Bobby Campbell is a man wrongfully convicted of murder as a result of forensic analyst Lisa Russo's scientific misconduct, in a case that made Lieutenant Anita Van Buren's career.
History[]
Bobby and his colleague Larry Martin were working at a construction site near city hall, around the time gangster David Gale was shot dead. The mayor wanted response to close the case as soon as possible, so Russo claimed the fingerprint evidence was enough to be matched to Bobby and Larry. Brenda Warren, a prostitute affiliated with one of the killers, Ray Gifford, perjured herself on the stand to finger Bobby and Larry. Van Buren made grade as a result of the case's "success", and Bobby and Larry ended up with a 25-to-life sentence. Larry was shanked to death by another inmate nine years later. Eventually, Campbell and his wife agreed to a divorce, and their son grew up without him.
Bobby eventually met Glenn Edwards, an inmate in for drug offenses who coincidentally knew one of the real killers, James Foley. Bobby's brother Luke went between Bobby and Edwards to get information on Foley, who he confronted at his apartment. Luke killed Foley in a fight, which resulted in renewed interest in Bobby's case, in spite of him saying it was hopeless. When Bobby was revealed to be innocent, he was released, while Luke wasn't charged with killing Foley due to the high probability of jury nullification such a trial would cause. When Russo was revealed to be the problem, she was tried for Larry's manslaughter as a consequence of sending him to prison, thus endangering his life, with her lies. Bobby testified at the trial about his life after being arrested and convicted, and how it got Larry killed. In the end, Russo was convicted and imprisoned. (L&O: "Myth of Fingerprints")