Presumed Guilty
S1: Pilot “Who Am I”
S1: E2- “Crosshairs”
S1: E3- “Loyalty”
S1: E4- “Equalizer”
S1: E5- “Flying High”
S1: E6- “False Narrative”
A unique and interesting story-line that depicts the irony and struggles encountered by Joe Donnelly, a gung-ho, 25 year-old NYPD cop whose dream of becoming a homicide detective is shattered, his world torn apart, and the life of his wife and four children changed forever. The 6-year career of this young husband and father is cut short when he is shot at by a drug dealer, breaks a bone in his neck and forced to retire.
An Expert Criminal Defense Investigator
After a year of wallowing in self-pity, Donnelly is contacted by a well-known Manhattan Assistant District Attorney starting his own Private Investigation firm. He offers him a job as a private investigator working for defense lawyers who represent “the bad guys” who are charged with heinous crimes. Reluctantly, he takes the job to support his wife and three young daughters.
From this point on, his journey as Real Life P.I. begins, and Joe Donnelly becomes the most sought-after criminal defense homicide investigator in NY. His family and friends on the police force write him off, asking, how could you? Yet, somehow, deep down inside, he knew it was his calling.
Over 4,000 cases
Over two decades Donnelly investigates more than 4,000 federal and state cases. He is appointed by federal judges countless times as an expert investigator and paid by the government to investigate on behalf of predominantly indigent, minority defendants, many of whom were charged with Capital Murder, and faced a penalty of death by lethal injection or life in prison.
Clients included alleged high-ranking members of the five organized crime families operating out of NYC. Others were gang members from MS-13, Latin Kings, Sex-Money-Murder-Bloods, Crips, Salvadorians with Pride, Trinitarios, Dominicans Don’t Play, Hells Angels and Pagans, to name a few.
Wrongful Conviction Exonerations
Donnelly’s investigations helped to FREE six black men who were wrongfully charged, convicted and incarcerated for murder and another for rape. All INNOCENT!
Donnelly exposes a world where ethics and rules of evidence are swept under the rug, a win-at-all costs mentality turns justice into a mere illusion, and innocent people are wrongfully charged, convicted and imprisoned.
A Rigged System
Biased and prejudicial prosecutions occur within a rigged system where exculpatory evidence is withheld by prosecutors and law enforcement. Desperate cooperating witnesses are exploited, and the truth is grossly distorted by an over-reaching government.
Stories that will break your heart, corruption that will make you seethe and racism that will make you puke!
He Gets Too Close
Donnelly begins to expose a corrupt system that takes full advantage of the draconian federal sentencing guidelines, manipulates desperate cooperating witnesses, and sends an overwhelming number of minority defendants to penitentiaries to die.
After years of being a major thorn in their side, Donnelly becomes a target of the Department of Justice-Violent Crimes Unit in the Southern District of New York. Facing 45 years in prison for uncovering the truth and fighting for those who can’t fight for themselves, he embarks upon the most important investigation of his life
What The Defense P. I. Does
Donnelly interviews and debriefs thousands of clients charged with violent crimes. An innate ability mastered to build trust — He obtains valuable information to enhance the investigation and provide ammunition for defense counsel to zealously challenge the government’s evidence at trial. With every effective move the government seethes.
Donnelly wore a wire most days while locating and interviewing thousands of potential government witnesses, some pretty shady and dangerous individuals. Audio recordings he obtained were used by defense counsel to besmirch the credibility of a lying government witness at trial.
A Realistic Crime Drama Like Never Before
I have created a truly original crime drama based upon my personal and professional experiences as the lead investigator in over 4,000 Criminal Defense Investigations involving high-profile clients and notorious criminals on the FBI’s most-wanted list including:
- Thousands of indigent minority defendants
- John Gotti Jr., Sonny Franzese, Vincent Basciano, Ally-Boy Persico
- Bernard Madoff, “Boy George,” Sean Combs, Jennifer Lopez
- High-ranking members of MS-13, Latin Kings, Bloods
- Bosses, Soldiers & Captains in the five organized crime families in New York
- Ponzi schemes, securities fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud
- Hobbs Act robberies, racketeering, narcotics conspiracy
- Kidnapping, weapons distribution, slave labor
- And much more . . .
A husband and father of four, a neighbor, a soccer coach, a baseball coach and family man. Not many knew the intricacies of the secret and dangerous world he lived in, day to day, year to year or the constant flow of murder schemes that encapsulated his brain. A world where a switchblade on his ankle, 9MM snugly tucked in his waistband and a recording device buried on his body was the norm.
Getting the job done required Donnelly be open for business 24/7. He couldn’t wear a bulletproof vest or use a walkie-talkie radio to call for help, going home to his family at the end of the day was always a blessing!
Fresh And Gritty, Endless Content
There is no substitute for REAL LIFE experience. I have truly created an entertainment original that is from the perspective of an NYPD cop — turned expert Criminal Defense Investigator– turned defendant. Working from inside the most famous and ruthless city in the world, the inner workings of a corrupt, unethical Department of Justice are unveiled.
For over 20 years, I wrote extensively about defense theories, trial strategies and government corruption in relation to investigations conducted on behalf of some very “colorful defendants” charged by the government with the most elaborate, ruthless murder schemes and capers imaginable.
These are my stories . . .
