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'''Steven Allan Avery''' (born July 9, 1962)<ref name="Manitowoc"/><ref name="DigitalSpy">{{cite news |last1=Katie |first1=Byrne |title=Making a Murderer: A complete timeline of the Steven Avery case |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a868576/making-a-murderer-timeline-steven-avery/ |website=[[Digital Spy]] |access-date=December 29, 2021 |date=October 16, 2018}}</ref> is an American convicted murderer from [[Manitowoc County, Wisconsin]],<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3003 |title=Steven Avery |website= National Registry of Exonerations|access-date= October 6, 2018}}</ref> who 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 [[exoneration|exonerated]] by [[DNA profiling|DNA testing]] and released in 2003, only to be charged with an other murder case two years later.<ref name="Messer, Lesley 5 things to know">{{cite news|last1=Messer|first1=Lesley|title=5 Things to Know About Steven Avery From 'Making a Murderer'|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/things-steven-avery-making-murderer/story?id=36090236|access-date=January 12, 2016|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=January 5, 2016}}</ref><ref name=innocenceproject>{{cite web | url=http://www.innocenceproject.org/cases-false-imprisonment/steven-avery | title= Steven Avery |website=[[The Innocence Project]] | access-date=December 20, 2015}}</ref>
Avery's 2003 exoneration prompted widespread discussion of Wisconsin's criminal justice system; the Criminal Justice Reform Bill, enacted into law in 2005, implemented reforms aimed at preventing future wrongful convictions. Following his release, Avery filed a $36 million lawsuit against Manitowoc County, its former [[Sheriffs in the United States|sheriff]], and its former [[district attorney]] for wrongful conviction and imprisonment. In November 2005, with his [[civil suit]] still pending, he was arrested for the murder of Wisconsin photographer Teresa Halbach, and in 2007 was convicted and sentenced to [[life imprisonment]] without possibility of [[parole]]. The conviction was upheld by higher courts.<ref name=cnn>{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/12/entertainment/steven-avery-appeal-feat/ | title=Steven Avery, subject of 'Making a Murderer' documentary, files appeals | first=Emanuella |last=Grinberg | work=[[CNN]] | date=January 13, 2016 | access-date=January 14, 2016}}</ref>
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