# Steven Avery

Overturned · 2007

Steven Allan Avery (born July 9, 1962) is an American from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin who was convicted of murder in 2007. He had previously been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of sexual assault and attempted murder. After serving 18 years of a 32-year sentence (six of those years being concurrent with a kidnapping sentence), Avery was exonerated by DNA testing and released in 2003, only to be charged with murder in…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=3133353
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/steven-avery-w3133353

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1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=3133353


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