In the late 80s and early 90s, Stefan Morant and his best friend Scott Lewis were dealing

drugs for local New Haven drug kingpin Frank Parisi, who was going away on a weapons

charge. When Parisi asked Scott to take a large role in his business, Scott refused a decision

that would alter the course of his and Stefan's lives forever. On October 11, 1990, former

New Haven Connecticut Alderman, Ricardo Turner and his lover, Lamont Fields, were shot and

killed while they lay in bed. Now, meet Detective Vincent Rausky, a detective involved in Parisi's

drug game who would pin this double homicide on Scott Lewis for Parisi. Rausky put pressure

on Stefan to extract the false confession that Stefan would recant the very next day. His

refusal to participate in Scott Lewis's wrongful conviction would seal him to the same fate.

So now we have a double homicide, politicians and law enforcement entangled in the drug game

of a local Mafioso kingpin Frank Parisi, but eventually, the FBI and a whole bunch of

Yale and Columbia law students under Professor Brett Dignum saved the day, bringing down the

entire house of cards and setting Stefan and Scott free after they had served over 20 years

in prison for crimes that they did not commit. This is wrongful conviction.

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