
For more American horror stories go to www.truthinjustice.org.
And consider that many rape cases were and are prosecuted without any
DNA evidence to test; that biological materials from sexual assualt
cases from say the 1980's and before, prior the the DNA revolution
were, and are still being destroyed after a prosecution is secure.
Now throw in robberies that untill very recently-within the last five
years-did not involve any DNA material but relied almost solely on
eyewitness descriptions you have a hell of a mess.
And it is not only an american phenomenon:
www.injusticebusters.com for Canadian tragedies.
http://innocent.org.uk for British unsafe convictions.
And there are to be sure Australian and New Zealand misscarriages of
justice I can't find the Astralian and New Zealand equvialents to the
above yet. I try to keep the comparisions to the English speaking
world for the fact that the justice systems resemble each other very
closely; obviously because Australia, Cananda, the U.S. and New
Zealand were once colonies to Great Britain and settled by the
British. The French and Italian systems of justice for instances
starts of with the belief that you are guilty until proven innocent.
At least they are up front about it right?
----->Hunter
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