True Story

Glenn Sunkett Jr. a.k.a Freedaddyrich is an innocent man wrongfully convicted of a crime in which trial evidence proves he did not commit. However, he was convicted of this crime largely in part due to a faulty, and erroneous cross-race eyewitness identification, in which the witnesses originally identified the perpetrator as a “very, very dark-skinned black man that looked like Barry Bonds”.

After this identification was given to the police, law enforcement conducted an unlawful identification process widely known to illicit false identifications in criminal cases and Mr. Sunkett was ultimately arrested for this crime.

At his trial, being the only African American person in the court room the eyewitnesses miraculously identified Mr. Sunkett in court as their perpetrator. Immediately, Mr. Sunkett requested to present to the court and jury a cross-race eyewitness identification expert in his defense against this evidence. Although there was no other substantial evidence corroborating his involvement in this crime, and as the eyewitness identifications was the heart of the prosecution’s case, the trial judge denied Mr. Sunkett’s Constitutional Right protected by the Sixth Amendment that affords a defendant the right to present expert testimony in his defense.

The judges decision literally barred Mr. Sunkett from presenting a defense against this flawed eyewitness identification evidence, and he was ultimately sentenced to 63 years in prison behind the courts abuse of discretion. Sadly, SO MUCH MORE happened in this case that practically gave Mr. Sunkett no chance at a fair trail.

Learn more about is story in “Sunkett Outline of Story” found in the Court Documents section of this website.

I Make Music For My Freedom

“I have been in the music business for over 25 years. I’ve been writing,producing and performing since I was 10. Being wrongfully convicted of a crime of which I did not commit, I learned the hard way that the criminal justice system has a knack for silencing the voices of individuals thrust into positions such as mine. After being repeatedly denied the necessary justice truly owed to me by this corrupt and racist system, I was driven to use my talents as a writer and musician to raise public awareness to my situation in hopes of gaining support from the community who could help me apply pressure on the appellate courts to finally do the right thing and fix the errors the trial court intentionally created, and they themselves perpetuated, and protect my Constitutional rights to due process, a fair trial, and to be free from cruel and unusual punishment in this country.”

Innocence Must Not Be Punished!!

#freedaddyrich

Science has long proven that eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions in the U.S.; having played the role in over 71% of cases overturned siince 1989. And note, Cross-racial identifications increase these percentages substantially! Yet courtrooms across the county unlawfully prohibit this science from being heard by juries at a defendant’s trial, resulting in scores of minorities being wrongfully accused and ultimately convicted of crimes that carry extraordinarily cruel and unusual prison sentences. This case is the epitome of an erroneous Cross-racial identification, that the trial court barred from being challenged by his defense team when they tried presenting expert witnesses that could have provided the science, facts, and case studies that demonstrate the high falibility and unreliability in this particular cross-race identification. This was a complete denial of a defense, being that the eyewitness identifying him by his quote in quote “standard Negroid features,” was the only evidence in this case. We must come together and fight for @freedaddyrich to be granted his Constitutional Rights to Due Process, a Fair Trial, and to be Free From Cruel and Unusual Punishment Now!