Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

“It is only now...that I am truly able to appreciate the New Zealand legal system for the fraud that it is...”
- Ani Mikaere, barrister, Colonising Myths, Maori Realities (2011)

“Right, you should not have been convicted. There's a lot questionable here...
the totality [of the evidence] points to a different narrative."
- King's Counsel (KC) barrister in Wellington, who I consulted after losing the trial

“Anything which shows [Mr. Moncarz's ex partner's] animosity and motivation is relevant.”
- Judge McNaughton, on his decision regarding admissibility of evidence in the case,
later re-confirmed by Judge Grau - and then ignored by my own lawyer, colluding with the prosecutor

The idiocy and corruption of the legal system needs pointing out. There are hundreds of thousands of wrongful convictions every year. And this is just one of them.

All this can be proven: (For the proof, read HERE)

My ex partner had long been threatening to use the police to get rid of me and shut the school down
She had long been threatening to lie to various authorities (such as the Ministry of Education) in order to get rid of me
She had long been using sexual accusations to bully me
She had long been using the idea of child molestation (accusing other people and me) in order to bully me
She had long been trying to force her children to reject me, to mirror her hatred, and to see me as dangerous
She was afraid she would lose custody of her kids to me because her children preferred me as a parent and used to tell everyone that they preferred me. They used to tell her to move out.
She was afraid she would go to jail because of her four years of bullying and abuse - towards all of us at home
She hired a private investigator to watch me in order to find "dirt" so that she could kick me out of the school - but found nothing.
She threatened to kill me and shoot me with my own hunting rifles
She was afraid because I had proof of her abuses
She forced her daughter to give a police statement against her daughter's wishes
She had long been trying to “turn” school parents against me with lies and defamation
She absolutely hated the school mothers and couldn't stand my friendship with some of them
She had long been saying anything she could to make people think the worst about me
She couldn't stand the fact that neither the school parents nor I wanted to work with her, and that we would soon be moving the school to get away from her (the allegations came 5 days after I informed her of this)

On top of that:

My own lawyer left out much of the above evidence, “forgot” evidence, did not follow my instructions, introduced ideas I had never spoken of before, cut me off while I was on the stand, would not let me cover all the previously-agreed-to information, did not cross-examine properly (such as failing to explore suspicious behavior by a Crown witness), did not explore possible coaching of a witness by the police, did not explore obvious coaching of one witness to another to lie on the stand, secretly agreed with the prosecutor beforehand to not look into my ex's motivation (despite the previous judge's ruling, quoted above), and then he asked me to lie on the stand and take the blame for his failure to provide the prosecutor with certain evidence. (This is the short list.)

Yes, the New Zealand legal system is a fraud.

“[T]here is an unjustified faith in the [legal] system.”
- Professor Daniel Medwed, Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University