Ten years ago I was pulled over by a cop for speeding. I was doing 39mph in a 45mph zone. I pointed this out to the cop who wrote me up as doing 69mph and when I refused to sign the ticket, my legal right, he yanked me out of the car and proceeded to systematically put me in the hospital. He lied to the back up that arrived and told them that I had attacked him and went for his gun. They all laughed at me and said I'm lucky I hadn't tried that with them because I'd be dead. I was charged with battery of a police officer, resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, fleeing and eluding and driving without a license plate (after they removed my license plate and disposed of it). I spent the next several weeks handcuffed to a bed in the hospital where I was arraigned. The jury found me guilty on all counts because the cops all testified that they witnessed me doing those things despite the fact that none arrived until after I was handcuffed bloody and beaten up in the back of a cruiser. The judge who refused to recuse himself had just the month before lost his brother who was a cop and had been shot to death by a suspect. He was out for blood and sentenced me to the maximum and made it all consecutive. I ended up being sentenced to forty one years with no credit for time served.

While in jail awaiting trial (they refused to grant bail due to the victims being cops) my wife filed for divorce and not only did I lose custody of my children but I was denied all future visitation and banned from having any contact. My parents and only sibling, my sister all died while I was in prison and I never got to visit any of them so I never saw any family ever again.

15 years into my case my sentence was commuted to time served. It turned out that I was sentenced outside of the normal guidelines and so I was illegally sentenced. I should have been sentenced concurrently since they all came from the same incident. So I should have been sentenced to the ten years and eligible for parole after five. But the new judge didn't want me to sue them for serving ten more than I was sentenced to so I was commuted to time served which meant that was actually my new total sentence. I was released the next day.

I hired an attorney to look into seeing what I could do. Turns out not much.

So as an ex con it's really hard to get a job. So I did what I could. I struggled for a few years. As fate will have it, my luck turned around. All it cost me was a dollar. I won fifty million dollars playing the lottery. After paying taxes and taking the lump sum I ended up with about 14 million dollars.

My kids had all grown by then. I had no idea where they were. They had moved away and could not be located in the town we had lived in. My ex wife who didn't stand by me could go fuck herself for all I cared. But with my new money I hired a private investigator and learned that my oldest was a sheriffs deputy a thousand miles away in Texas. My middle child was a nurse in Chicago and my youngest was in college studying law. I wrote them all but they declined to respond. This fueled my anger all the more. I wasn't mad at them. They must have spent their whole lives thinking their dad was some sort of a bad criminal and didn't want anything to do with such a person. The problem is that I'm not the person they think I am.

So my private investigators tracked down all the cops involved in my case. It turns out that a lot of the "criminals" they put away experienced similar circumstances. They had connections to that judge whose brother was a cop and was killed so every time one of their cases came up they got it steered to that judge. That is illegal.

My investigators found 127 cases like mine where the defendants had all been arrested by one of these cops, claimed innocence and the cops all arrived after the facts and claimed to be witnesses. We 128 minus seven who died in prison pooled our resources. I was by far the one with the most resources but after taking our case to a sympathetic law firm we found we had a very good case or rather cases. It took a few years but we got our revenge. We were offered a settlement by the state and each of us got a quarter million dollars for each year we did time. My cut was 3.75 million added to the money I already had put me in a very good financial position. The state also agreed to pay court costs and attorney fees.

As for those cops. They all lost their jobs. Every single one of their cases was reviewed and every case where there was nobody but one of those specific cops as witness, without any thing to back up their claims, all those cases were dismissed. They defendants all got compensation and freedom. But best of all, the cops in question all got life sentences with ZERO chance of parole. Their families have for the most part abandoned them and one was found dead in his cell of an apparent "suicide."