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initially attempted, he tried to trip up my friend on the stand. It was a miserable failure on his part. After both sides were finished and the jury was out, this attorney said he honestly didn't think my friend had done what he was accused of. When asked how he felt about going for the kill in his cross-examination of a defendant he didn't believe to be guilty, his response was, "Hey, I need a paycheck, too."

What does that tell you? Is that justice? My friend and his family certainly didn't think so. They were furious. They documented specific incidences of perjury by the accusers and the investigating detective. They outlined a case for prosecutorial misconduct. They cited chapter and verse of the state's legal code that had been violated by police officers, attorneys, the accusers and several family members of the accusers who had been complicit in the lies. There was a case for fraud against the accusers because it came out in the trial that they had applied for state crime victim funds to the tune of several thousand dollars. It was impressive.

My friend took his documentation to his lawyer's firm to talk to the civil attorneys to begin a civil suit and they blew all the wind out of his sails. They told him it would cost him $50,000-$100,000 to pursue it, and because of 'prosecutorial immunity', it would most likely get thrown out. They asked him if he knew why these women had concocted such a web of lies. He didn't. They said the accusers were relatively low income and living beyond their means. They saw my friend several times in his circle of friends, knew he was better off than they were, and looked for the opportunity. Their scheme was to get a criminal conviction, then follow up with a civil suit of their own to take him for everything he had. The important thing was that their plan had failed, but to go after them would only cost more money, and would achieve nothing more than leave the wounds open longer. Even if my friend won, they told him, he would gain nothing because these people didn't have anything.

My friend wasn't satisfied, so he contacted the corruption division of the city attorney's office. He thought at least he could easily prove the perjury on the part of the investigating detective. The false allegations gained teeth specifically due to his lie to a judge. What he was told was shocking and revealing. Their representative told him that everyday people are falsely accused of crimes. Some of them are lucky

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