Deskovic endorses Schneiderman for AG, knocks Rice
The Westchester County man wrongfully convicted in 1990 for the rape and murder of a high school classmate today backed the attorney general candidacy of Eric Schneiderman.
Jeffrey Deskovic, who was sent to prison for 16 years after his wrongful conviction, was released in 2006 following an investigation by Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore. Deskovic has since become an advocate for the wrongfully convicted.
“We need an Attorney General who won’t just talk tough on crime, but will be accurate and fair about it as well,” Deskovic said in a statement. “To me, the most important aspect of his advocacy has been his tireless efforts to bring fairness and true justice to our criminal justice system. We all want a justice system that punishes the guilty, while exonerating the innocent. Eric’s election is therefore critical in both combating wrongful convictions and preserving public safety. There is no question that he is best suited for the job and most committed to justice.”
He also knocked one of Schneiderman’s opponents, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, and compared her to Jeanine Pirro, the former Westchester County DA who refused to reopen his case. Pirro, a Republican, ran for attorney general in 2006 and lost to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
“Like Pirro, when evidence appeared in a documentary movie that the conviction of Jesse Friedman by Rice’s predecessor was wrongful, she fought time and time again to avoid even reviewing the conviction because of technicalities such as filing deadlines,” he said. “The federal courts should not have needed to tell her that whenever there arises evidence of a wrongful conviction, a prosecutor has an ethical obligation to examine the evidence. But for years, as Nassau County DA, despite having the same access to the evidence, Kathleen Rice fought any effort to reopen his case. In many ways, my experience and Jesse Friedman’s are eerily similar.”
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who really cares what this nutter has to say. just b/c someone suffers from a wrongful conviction, does not make him or her all knowing. and if he is backing “Eric,” he just demonstrates that he knows jack about the AG’s office or “eric’s” real record as a hopelessly compromised politico.
I agree. This guy is a Schneiderman prop. Schneidie’s people likely wrote the piece for him.
this is a guy who owes his freedom to janet difiore who
unlike her predescessor agreed to re open the case.and
yet when it came time for her to run for re election
descovic who was writing for and presumably getting paid
by sam zherka owner of the guardian whose editor richard
blassberg was tony castro’s campaign guru, went after
difiore….he’s comtemptable and his endorsement is
meaningless…schniederman you may recall was in a car
that was involved in leaving the scene of an accident
he was being driven around to events and he failed
to do the most basic thing anyone with any decency at
all would do and that would be to leave his card..these
guys are all sanctimonious hypocrits
The curse of corrupt prosecutors and prosecutors who care nothing for Justice is undoubtedly the bane of our American legal system. Their victims are too numerous and, regardless of whether they’re proved corrupt, they’re never imprisoned like other criminals.