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 CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - After serving 13 years in prison for sexually abusing children, a Long Island man whose family became the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary may have a chance at exoneration.
A federal judge ordered a hearing to determine if prosecutors wrongfully withheld evidence that police hypnotized at least one of the children who accused Jesse Friedman, the youngest member of the Great Neck, N.Y., family featured in "Capturing the Friedmans," newspapers reported Tuesday.
"I spent 13 years sitting in prison, realizing I never got a fair day in court," said Friedman, 38, who was paroled in 2001, in Tuesday editions of Newsday. "Now, I'm going to get a fair hearing. I never really had that opportunity before."
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