The account of Steven Avery strikes as one of the most well-known cases of wrongful imprisonment in history. Steven Avery is an American from Wisconsin in the Manitowoc County who was imprisoned for eighteen years for a wrongful conviction of involving a sexual assault in 1985. Steven received exoneration through the assistance of a group known as the Wisconsin Innocence Project after improved DNA testing of evidence, which found a match to a completely new man.
The account of Steven Avery strikes as one of the most well-known cases of wrongful imprisonment in history. Steven Avery is an American from Wisconsin in the Manitowoc County who was imprisoned for eighteen years for a wrongful conviction of involving a sexual assault in 1985. Steven received exoneration through the assistance of a group known as the Wisconsin Innocence Project after improved DNA testing of evidence, which found a match to a completely new man.