Catching up on our 1st year anniversary special with Jeffrey Deskovic.
Jeffrey Deskovic is a man who was wrongfully convicted for 16 years and founded The Deskovic Foundation after being freed.
Jeffrey is an American man from upstate New York known for having been wrongly convicted in 1990 at the age of seventeen of raping, beating, and strangling Angela Correa, a 15-year-old high school classmate at Peekskill High School. Authorities knew his DNA did not match that of the actual perpetrator – who, three years later, went on to murder another young woman and mother of two – but colluded to convict Jeffrey and keep him in prison for 16 years. After he was exonerated and release, Jeffrey successfully sued the authorities responsible and used a substantial portion of the compensation he was awarded to start The Deskovic Foundation.
After being exonerated, Jeffrey used the portion of the compensation he was awarded to start his own non-profit organization dedicated to the exoneration of the wrongfully accused, their recovery, and reform of the system that allows these miscarriages of justice to take place. Jeffrey has dedicated himself to helping the wrongfully accused, and recently graduated from the Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University with a law degree. The Foundation has freed seven people, and currently has eleven active cases in addition to proving peripheral assistance in other cases.
Jeffrey shared about:
- What he has done this past year.
- What plans does he has after being featured in our show.
- Great lessons he learned in life.