Post by Mielikki (Admin) on Jul 21, 2015 22:19:44 GMT
Wikipedia excerpt:
In August 2010, a federal appeals court upheld the conviction of Jesse Friedman on technical legal grounds,[15] but took the unusual step of urging prosecutors to reopen Friedman’s case, saying that there was a “reasonable likelihood that Jesse Friedman was wrongfully convicted”.[16] The decision cited "overzealousness" by law enforcement officials swept up in the hysteria over child molestation in the 1980s.
Following the appeals court ruling, the Nassau District Attorney's office began a three-year investigation led by District Attorney Kathleen M. Rice. On June 24, 2013, the report was released. In a 155-page report written with very little ambiguity, the report concluded that none of four issues raised in a strongly-worded 2010 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was substantiated by the evidence. Instead, it concluded, "By any impartial analysis, the reinvestigation process prompted by Jesse Friedman, his advocates and the Second Circuit, has only increased confidence in the integrity of Jesse Friedman’s guilty plea and adjudication as a sex offender." Jesse Friedman was regarded as a "narcissist" and a "psychopath" by a psychiatrist his attorney hired to conduct an evaluation.[17] Judge Boklan had been subject to "selectively edited and misleading film portrayals in Capturing the Friedmans". A four-member independent advisory panel guided and oversaw the work. It included Barry Scheck, a founder of the Innocence Project and one of the country’s leading advocates for overturning wrongful convictions and a member of OJ Simpson's defense team.[18] However, Scheck has subsequently complained that key documents were not available to the panel, and urged the matter be reopened.[19]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capturing_the_Friedmans#Subsequent_legal_developments)
Here is the 2013 review by the Nassau County District Attorney's office that found Friedman was indeed guilty:
(http://archive.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/DA/NewsReleases/2013/documents/Conviction-Integrity-Review-People-v-Jesse-Friedman-FINAL.pdf)
The review was conducted by an independent advisory panel consisting of members of the innocence project looked at all the evidence in the case and wrote a report of their findings.
Here is a summary of these findings:
(http://archive.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/DA/NewsReleases/2013/062413friedman.html)
More Info:
"The exhaustive report also took aim at the makers of "Capturing the Friedmans," director Andrew Jarecki and producer Marc Smerling. It accused them of using misleading, out-of-context snippets of interviews to further their campaign to exonerate Friedman, 44.
"'Capturing the Friedmans' was a provocative and entertaining movie, but it was not an exhaustive account of the entire case against Jesse Friedman. The Review Team had to go behind the excerpts and sound bites that the producers used in the film and other 'reels' and exhibits the producers have produced over the course of this re-investigation," the report said.
They "were not forthcoming with evidence under their control. Though both told witnesses and the public that they possessed swaths of evidence capable of 'proving' Jesse Friedman's innocence, this material was not shared with the review team or the advisory panel until 2012.
"Even then, the information that they chose to share was partial" and unconvincing, as were the "recantations" of victims they'd offered up, the report said.
One said he was "tricked" into the statement by Jarecki's "manipulative" questioning, the report said.
The director also suppressed a statement from Friedman's uncle - who'd said in the movie that he thought Jesse was innocent - that his nephew was indeed a molester and "cannot tell right from wrong," the report said."
(http://nydailynews.com/new-york/jesse-friedman-100-guilty-child-abuse-article-1.1380786)
Here's the full documentary "Capturing the Friedmans" if you wanna watch it:
youtube.com/watch?v=UaatTnsx9-s
In August 2010, a federal appeals court upheld the conviction of Jesse Friedman on technical legal grounds,[15] but took the unusual step of urging prosecutors to reopen Friedman’s case, saying that there was a “reasonable likelihood that Jesse Friedman was wrongfully convicted”.[16] The decision cited "overzealousness" by law enforcement officials swept up in the hysteria over child molestation in the 1980s.
Following the appeals court ruling, the Nassau District Attorney's office began a three-year investigation led by District Attorney Kathleen M. Rice. On June 24, 2013, the report was released. In a 155-page report written with very little ambiguity, the report concluded that none of four issues raised in a strongly-worded 2010 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was substantiated by the evidence. Instead, it concluded, "By any impartial analysis, the reinvestigation process prompted by Jesse Friedman, his advocates and the Second Circuit, has only increased confidence in the integrity of Jesse Friedman’s guilty plea and adjudication as a sex offender." Jesse Friedman was regarded as a "narcissist" and a "psychopath" by a psychiatrist his attorney hired to conduct an evaluation.[17] Judge Boklan had been subject to "selectively edited and misleading film portrayals in Capturing the Friedmans". A four-member independent advisory panel guided and oversaw the work. It included Barry Scheck, a founder of the Innocence Project and one of the country’s leading advocates for overturning wrongful convictions and a member of OJ Simpson's defense team.[18] However, Scheck has subsequently complained that key documents were not available to the panel, and urged the matter be reopened.[19]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capturing_the_Friedmans#Subsequent_legal_developments)
Here is the 2013 review by the Nassau County District Attorney's office that found Friedman was indeed guilty:
(http://archive.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/DA/NewsReleases/2013/documents/Conviction-Integrity-Review-People-v-Jesse-Friedman-FINAL.pdf)
The review was conducted by an independent advisory panel consisting of members of the innocence project looked at all the evidence in the case and wrote a report of their findings.
Here is a summary of these findings:
(http://archive.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/DA/NewsReleases/2013/062413friedman.html)
More Info:
"The exhaustive report also took aim at the makers of "Capturing the Friedmans," director Andrew Jarecki and producer Marc Smerling. It accused them of using misleading, out-of-context snippets of interviews to further their campaign to exonerate Friedman, 44.
"'Capturing the Friedmans' was a provocative and entertaining movie, but it was not an exhaustive account of the entire case against Jesse Friedman. The Review Team had to go behind the excerpts and sound bites that the producers used in the film and other 'reels' and exhibits the producers have produced over the course of this re-investigation," the report said.
They "were not forthcoming with evidence under their control. Though both told witnesses and the public that they possessed swaths of evidence capable of 'proving' Jesse Friedman's innocence, this material was not shared with the review team or the advisory panel until 2012.
"Even then, the information that they chose to share was partial" and unconvincing, as were the "recantations" of victims they'd offered up, the report said.
One said he was "tricked" into the statement by Jarecki's "manipulative" questioning, the report said.
The director also suppressed a statement from Friedman's uncle - who'd said in the movie that he thought Jesse was innocent - that his nephew was indeed a molester and "cannot tell right from wrong," the report said."
(http://nydailynews.com/new-york/jesse-friedman-100-guilty-child-abuse-article-1.1380786)
Here's the full documentary "Capturing the Friedmans" if you wanna watch it:
youtube.com/watch?v=UaatTnsx9-s