Rasheen Madison, born August 23, 1981 in Brooklyn, New York has been incarcerated since the young age of 18 for a crime he did not commit. In 2001 he was convicted and sentenced to 24 1/2 years as a first time felony for burglary and robbery. Through this ordeal he has remained vigilant in his fight for equal justice and needs the opportunity to be able to expose the injustice he has endured for the past 20 years. Rasheen’s conviction was solely based on the arranged identification from a Caucasian female who could not previously identify him. When this Caucasian female went to the police station she first identified someone who was not Rasheen. A grand jury commenced, where she went in front of them, and was asked if she could identify the young man that she had seen, she stated (verbatim) “ I cant differentiate the difference between black people unless I get to know them “. August 1, 2000 as Rasheen was waiting in the booking area of the Wayne County jail to be transferred to court , a police and prosecutor arranged identification in which was conducted by this same Caucasian  female, under the guise that she was being admitted to the jail, when in all actuality she was making and unduly suggestive identification. Rasheen is aware of this because the court had ask this woman to state her name, then asked to spell her last name which also happen to appear on a copy of his indictment, the damage was now done. She was now identifying the black male that she previously stated that she couldn’t. Rasheen was later transported to the court, where he made his attorney and the court aware of what was taking place. The District Attorney denied any knowledge of this, and his position was that he would not allow this woman to come to trial and identify anyone being that she stated she couldn’t. His attorney was then supposed to investigate this and he chose not to, only going solely off the word of the District Attorney. Rasheen’s lawyer filed a subpoena 6-7 months later for the log book, cameras etc from the county jail for the booking area which wasn’t executed. Five days before trial this Caucasian woman could now identify him after previously not being able to do so, which it’s obvious that it was staged by the police and District Attorney. Rasheen’s indictment In itself is defected, it doesn’t bare a signature of the foreman of the grand jury. His Voire Dire rights were violated when a hearing during trial was held in violation CPL.710.20 and 710.40. Rasheen is now litigating a 440 to attack the legality of his sentence and wrongful conviction. A major concern in this situation is that the same prosecutor is now the head judge in the court where he was convicted, due to the retirement of previous judge who Rasheen was convicted in front of this former prosecutor who is now current judge will take over his judicial duties. In that county Rasheen will not get a favorable decision as history will repeat itself while he will have go in front of a racist court. Rasheen will fairly need someone outside of that county to preside over his case. Rasheen is currently serving time at Greenhaven correctional where he works as a peer counselor for mental health inmates, we ask that you please help us get him a second chance at freedom where he can rekindle loss time with his love ones while also continuing to help and understand others who suffer with mental health once released. Thank you.