A confused teenager, coerced confession and 16 years in prison

Jeffrey Deskovic was a teenager when authorities railroaded him into confessing to the rape and murder of a Peekskill High School classmate. How was he convicted despite DNA proving otherwise? What convinced the jury’s lone holdout to cave? A new documentary sheds light on why Deskovic spent 16 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

Here’s my article in River Journal:

Published by Robert Brum

Writer/editor/storyteller, bicyclist and hiker roaming the Hudson Valley on two feet and two wheels. Brum as in drum; not Blum or Broom.

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