Justice on Trial Season 1 Episode 4 Sixteen to Life: Part 2 (Deskovic v. Putnam County)

In part 2 of the story of Jeffrey Deskovic, after being exonerated of assault and murder following 16 years in prison, he fights back with a civil suit. Judge Judy Sheindlin and her expert legal team recreate this trial to examine the limits of police and prosecutor liability in wrongful conviction cases. Once Deskovic was exonerated by the Innocence Project, who proved the DNA taken from the victim matched a convicted killer, he sues for damages, namely against the administrator of the fake polygraph test that caused him to falsely confess. Next, the prosecutor who convicted Deskovic after knowing his DNA wasn