A Texas man is suing police, his hometown, and his accuser after he was arrested and charged with sexual assault before police even interviewed him.
John Marks is alleging he was wrongfully arrested, detained, and prosecuted despite “clear and compelling exculpatory evidence, including comprehensive surveillance footage and the inconsistent, false statements made by Amanda Zawieruszynski,” according to his lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by the Atlanta Black Star.
In his lawsuit, Marks, who is black, compared his case to the book “To Kill A Mockingbird,” in which a black man is falsely accused of sexual assault by a white woman and is presumed guilty because of his skin color.
“It totally turned my world upside down. It was literally a nightmare, having my life in somebody else’s hands. It was three felony charges of the most heinous thing a man could possibly do,” Marks told ABC 13. “I was fearful, thinking they were going to come back into my house, causing me…