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Jeffrey Mark Deskovic
Jeffrey Mark Deskovic (born October 27, 1973) is an American attorney from Peekskill, New York known for freeing the wrongly convicted. In 1990, at the age of 17, he was convicted of raping, beating, and strangling his Peekskill High School classmate, Angela Correa, who was 15 at the time of the murder.
During a months-long investigation, which included extensive interrogations, he made a false confession that was immediately withdrawn, but became the basis for his conviction. He served 16 years, some in an adult "super max" as a minor, while maintaining his innocence. He requested post-conviction DNA testing, but the DA's office, then headed by Jeanine Pirro, refused to accept his lay request.
In 2006, with support by the Innocence Project, crime scene DNA testing led to Steven Cunningham, who was serving time for subsequent murder committed in the same fashion. Cunningham confessed to having committed the murder.
In 2014 a jury found in favor of Deskovic and awarded him $41.6 million in a federal civil suit against the county for wrongful imprisonment. Due to his pretrial settlement with the county, he was limited to receive $10 million, which he used to establish his foundation.
Jeffrey Deskovic was born in 1973 in North Tarrytown, in Westchester County. He attended public schools, including Peekskill High School. He was not popular at school.
On November 15, 1989 in Peekskill, New York, Correa disappeared after going out with a portable cassette player and a camera for a project for her photography class. Two days later her body was found, and police determined she had been raped and strangled. Deskovic was among the many students who attended her funeral; he was so distraught that he cried openly during the service.
The police thought Deskovic was showing suspicious behavior as a result of him being upset and took him into custody as a potential suspect. They interrogated him at length. Deskovic later said that, under coercion, he made a false confession, fabricating an account based on crime scene information fed to him by police officers during their leading questions in the course of the interrogation. Deskovic also said: "By the police officer's own testimony, by the end of the interrogation I was on the floor crying uncontrollably in what they described as a fetal position".
Although DNA testing at the time excluded Deskovic from the forensic DNA found in Correa's body, a jury convicted Deskovic on December 7, 1990.
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Jeffrey Mark Deskovic
Jeffrey Mark Deskovic (born October 27, 1973) is an American attorney from Peekskill, New York known for freeing the wrongly convicted. In 1990, at the age of 17, he was convicted of raping, beating, and strangling his Peekskill High School classmate, Angela Correa, who was 15 at the time of the murder.
During a months-long investigation, which included extensive interrogations, he made a false confession that was immediately withdrawn, but became the basis for his conviction. He served 16 years, some in an adult "super max" as a minor, while maintaining his innocence. He requested post-conviction DNA testing, but the DA's office, then headed by Jeanine Pirro, refused to accept his lay request.
In 2006, with support by the Innocence Project, crime scene DNA testing led to Steven Cunningham, who was serving time for subsequent murder committed in the same fashion. Cunningham confessed to having committed the murder.
In 2014 a jury found in favor of Deskovic and awarded him $41.6 million in a federal civil suit against the county for wrongful imprisonment. Due to his pretrial settlement with the county, he was limited to receive $10 million, which he used to establish his foundation.
Jeffrey Deskovic was born in 1973 in North Tarrytown, in Westchester County. He attended public schools, including Peekskill High School. He was not popular at school.
On November 15, 1989 in Peekskill, New York, Correa disappeared after going out with a portable cassette player and a camera for a project for her photography class. Two days later her body was found, and police determined she had been raped and strangled. Deskovic was among the many students who attended her funeral; he was so distraught that he cried openly during the service.
The police thought Deskovic was showing suspicious behavior as a result of him being upset and took him into custody as a potential suspect. They interrogated him at length. Deskovic later said that, under coercion, he made a false confession, fabricating an account based on crime scene information fed to him by police officers during their leading questions in the course of the interrogation. Deskovic also said: "By the police officer's own testimony, by the end of the interrogation I was on the floor crying uncontrollably in what they described as a fetal position".
Although DNA testing at the time excluded Deskovic from the forensic DNA found in Correa's body, a jury convicted Deskovic on December 7, 1990.