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A federal judge in Newark officially set the terms of Paul Kamienski's release today, freeing the former Garfield businessman on bond after he spent more than 20 years in prison for two drug-related murders he didn't commit.
U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Chesler signed the order today at the direction of three U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals judges who overturned the murder convictions earlier this month, saying the evidence didn't support the verdicts.
Kamienski will remain under court supervision on a $1 million bond while the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office awaits a ruling from the remaining judges on the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. The court could either support their fellow jurists' decision or -- in what would be an extremely rare move -- reject it.
Earlier this month the three-judge panel agreed that the prosecutor in the case held back evidence and fabricated half-truths in securing his conviction in Nov. 1988 as an accomplice in the drug-related Jersey Shore slayings of Barbara and Henry “Nick” DeTournay.
Kamienski was looking at another 19 years in prison before parole eligilbility. But attorney Timothy McInnis, a former prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark, took up the case and virtuallyl made history in the Third Circuit.
For more on the case, go to: Federal judges overturn Jersey playboy's murder conviction
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