Jeff_Deskovic

I would tell them that they cost me 16 years of my life, which I will never get back. That it not only affected me but also my friends and family. Additionally, your misconduct caused another woman to lose her life 3 and a half years later because the actual killer was out free while I was doing time for his crime-- he killed again!

Removal of prosecutorial immunity. Although there are many causes of wrongful conviction, a common thread is that they are often paired with prosecutorial misconduct. The way the system is set up now, the exonerated are unable to sue the prosecutors, even for intentional misconduct.

Absolutely. The prosecutor should have dropped the case against me once the DNA test results did not match me. Instead, he solicited fraud on the part of the medical examiner in order to overcome the DNA evidence.

The victims family never said anything to me or about me after I was convicted. After I was exonerated, the victims mother and I had a tearful embrace. She felt really bad for me, fully accepting my innocence. At her invitation, I spent several weekends visiting them in their house.

Everybody accepted my innocence because the actual perpatrator was arrested and convicted, however I still face a stigma of having been in prison, albiet wrongfully. Is it "safe" to be alone with me someplace? How much of the ways of prison rubbed off on me? Also, my background hinders me when it comes to dating women: after all, who wants to go out with a guy who spent 16 years in prison! :(

No. I never felt like a criminal, I was always painfully aware that I didn't belong in there. Many prisoners that I knew had worked themselves into a mental place in which they recognized that they did this to themsevles. I could never get there, since I was innocent