softheart
08-09-2003, 11:28 PM
Nicky asked me to post this for everyone who through everything have sent their Love, their prayers, and their thoughts.
He wants everyone to know how much it has all meant to him.
I also want to thank all of you for the support you have given Nicky and also me.
For the ones who don't know who Nicky is, he has been sitting on PA death row for 23 years for a crime he didn't commit. DNA results have proved he didn't commit the crime, but yet he is still sitting on Death Row.
softie
The past four months have given me, [finally], the DNA results that I fought my heart out for the past fifteen years. The killers gloves, then the sperm and finally the killers skin under the victims fingernails,[after she fought her killer], this all gave my family the shield that I carried for years as people tormented me for this case.
As I read the press, I see how easy it is for some to make me out to be worthless, not deserving of any consideration, because 20 years ago I was a junkie and a thief. It doesn't bother me. I became a good man in places they couldn't spend 8 days in, let alone the 8000 I have.
I got the DNA to speak for me, and I can rest now. No matter what they do to me, or how much longer my health holds out, I am at peace.
Everyone assumes I'm sitting here going crazy waiting to go free. But I'm not. I knew that the Delaware county Prosecutor would be vicious and try to cheapen the results.
They will do anything to hold on to this case. In April, I wrote the Prosecutor and asked them to contact the FBI and see if a DNA match could be made by them. The Prosecutor has refused, if they had any sincerity they would have done this.
The Craig family deserves it. For every day they refuse, the killer goes free.
On May 12th at the hearing in Philadelphia the Prosecutor committed perjury by lying to the judge and assuring his honor the gloves were never used or testified about before my jury in 1982, thus the results from the gloves didn't mean anything.
But June 28, 1982 testimony of Detective David Peifer proves otherwise. He testified before the jury that he found the gloves in the victims car, 12-15-81.
These people manufactured evidence, coerced witnesses, and put perjured testimony before a jury.
Careers were "made" on my case. Do you really think they are going to back down now?
After the sperm results, they offered a deal: If I pass a polygraph, they would agree to a dismissal. Well I passed their polygraph in 1982. Then, they learned of the fingernail results, and they are all-out fighting me.
They say DNA results alone do not prove innocence.
Well then any person they put in prison with DNA results has to be set free. You can't have it both ways.
Look I am no one, I don't pretend to be any shining example and I've made so many stupid choices in my life.
But I have paid for everything 3X over sitting in a cell 22,23,24 hours of everyday under conditions few could handle, and fewer still can grow within.
I am a good man, and no one can take this from me.
I want to Thank all of you for your time, your care and Love, as I tried as best I could to handle this with grace and dignity.
Be good to yourselves
Nicky
July 31, 2003
He wants everyone to know how much it has all meant to him.
I also want to thank all of you for the support you have given Nicky and also me.
For the ones who don't know who Nicky is, he has been sitting on PA death row for 23 years for a crime he didn't commit. DNA results have proved he didn't commit the crime, but yet he is still sitting on Death Row.
softie
The past four months have given me, [finally], the DNA results that I fought my heart out for the past fifteen years. The killers gloves, then the sperm and finally the killers skin under the victims fingernails,[after she fought her killer], this all gave my family the shield that I carried for years as people tormented me for this case.
As I read the press, I see how easy it is for some to make me out to be worthless, not deserving of any consideration, because 20 years ago I was a junkie and a thief. It doesn't bother me. I became a good man in places they couldn't spend 8 days in, let alone the 8000 I have.
I got the DNA to speak for me, and I can rest now. No matter what they do to me, or how much longer my health holds out, I am at peace.
Everyone assumes I'm sitting here going crazy waiting to go free. But I'm not. I knew that the Delaware county Prosecutor would be vicious and try to cheapen the results.
They will do anything to hold on to this case. In April, I wrote the Prosecutor and asked them to contact the FBI and see if a DNA match could be made by them. The Prosecutor has refused, if they had any sincerity they would have done this.
The Craig family deserves it. For every day they refuse, the killer goes free.
On May 12th at the hearing in Philadelphia the Prosecutor committed perjury by lying to the judge and assuring his honor the gloves were never used or testified about before my jury in 1982, thus the results from the gloves didn't mean anything.
But June 28, 1982 testimony of Detective David Peifer proves otherwise. He testified before the jury that he found the gloves in the victims car, 12-15-81.
These people manufactured evidence, coerced witnesses, and put perjured testimony before a jury.
Careers were "made" on my case. Do you really think they are going to back down now?
After the sperm results, they offered a deal: If I pass a polygraph, they would agree to a dismissal. Well I passed their polygraph in 1982. Then, they learned of the fingernail results, and they are all-out fighting me.
They say DNA results alone do not prove innocence.
Well then any person they put in prison with DNA results has to be set free. You can't have it both ways.
Look I am no one, I don't pretend to be any shining example and I've made so many stupid choices in my life.
But I have paid for everything 3X over sitting in a cell 22,23,24 hours of everyday under conditions few could handle, and fewer still can grow within.
I am a good man, and no one can take this from me.
I want to Thank all of you for your time, your care and Love, as I tried as best I could to handle this with grace and dignity.
Be good to yourselves
Nicky
July 31, 2003