What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Illinois
I was hoping that you can give some advice or help me find additional resources. My husband was a therapist at a chiropractic clinic and a 17 year old female patient accused him of impoperly touching her. After his boss made him take a leave of absence, my husband became very depressed and started drinking and doing marijuana. We convinced him to check into the hospital and a psychologist put him on an antipsych med for a research grant. When he was released and on the med two police had come to the house and questioned him by himself. He was told (after an hour) by the police that if he wrote a confession letter and a letter to the patient that he was sorry, then the patient would not press charges. I looked at "the Innocence Project" that you had recommended on another post. What caught my interest was the section of why innocent people confess. My husband's lawyer had informed us the only reason the case escalated was due to the two letters. Long story short, he took a plea of attempted aggrevated criminal sexual abuse which he was told by the prosecuter and his lawyer that he would have 30 months of probation (which is complete), a felony for life but would only be a sex offender for 10 years. Now we find out this is for life. This case was dragged on for a year and a half, my husband developed Crohn's disease during this process and became very ill and felt he would be unable to drag out the case any longer. The mother of the patient then sued us and the chiropractic clinic. My husband and I feel that the way this case was handled was very unjust. We are now trying to find out if there is anything we can do from this point or is it to late. Reading "The Innocence Project" I have hope that their are people who care about injustice. However, is there any help since he was not sent to prison. Thank you for listening and all of your help.
I was hoping that you can give some advice or help me find additional resources. My husband was a therapist at a chiropractic clinic and a 17 year old female patient accused him of impoperly touching her. After his boss made him take a leave of absence, my husband became very depressed and started drinking and doing marijuana. We convinced him to check into the hospital and a psychologist put him on an antipsych med for a research grant. When he was released and on the med two police had come to the house and questioned him by himself. He was told (after an hour) by the police that if he wrote a confession letter and a letter to the patient that he was sorry, then the patient would not press charges. I looked at "the Innocence Project" that you had recommended on another post. What caught my interest was the section of why innocent people confess. My husband's lawyer had informed us the only reason the case escalated was due to the two letters. Long story short, he took a plea of attempted aggrevated criminal sexual abuse which he was told by the prosecuter and his lawyer that he would have 30 months of probation (which is complete), a felony for life but would only be a sex offender for 10 years. Now we find out this is for life. This case was dragged on for a year and a half, my husband developed Crohn's disease during this process and became very ill and felt he would be unable to drag out the case any longer. The mother of the patient then sued us and the chiropractic clinic. My husband and I feel that the way this case was handled was very unjust. We are now trying to find out if there is anything we can do from this point or is it to late. Reading "The Innocence Project" I have hope that their are people who care about injustice. However, is there any help since he was not sent to prison. Thank you for listening and all of your help.