Now then...I really do not know what to say at this point, as I have just finished reading the
Review of Steven Avery's overturned conviction.
First of all, I should draw everyone's attention to the first sentence in the
Summary Of Facts. To the best of my knowledge, there is absolutely no mention of a
knife in the MTSO investigation cited in the
20p 1985 PB assault and MTSO investigation.
From that point on, the
Review never really reviews evidence against Steven Avery. Rather, it is an entire review of Gregory Allen.
Behind the scenes though, the review hits upon the primary reason why Avery was convicted: no one in the process truly cared whether or not Avery got a fair trial. He was found guilty not because no one found a reasonable doubt; he was found guilty because no one cared. It is doubtful that Avery's public defender did much more than shuffle papers while the prosecution spent no time questioning the prejudicial attitude that the Manitowoc Sheriff's Office had stirred like a witch's brew.
Of course, looking back now at Avery's bad behavior prior to 1985* one wonders if he was just another Gregory Allen in the making....
By 2005, apparently he was.
*I have seen and read some nasty, unsealed, Secondary Supplementary information to his 2006 Trial.