Micah Kimball — “I spent three months in jail because a prosecutor hid evidence of my fiancée’s suicide (Opinion)”
Who was that prosecutor? Chief Deputy Dan Cohen from the Denver District Attorney’s office.
Seventy-two days. That’s how long Micah Kimball was imprisoned during the most devastating period of his life—wrongfully accused of his fiancée’s death—and a full year fighting for his life before a jury acquitted him.
The reason? A prosecutor hid the truth. Evidence that could have instantly cleared Micah was concealed—and the prosecutor who betrayed the justice system walked away without consequence.
When misconduct goes unpunished, anyone can lose everything. Micah Kimball lost everything, and the same broken system could fail any of us.
Micah, a victim of this miscarriage of justice and a former client of our founder and CEO, Iris Eytan, recently shared his gut-wrenching experience in an op-ed published by The Denver Post.
Micah Kimball with his parents.
“Tragically, in 2019, my fiancée took her own life. What began as one of the most heartbreaking, devastating experiences of my life turned into an unending nightmare. The police arrested me after I called 911 because they believed we had been arguing. But then, with scant investigation, prosecutors immediately charged me with murder and imprisoned me for 72 days without bail.
A jury eventually found me not guilty, but only after my attorney learned a prosecutor purposefully withheld evidence exonerating me. That may be unimaginable in America — but it happened to me. And when it did, I learned the hard truth: prosecutors (unlike almost any other lawyer or professional) enjoy absolute immunity, meaning both the wrongly accused and victims of crime have no recourse, and prosecutors cannot be sued for the damage they cause.”
Read Micah’s full Op-Ed in The Denver Post >>