Category: Jesse Friedman

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The National Center for Reason and Justice’s response to DA Kathleen Rice’s self-serving report on Jesse Friedman. Also, read our executive summary.

“The American public is wholly ignorant about way too many things,” he began. “And one of them is this notion — it’s called the “Law and Order” Effect. Everybody thinks that the criminal justice system works the way “Law and Order” does. They think that truth and facts always are uncovered by hardworking determined people,… Continue reading Jesse Friedman: “Forget it? I can never forget it.”

The National Center for Reason and Justice has sponsored this case for years. http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-05-29/news/jesse-friedman/full/ “The police hurt so many people and traumatized the entire community,” he says. “A lot of times I sort of feel like I’m the last standing eyewitness to a horrible massacre. I’m the only one left to tell the tale, because… Continue reading The Village Voice on the Jesse Friedman Case

Jesse Friedman, who served 13 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, is now awaiting a decision that could overturn the conviction. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claudia-ricci/its-about-time-we-freed-t_b_3169746.html

“Now, Professor [and NCRJ Director Emily] Horowitz brings back [Jesse] Friedman and [Ron] Kuby to answer questions and show new evidence that contradicts the claims made in the original case on Tuesday, April 9 at 4 p.m. in Room 4202 of St. Francis College located at 180 Remsen St. in Brooklyn Heights. The event is… Continue reading St. Francis professor fights to overturn Friedman’s conviction

The NCRJ report indicates that the Friedman case contains the 10 hallmarks of false sex crime prosecution: “Police Misconduct; Absence of Physical Evidence; Absence of Medical Evidence; Outlandish or Impossible Scenarios; Prosecutorial Misconduct; Judicial Misconduct; Coercive Interviews by Police and Therapists; Improper Relationship Between Police and Therapists; Use of Now-Discredited Memory-Recovery Techniques and Hypnosis; Police… Continue reading Report On ‘Capturing The Friedmans’ Sex Abuse Case Urges DA To Overturn Jesse Friedman’s Conviction

But Jarecki isn’t concerned solely with the welfare of Friedman: “I’m equally concerned about the hundreds of people who were told by the police, falsely, that their children were attacked and falsely molested.” “That perverts your outlook on life,” he said. http://www.salon.com/2013/03/13/uncapturing_a_friedman/    

The NCRJ is pleased to announce the publication of a White Paper about the Friedman case. The NCRJ has sponsored Jesse Friedman’s case for over a decade, and this paper, by Gavin de Becker and NCRJ Director Emily Horowitz, summarizes the context of the child sex abuse moral panic and highlights important new evidence about… Continue reading NCRJ White Paper on the Jesse Friedman Case

Jesse Friedman, of “Capturing the Friedmans,” whose case NCRJ sponsors: Look at the new evidence. Sign the petition. http://www.justiceforjesse.com/