ABC 20/20 cameras are at the home of Doreen Queen Giuliano in Brooklyn when her son John Giuca calls her from New York City’s Rikers Island. John was convicted of murdering Mark Fisher, a 19-year-old Fairfield University student in 2003 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. From jail, he gets to talk to his mother almost every day. He says she is “the only thing that keeps me going.” He says, without her “I’d be totally screwed.” To prove her son’s innocence, Giuliano went undercover. She created a false identity “Dee Madison Quinn” and changed her appearance – she got a sexy wardrobe, a pushup bra, wore heels, went to the tanning salon and wore a lot of makeup – all to try to attract Jason Allo, a juror in Giuca’s trial who was personally connected to one of Giuca’s friends. When the story broke, Vanity Fair nicknamed her “Mother Justice.”
In April 2018, Giuca’s conviction was overturned. Four judges of an appellate court agreed that the prosecutor (A.D.A. Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi) and police had helped jailhouse informant John Avitto, which might have affected the jury’s verdict. Avitto later testified that he provided false testimony. Avitto says in exchange for his testimony, he didn’t have to go to jail when he violated his probation. Giuca is still in jail. Prosecution has until May to decide whether or not to retry Giuca. The former A.D.A. Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi, who has “never lost a murder case” (35-0 record), announced that she’s hosting a new TV show on the Investigation Discovery channel called True Conviction. 20/20 airs Fridays at 10pm on ABC.
Two decades as a homicide prosecutor and she never lost a case. It’s time for #TrueConviction with Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi. #IDAddict #Premiere pic.twitter.com/sphihatImq
— DiscoveryID (@DiscoveryID) January 17, 2018
