He's sentenced to death row ("I remember the judge telling the courtroom the number of volts of electricity they would put into my body"), he lives behind bars for 18 years for crimes he didn't commit, the prosecutors are found to have covered up the crucial evidence that would have exonerated him, he sues the prosecutors, he wins, and then in a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court rules against him.

"Because of that," he writes, "prosecutors are free to do the same thing to someone else today."

Here's the story from his point of view.