Let's talk about SA's prior "bad acts"

Wendy101 said:

ML's incident interests me.. What made SA call Bryan D's ex GF and ask her to comeover for sex?? This case is so weird!!

Thanks for posting the links.. First time I read it.

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Limaes said:

#4 He didn't just endanger the life of SM. She had her baby in the car with her as well. I think it is appalling how MaM contorted that story. His motive for running her off the road was a sexual one and not anger about rumour mongering as was claimed. To put it simply, it was an attempted abduction.

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The 1982 facts were and are sensational and disgusting. Many people
have an admirable soft spot in their hearts for cats in particular, or for dependent,
cute animals that are common pets (and therefore often anthropomorphized)4 in
general' The apparent wanton cruelty and senselessness of the 1982 allegations
would distract and shock jurors, raising the specter that they would convict Avery
more easily because they could view him as inhuman or a monster. There is patent
unfairness and prejudice in evidence that at once tends to anthropomorphize and
thus cause empathy for a victim cat, and to dehumanize and thus reduce empathy
for the human being who is the accused. Avery's jurors should not be tempted to
the false conceit that they can impute to a cat more human qualities than they can
impute to Avery. This evidence fails the third step of Sullivan,as well.

4 An interesting, if in the end unanswerable, question is whether Avery would have been charged at all if the animal involved had been a barn rat or a common snake. Legally it should not have mattered. Factually, it might have.

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Avery pled guilty or no contest to the Morris charge
- but only after his wrongful conviction for the 1985 rape and on the expectation
that he would get a concurrent sentence (which he did). His failure to contest the
Morris charge must be understood in that context. He was a man whom the system
had failed, who was bitter, who by reason of immediate personal experience quite
understandably doubted the ability of juries to spare the innocent, and who was
giving up hope. If the Court admitted the Morris incident, it also would have to
allow this evidence of context

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missy1974 said:

http://www.stevenaverycase.org/wp-c...mo-Opposing-Uncharged-Misconduct-Evidence.pdf

this is the defense memo opposing the prior "bad acts"

a few things that stood out to me:

Page12 The cat



Page 13 the SM incident


This is something I did not realize, that he pled guilty or no contest AFTER being found guilty of the rape, that he did not commit.

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BigCityAccountant said:

I question that he pled guilty because of the wrongful conviction, a wronged man, who was bitter and giving up hope. She went to her parent's house and called police AFTER he followed her there. I'm sure she walked in the door and said, I have to use the phone to call the police because.....and I'm sure her parent or parents saw him out there lurking. He was guilty, so he pled guilty--nothing more nothing less. He was going to jail (at least for a bit)for the incident, no matter if he pled innocent or not.

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