Daniel Larson's an Innocent Man, Says Federal Judge: So Why is He Still in Prison?

My fiance and I got engaged and in two months he was gone from me. He worked in the movie industry as a medic and a fireman, not a traffic ticket in 12 years, no priors. He paid taxes, we bought a beautiful home to house his children and start our life. He was offered a job from a man at the movie studios who was in the security department, over the course of two years he was convinced this man was legitimate but in reality he was conning everyone. He took our gold our assets our motorhome and money. After he was done with my fiance, (of which thought he was in training for his new job and part of a team for bodyguards) he was sitting in the sherriffs training facility playing  solitaire on his pda and got arrested. He was not allowed to participate in meetings as he was in training and was always left to sit outside and wait for this man. In reality, this bad man was conning his own family members into thinking he was doing a service for them and accepting money for it.  Skipping to the trial now, the judge refused my fiances tax returns, financials, witnesses and any documentation to show he was a credible person who was conned. The judge was reckless in trial, sided with the prosecution and acted as a prosecutor (10 pages of questioning from the judge) however, due to the legacy of his mother who served as a judge in the same courthouse for 55 years he is unstoppable. He has the power to do whatever he wants and he did.Two months into our engagement he was put in prison after a rushed two week trial, the jurors did not deliberate,

it was the Friday before Easter  jurors wanted to go home it was the friday before Easter, they went home to their families my life was torn apart. It was election time and the judge had a 99% conviction rate! How can every case be guilty???? Well, if the judge acts as a prosecutor, manipulates the jury, allows the DA to use high powered electronic equipment and not the defense side, eliminating the facts, its so easy to get the outcome you want.

Sitting in the lobby that day waiting for this guy bought us the loss of two properties, our retirements and our lives together with his children because the judge cut out the important facts and allowed the bad man to take a plea deal and not appear in court. The judge handed my fiance 10 years! 5 burglary counts, conspiracy and a badge charge. Where was the burglery committed? My fiance never saw a dime of this money, he never committed a crime, he was not that type of man. Why would he jeopardize a $130,000 job for a $35,000 crime, he wouldn't.This is another perfect example of our state incarcerating a person over a small crime for 10 years at the cost of $50-72,000 a year how much does this cost the state to house this man? Leaving the families to struggle and go to the state once again for support rather than being able to work and provide for his children. We have been financially devistated to the point of no return over $35,000 because a judge made the ruling? Who is holding the people responsible for this uneccessary incarceration? No one, thye can do whatever they want because they can. Now the laws of appeals and getting things corrected are so hard to overturn and the cost to the families is so high we can't afford to straighten out the mess once it's put in writing whether its factual or not. I have spent countless thousands to help him, I work everyday to  try to survive without his financial support, he never committed a crime other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's been four years of brutal financial drought for me, our family torn to shreds all because a judge said so. I know what this experience of wrongful incarceration is like, I am grateful for the people of the Innocense project who realize things do happen and sometimes they are not always correct. Thank you for helping this man, I can't my own man but I am thankful this man is being helped and will soon be home where he belongs with his family. This system needs to take these mistakes and review these cases and correct them if there is proof. We have proof too but years slip by becasue the system grinds you down to sand, what a waste of a good man who only wanted to provide for his family, his children and myself. The people on top need to open their eyes to what is truly going on, don't crimalize a person just because you can manipulate the jury to only hear what you want them to hear to convict an innocent person. It's time to grasp reality here!!!!!

This case is a good example of what is going on in our justice system right now. Innocent people are literally powerless to prove their innocense if the judge, DA, police department or others want a certain outcome on a case. California prisons are housing many people who truly should not be in prison. Beleive me, I am all for the bad guy being incarcerated but it needs to be fair and there needs to be actual evidence other than heresay to prove a case guilty. DNA is so amazing and I am grateful for it but what about those cases where someone points a finger at a suspect and claims something when in reality that is not truly what happened?

How is this poor guy still imprisoned, 2 years after a federal judge not only over-turned his conviction but declared him innocent!!? How are his "lawyers" not being sued for malpractice?  What is the deal with this Attorney General perpetuating a misscarriage of justice?  Outrageous. If one person's civil rights are taken away, the whole population is at risk.

Go gettem and don't stop until you mow them all down, Daniel!