I read "The Inocent Man" after my husband was falsely accused of rape. We lived in a town that is mostly native american and we are white. I refuse to use reverse discrimination because I don't believe that on;y whites can discriminate. Anyway, my husband was drinking with other adults when 3 minor girls, age 17 to 20, came by and were invited in my another adult. By the way, these girls admitted at trial they were looking for a party and are heavy drinkers. Much later most every one had left including 2 of the girls. The 20 year old girl was left who my husband had seen drinking in a bar earlier that year and thought she was over 21. Another adult was there also. Two boys came into the door wanting to party and my husband told them to leave, the party was over, and shut the door. The 2 boys came back with 1 of the girls and kicked the door in. The girl came in with a mop ringer and wacked my husband in the face and knocked him out. She continued to beat on him until the other adult pulled him into the bathroom and held the door closed as the girl and 2 boys denuted the door. They then ransacked the apartment and left. The next day, the state troopers show up to investigate an assault. Because of the racism and hatred of us, the trooper, wanting his ticket punched, got a theory in his mind of what must have happened and then coerst the girls and 2 boys into giving false statements. The trooper told 1 girl that the other girl said things that she did not to get the 1 girl to say what he wanted. He actually badgered the girl for 5 days!! She told him for 5 days that nothing happened to her sexually. He told her, on tape, that she would not get in trouble for anything and that since everybodies stories are different that they needed to come up with a story to put my husband away for a long time and he would be back in a few days to get it. Now all of a sudden she was raped. She was facing another Minor Consumining, Assault charges and burglery. After NO DNA effidence except my husbands blood all over the apartment and on the outside of the clothes of the girl who was beating, 16 months of lawyers, court hearings, trials, $200,000 in lawyer bills, 3rd party, not being able to see our families out of state, etc... my husband is serving 1 year in jail for 3 counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor even after the 3 girls even said on the stand that he never poured them a drink, they were sneaking them. The jury laughed at the sex assault charge. The girl even admitted on the stand that she lied. The worse part is that my husband is still judged on the charges he was exonerated of. It will never be off his record and it will always follow him for the rest of his life.
I used to believe that once your found innocent of a charge that it went away, but that sadly is not true. That book had so many similarities to my husbands case. I don't know how cops and prosecuters can even sleep at night for how horrible they treat people and ruin their's and their families lives.
