Criminal Law
A Lawsuit Against Fayette County was Settled After Wrongful Conviction of a Man Imprisoned for 26 Years
David Munchinski spent nearly 26 years incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit.
He then waited nearly a decade more to go to trial in the federal lawsuit he filed against the men he said wrongfully convicted him on two counts of first-degree murder.
In December, Munchinski, who had long ago been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, asked to be deposed on video. The 69-year-old wanted to preserve his testimony in case something happened to him.
But attorneys for the Pennsylvania State Police and Fayette County prosecutors said they weren’t ready — that the timing was too close to the scheduled Jan. 10 trial date.
