The Case
Everything that happened — and everything that was wrong with it — in one place: the coverage, and the evidence examined piece by piece.
In 1983 I came home to find my mother dying. Within minutes, the people who should have found her killer decided the killer was me. What followed — the mishandled and misrepresented evidence, the jailhouse informant, the dozens of documented police lies and distortions — took twenty-six years to undo. This section lays it all out: how the case was covered as it unfolded, and a detailed analysis of the evidence itself.
- 1983 My mother, Dorka Lisker, is murdered in our family home. I am 17.
- 1985 I am convicted of her murder on deeply flawed evidence and sentenced to 16-to-life.
- 2005 A Los Angeles Times investigation exposes the holes in the case against me.
- 2009 A federal court overturns the conviction. After 26 years, I walk free.
- 2016 Los Angeles settles my wrongful-conviction lawsuit.