Credit: Howard Schnapp

Jesse Friedman appeals to obtain complete criminal case files

Friedman pled guilty to numerous false charges of sexually abusing computer students in Great Neck, NY, 1988, at the height of the satanic ritual abuse panic. With the support of filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, and the NCRJ, Friedman and his lawyers have been trying to get the state to expose all the facts, which they believe include exculpatory evidence.

The appeal filed Monday “claims [the district attorney’s] true goal in withholding records is not to protect witnesses — whose identities Friedman knows — but to ‘continue to avoid scrutiny of her office’s and her predecessor’s extraordinary misconduct,'”