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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 06, 2006 12:46pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| News Date | Friday, October 6, 2006 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Mistakes in the Jeffrey Deskovic case continue to compound misery in retrospect: While the youth was in prison more than a dozen years ago, wrongly convicted in the slaying of Peekskill high classmate Angela Correa, the admitted real assailant was busy killing someone else. That reality, made plain by staff writer Jonathan Bandler's enterprising reporting yesterday and today, adds new impetus for an investigation into what went wrong in the Deskovic case.
"That would mean if they (police and prosecutors involved in his conviction) did their jobs and got him when they should have, someone might have been saved," said Deskovic, 32. He was convicted in 1990, on the strength of a false confession and in spite of DNA evidence that pointed elsewhere. He was cleared two weeks ago, after Innocence Project lawyers prevailed upon DiFiore to conduct new DNA testing; that led to a DNA "hit" on an imprisoned suspect, who allegedly confessed to the Correa killing when authorities confronted him with the new DNA evidence. |
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