Ultimately, he convicted you, what did that feel like in that moment, knowing that you did not commit this crime? knows a nightmare you know, i was like my my worst fear come true i couldn t believe it at first initially because i just couldn t i didn t understand like, how could you bring someone in here and hold them accountable and you don t have any proof that this person is responsible for this and it was just was a nightmare at the time i had two infant children and it s like i m seeing that i m being stripped away from them. i was there sole provider at the time and it was just it was off out and like i couldn t understand like how they reached this verdict when there was like nothing there that actually pointed to me and then i was so much proof that i was not there and that evidence never entered in. frank, how old were they when they when you left? one and two oh my god i
We ve assembled them for you. just come meet with them the attorney didn t do that. and the attorney had an investigator who didn t show up to meetings and it s really crazy because the attorney listed on the witness list, these people. so we knew about the witnesses. he knew about the truth, but he just didn t present it because he didn t take the time to invest instigated to do a defense. and so because that investigation wasn t done, the courts found that this was ineffective assistance of counsel, and so that s why evidence of innocence that was readily available was not presented i mean, this so everyone understands, frank, this revelation and the road to determining that you had ineffective assistance of counsel. we re not talking months. we re not talking before you went to prison, talking longer than a decade years and years and years where you fought to try to prove it in a sense, even becoming your
Explain to them and show them and they ll sometimes they see it, sometimes they don t, you know, but what they see is the actual separation. you re gone, you re not here you know, and that has an effect i understand that frank s family and employer, there were people around who were willing to testify on his behalf. why didn t they end up doing that? and that s, exactly the question that we always had, is why wouldn t the defense attorney go talk to those people and i worked on cases like this alleging what we call in the law, ineffective assistance of counsel and it s a very high standard. it s beyond malpractice for a court to find in this case, there is some of the strongest evidence i ve ever seen, which is the family member got all the witnesses together told them the attorney that, hey, we got all the witnesses the people who know that frank was at work when this was allegedly are going down. they are here.
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