After 18 years in prison for a sexual assault he didn't commit, Steven Avery resides in prison for the murder of Teresa Halbach, is he innocent? Manitowoc county and Steven Avery locked in a lifelong feud. Making a Murderer presents the detailed past of Steven Avery’s life and the hardships he faced from the police department. The Manitowoc county justice system showed no sympathy towards Steven Avery convicting him of a sexual assault and a murder with suspicious evidence and shaky reasoning. Steven Avery of Manitowoc county got sentenced to 32 years in prison for the rape of Penny Beernsten a crime which he did not commit. Sixteen alibi witnesses testified on Avery’s behalf accounting for him while the crime was being committed. This did not matter to the Manitowoc county police department. The police had “tunnel-vision” in the sexual assault conviction of Steven Avery. The Manitowoc county police department only had one suspect in mind when the incident…show more content… There is an argument to be made that Avery was singled out and treated unfairly in both cases. In the sexual assault case, Penny Beernsten described her attacker and Judy Dvorak suggested that it sounded like Steven Avery. A composite sketch was drawn of Steven Avery by Gene Kusche from an old mugshot of Avery. Of course Beernsten chose Avery out of the line because the police subconsciously told exactly who the attacker was. In the murder case the only suspect the police ever looked into was Steven Avery and most of the evidence against Avery was uncovered by Manitowoc county police who were unsupervised when most of the evidence was found. Once Steven Avery got out of prison for the sexual assault he had a bullseye on his back from the police. It is plausible that the police arrested Avery for the murder in hope that it would cover up their previous blunder by showing that he really was a criminal. (Making a
