Nearly two years after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit took the unusual step of urging a “complete review” of what it suggested could have been the wrongful conviction of an innocent man in a notorious case of mass child molestation, the defendant and his lawyer have become frustrated at what they say is the secretive way in which the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office is conducting the probe.
“We started this process excited, we were eager and certainly completely willing to participate fully in whatever the process was,” said Jesse Friedman, 43, who, after 13 years in prison is on parole and living out of state, where he operates an online bookstore. “But we’re definitely entering a bit of a twilight zone of not having any idea what’s going on,” he said in an interview.
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