convictions just a single thread that runs through almost all of the wrongful conviction cases jeff deskovic as a master's in criminal justice specializing in wrongful convictions he's also a survivor of prosecutorial misconduct i spent 16 years in prison wrongfully convicted at 17. emerged at 32 jeff eventually won a lawsuit against putnam county new york prison. which enabled him to start his own foundation the founder and executive director of the jeff it just did it around issue but just as there's no deterrent there's no oversight is no punishment for prosecutors so they can break the law they don't face criminal penalties even when they engage in withholding evidence of innocence threatening witnesses coercing witnesses no matter how serious the misconduct as if the prosecutor commits that after an arrest has been made they have what's called prosecutorial immunity they're above the law the prosecutors to really uphold what's become just words

other than business father nobody had connected my client to the murder of other inmates like jeff deskovic another wrongfully convicted man trying to prove his innocence. i remember reading about. in the magazine just the same night they all out people who allege they've been wrongfully convicted of a plausible story to write about the hope that more public attention will come when i read about bruce's case it was reaffirming to me that i was on the right path because even though he hadn't been exonerated he was still looking for help he had given up you can't give up no matter how long it takes. and it could take a long time one of the biggest factors in why the us has the largest prison population in the world is the length of our prison sentences. that average sentence for burglary in canada and in england is around 6 months in the us it's around a year and a half. in other developed countries