Seven months prior Jimmy, his wife and four-year-old step-daughter moved from a small community in Kentucky to Dallas, Texas where he hoped to attend school. Shortly after arriving in Dallas the couple began having martial problems. There were arguments and heated words but never any physical abuse or violence. Soon they separated and made plans for a divorce.

Upon being arrested Jimmy learned his twenty-two-year-old wife had been shot to death outside her apartment, just four miles from where they once lived together. The four-year-old girl was asleep inside the apartment when her mother was killed.

Jimmy found himself inside a small jail cell partially naked, he remained there for four days all the while being denied access to the telephone and contact of any kind with his parents, friends or lawyer .

Trial records show in eighteen instances Jimmy was beaten by police while being interrogated. Often he was handcuffed in a chair when these beatings took place. His head was beaten against a steel file cabinet and table. The police screamed gruesome stories at him of how his wife died while accusing him of being the murderer.

Finally in order to stop the beatings and to gain access to a telephone so he could call his parents in Kentucky, Jimmy signed a statement prepared by the police. The statement was utterly false.

On appeal, the Dallas Court threw out the confession and held it inadmissible because of the police abuse. But they "rubber stamped" the conviction on the basis of the divorce and forty-two days prior to the murder the couple was seen arguing.

Despite overwhelming proof that someone other than Jimmy committed the crime, fifteen years later he remains incarcerated for the murder. He lost his home, family, career and has suffered humilation in the worse possible way.

Jimmy is an average, everyday sort of guy, but his story is representative of the unfolding tragedy occurring at an alarming rate all across America. No one is immune.

Jimmy needs your help having his story posted more places on the Internet. He needs help getting the attention of the media (newspapers, television, writers), judges, lawyers, legislatures and Congressman who can make changes in the law to protect the innocent. He needs your sincere effort to help free him from a life sentence in prison for a crime he did not commit.