An early adopter of computers, Dr. Joe Parker explores AOL chat rooms, where all content downloads directly to subscribers' computers. During one online session, Parker stumbles across a chat room dedicated to child pornography.
Based on a true story of injustice and wrongful imprisonment, The Miscarriage of Justice by The FBI of Dr. Joe Parker is a sobering description of how assumptions, FBI ineptitude, and judicial self-interest devastated one man's life.
Sickened by his discovery, the ex-marine contacts the FBI, inadvertently triggering what is to become a legal and personal nightmare. Advised by the FBI not to delete the images from his computer, Joe waits for the law to take action. It does-against him.
Agents from the US Customs Department seize Parker's computer. When Parker explains he'd contacted the FBI, the bureau denies ever hearing from him.
What follows is a tragic miscarriage of justice, as an overeager prosecution charges the likable young doctor with multiple counts of possessing and trafficking in child pornography. Parker is advised to make a plea bargain. If he accepts, he'll minimize jail time, but will live knowing he pleaded guilty to a crime he never committed. If he doesn't, he can expect no mercy from the zealous, publicity-minded prosecutors.
About the Author: Donald Lee Duncan, MD, is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and the University of Tennessee Medical School. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgery whose residency focused on general surgery.
A practicing physician for more than fifty years, Duncan served as a US Navy flight surgeon with Marine Squadron VMA-124. He spent over thirty-five years as a general surgeon and has ten years' experience as an emergency-room physician.
Now retired from general surgery, Duncan does full-time urgent care. He has been married to his wonderful wife for fifty-two years.
