In 1988, a jury convicted Paul Kamienski and another of murder, felony murder and drug possession conspiracy.  The government's theory of the case was that the murders resulted from a drug deal gone bad. The trial court rejected jury's verdict on the murder charges and sentenced Kamienski to the drug related offense. An appellate court later reinstated the murder convictions and sentence him to life terms along with a 12 year consecutive term for the drug convictions. It also imposed a 40 year parole disqualifier.

After Kamienski exhausted his appellate routes in New Jersey, he moved to the federal courts, where the Third Circuit granted his petition for habeas corpus and ordered his release. Recently, Kamienski  sued the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, contending that the lawyers and investigators assigned a case illicitly influence his former girlfriend to make false statements, including one where she said Kamienski dispose of the body subject of the murder. He also claimed that the prosecutor’s office withheld evidence that could have establish his innocence, including the fact that DNA was not found on any of the items located at the murder scene.

The case was filed in the Federal District Court of New Jersey against prosecutors, former prosecutors and investigators. One of the prosecutors is now Superior Court Judge.  Kamienski  seeks compensatory and punitive damages.