Wrongful Conviction

In October 2013, my husband was arrested in North Carolina accused of terrible crimes in New York.  He was held in North Carolina for 3 months then extradited to New York to face his charges. 

Since no one ever expects this to happen to them we did not have 50,000 sitting aside for a high power attorney to represent him so we were faced with the only option of a court appointed attorney.   Having faith that once his trial came and went the jury would find him innocent, given there was no evidence and stories kept changing, we believed a court appointed attorney would be sufficient. 

We did not know that the court appointed attorney would prepare no defense for my husband we did not realize the DA was withholding evidence that could have set him free long before the trial and we did not know that my husband’s right to due process would not be given to him. 

Once certain things came to light right before the trial such as the evidence the DA had and his lawyers insufficient representation the judge ignored all of it and allowed the trial to go on.  The jury was confused about a lot of the testimony and complaining about it taking to long. 

Still, we kept our positive way of thinking because the stories were all over the place and kept changing and there was no proof and what we heard an witnessed in that courtroom was so crazy we though no one in their right mind would be able to believe this. 

To our shock and horror, the jury came back guilty.  Two weeks later, my husband was sentenced to 19 years in a maximum-security prison.  We got married in 2013 and have not been able to spend one anniversary together, his first grandchild was born and he was not able to be there for that, we lost our home and our business. 

We are appealing and do not want to take the risk of using another court appointed attorney and were told it would be a terrible idea to use a court appointed attorney.  We are asking for help to pay a reasonable lawyer willing to work with us to represent my husband during his appeal.  We are confident with all that was allowed and all that was ignored by the judge that proved my husband innocent we can win this appeal.

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