> A crappy background check system that reports him as an ex-con/drug dealer when he's been exonerated The article states: > Three months after his conviction

> A crappy background check system that reports him as an ex-con/drug dealer when he's been exonerated The article states: > Three months after his conviction, though, the King County deputy whose testimony led to Simmons’ conviction, James Schrimpsher, was fired for dishonesty in a different drug case [..] Simmons insists he didn’t sell drugs and believes he was profiled [..] he served the full prison term at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, plus a year of probation when he got out. This means it has not been exonerated. The background check superficiality is not what this case is about. The problem in this case is a system where it's not easy for a convicted person receive a retrial unless the defendant has big money. > That the deputy was being investigated for lying at the same time as Simmons’ trial had not been disclosed to Simmons’ attorneys. Point 2 still holds.