Man imprisoned for 28 YEARS after woman dreamed that he raped her to be freed

[TorchTheWitch]

31. I'm curious as to why you think she wrongfully fingered him on purpose?

or that she had "fingered" him at all?

It was dark, she'd had too much to drink, she was having her face bashed in while being raped leaving her permanently blinded in one eye. Why do you imagine that she EVER could have gotten a good enough look at the perp going through all that? And when in her nightmares about the incident this innocent person's face appeared as the perp... she very well could have BELIEVED that was who it was. Acute trauma can do very fucked up things to peoples' minds.

What went wrong here was the police/DA's office. She TOLD people that one of three men could have been the perp. One of those three men she first named, Jackson, was questioned and TOLD investigators that the day of the attack he "had sex with her" and hit her. Then he later denied that. She did the right thing telling the police about who the man in her nightmares about the incident was. It wasn't HER fault if she believed that herself, or that she told the police that... it was the police/DA's office that ran with it, and wrongfully shaped the case around that while "losing" physical evidence, ignoring the fact that the innocent man convicted had a blood type that did NOT match that of the evidence (the DNA evidence wasn't part of the trial as there was no such thing at that time... it was introduced after the conviction, and a new trial was denied because the evidence was "lost&quot , and that the ACTUAL perp confessed to "having sex with her" and HITTING her THAT day.

The DA's office focused on the wrong man, even when the mostly likely one to have committed the crime was known. Imagining that it was her nightmare that was ALL of the evidence presented is ridiculous, and we don't know if she BELIEVED that she had fingered the right person or not, and I have no doubt that the police/DA's office did everything they possibly could to convince her that the man she saw in her nightmares was the perp, and of COURSE they would have put an expert on the stand swearing that what she recollected from her nightmares was what in FACT occurred.

This is hardly the first time a DA's office has gone after the "easier" suspect rather than the most likely one. It's par for the course, and once they get a conviction they AND judges are loath to admit they might have screwed up. They DON'T CARE if the wrong person goes to jail as long as SOMEONE does.

After what this poor woman went through, she's the LAST person to blame especially when the police had a FAR more likely suspect that admitted to having "had sex with her" and hit her THAT DAY and was also one of the three men she first named. Blame the system, blame the asshole that raped and beat her so badly, lied about it, and went on to rape again only having a "come to Jesus" moment 28 years later while in prison for having done it again and who knows how many more times in the intervening years. The poor innocent man that's taken the rap all these years isn't blaming her. Why are you?