The Wisconsin Innocence Project of the University of Wisconsin Law School helped spring Steven Avery in 2003 after he served 18 years in prison for a rape that he says, and a court ruled, he didn't commit. Now the police are questioning Steven Avery about the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach, whose keys were found in Avery's bedroom and whose charred remains were found in the scrapyard owned by Avery's family. Wow.

Did the law, a la precognition in Minority Report, coincidentally catch up to Avery two decades before Halbach's murder? Could this be, as Avery's brother suggests, "a big setup" in revenge for Avery making the cops look bad? Given that in Avery's exoneration a third-party's pubic hair cancelled out a hair "consistent" with the victim found on Avery and fingernail scrapings genetically consistent with Avery found on the victim, might this be further affirmation of Adam Smith's aphorism: "mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent"? Shouldn't the Innocence Project get a new posterchild for their good work? Did Avery's time in jail for a crime he didn't commit ironically turn him into a man capable of such monstrosities? Might Steven Avery just have really, really bad luck? If Avery really is guilty of this murder, and innocent of the earlier rape, did the law students who helped free him do a good thing? Too many questions. Too many questions. This case makes my brain hurt.

If Avery was in fact Halbach's murderer, aren't the judge and jury that acquited him all liars? They misread evidence and asserted a claim that has turned out to be false.

Avery was convicted of a rape 20 years ago. Two years ago, a court overturned that conviction. Halbach is the victim in the recent murder that Avery is now being questioned in.

Blast. My mistake. Let me amend:

If Avery in fact committed rape in 1975, aren't the judge and jury that acquited him all liars? They misread evidence and asserted a claim that has turned out to be false.

Apparently, dna evidence cleared him of the 1975 deal. I drove by his junk yard today. The police still have it blocked off. They found blood evidence on her keys that he had in his room and the burned bones are hers. Also, there was evidence in her suv. From what I heard today, the innocence project has been in touch with him again, although, no comment. He may have been innocent in '75, but, I think they have him this time.

More typically, innocent people don't go to prison. If physical evidence is either missing or unable to be anaulyzed, other evidence must be overwhelmingly present for a prosecutor to win the case and have a jury convict.

So, even though it appears that he is being framed in this more recent case (wink wink, nudge nudge) the prudent person might consider that blood and physical evidence point this time to the absolute fact that this guy did it….again. You think?

It also could be argued that the Innocence Project emboldened and enabled this turd to murder again with impunity.