Steven Avery's June 2022 mug shot. PC: Fox 11 Online
(WTAQ-WLUK) – Steven Avery personally wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court asking for a new trial, saying he is the “victim of a set up and it has to be fixed now.”
Avery, 62, is serving a life sentence for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach, a freelance photographer. Avery has maintained his innocence, but every appeal, to this point, has been denied.
After a state appeals court denied his latest appeal, Avery’s attorney asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take the case. It has not made a ruling on if it will do so.
Despite that official process being underway, Avery typed a six-page letter to the court from Fox Lake Correctional Institution – addressed to the Chief Justice – raising some of the same issues his appeals have addressed – and were rejected by the courts.
“The real killer could have killed again and the state is protect him of my miscarriage of justice. New trial should be (granted) for miscarriage of justice. Defendant was convicted of an offense that he did not commit. The criminal justice system is Broken; And it has to be fixed and this is the time to fix it and get it right, because I’m a victim of a setup and it has to be fixed now,” he wrote.
Among the specific claims Avery makes:
- That Sheboygan County Judge Angela Sutkiewicz, who denied several motions at the circuit court level, “turned a blind eye to much of the evidence and also refused to admit probative admissible evidence that, when evaluated under the proper standing, is damning.”
- That the courts should allow him to blame another suspect for Halbach’s death.
- That his rights were violated when it returned remains to the Halbach family.
Prosecutors have not responded to the letter.
Avery’s nephew, Brendan Dassey, was also convicted. Dassey’s appeals have all been rejected, and he has none pending.
Their cases received worldwide attention with the 2015 release of the Netflix series “Making A Murderer.”
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