| First Name | William |
| Last Name | Avery |
| Year of Conviction | 2005 |
| Year of Exoneration | 2003 |
| Testing inculpated culprit | Non-Cold Hit |
| State of Conviction | Wisconsin |
| Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea | Trial |
| Type of Crime | Murder |
| Death Sentence | No |
| Gender of Exoneree | Male |
| Race of exoneree | White |
| Juvenile | No |
| Types of evidence at trial |
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| Were non-public facts alleged? | Yes |
| Examples of Non-Public or Corroborated Facts and Inconsistencies | None: no details. He stated: “I am responsible. I just don’t remember how.” ● Avery testified that he "didn’t hurt that woman and I don’t know who had hurt that woman." And they were "trying to ask me give him some details to that murder; where that woman’s clothes was…" |
| Quotes from prosecution arguments | “He then tells the detectives that he knows he’s responsible for [the victim’s] death, and refuses or doesn’t say anything more to the police.” |
| Interrogation Recorded | Written and signed confession statement |
| Jailhouse informant, Co-defendant, Incentivized Witness | J |
| Highest level reached | NR |