deskovic was starting to lose hope. my lowest day i learn that i lost my petition for avis corpus i seeking to have my conviction overturned in federal court i'm argue my innocence martin d.n.a. and the decision comes back that i've lost because the court clerk. rule that my paperwork arrived forty slate. and i get this news while i'm in the special housing unit i'm in the box because i defended myself against people who wanted to kill me because in their minds i was a rapist. my main reaction to that i wanted to commit suicide at that point. when inmates like deskovic run out of legal options often it's up to the local district attorneys to reinvestigate. without their consent cases can sit for years . finally in january two thousand and six when pirro left her job to run as new york's attorney general he caught a break. once the innocence project got involved they went to the new district attorney. and they asked for the testing she said yeah let's go ahead and test it that was in the summer of two thousand and six wi