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Steven Avery & Brendan Dassey— Case Archive
locationlocationManitowoc County Clerk of Court's OfficecourthouseManitowoc County Clerk of Court's OfficeThe Manitowoc County Clerk of Court’s Office kept Avery’s 1985 case file in a box in its inner office. James Lenk testified that Mike Shallue retrieved hair and fingernail cuttings from the office in 2002, while a tube of Avery’s blood from the office was later submitted for testing alongside RAV4 blood samples.
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The Manitowoc County Clerk of Court’s Office kept Avery’s 1985 case file in a box in its inner office. James Lenk testified that Mike Shallue retrieved hair and fingernail cuttings from the office in 2002, while a tube of Avery’s blood from the office was later submitted for testing alongside RAV4 blood samples.

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The office held the earlier case file and blood vial at the center of Avery’s defense theory that blood was taken from the vial and planted in Halbach’s RAV4, a theory the State disputed.

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