MADISON â?? The director of the project that freed Steven Avery from prison in 2003 says Avery’s homicide conviction doesn’t affect his project’s charge.
A Manitowoc County jury found Avery guilty Sunday of killing Teresa Halbach in 2005, the culmination of a six-week trial. Avery becomes the first person in the United States exonerated by DNA evidence to be charged subsequently â?? and convicted â?? of homicide.
“(Avery’s conviction) doesn’t change the support of that mission,” Keith Findley, director of the Wisconsin Innocence project said Monday from his office at the University of Wisconsin Law School.