Dr. Pramela Ganji had just finished her lunch when she was told that the appellate court had reversed and vacated her conviction. At first she didn't believe it.

After all, this whole experience had been surreal. Ganji, a 68-year-old well-respected medical doctor and married mother of three, had practiced medicine for 40 years without incident. Her patients loved her and she had dedicated her life to helping others.

Toward the end of her career, she started working at Christian Home Health. The government noticed that this company had a number of billing irregularities, and it received a complaint from a patient of another doctor. Based on nothing more, and without reviewing any of Ganji's records or patient files or interviewing a single one of her patients, the federal government charged Ganji in a sweeping conspiracy to commit health care fraud. At trial, the prosecution called 18 witnesses, none of whom had anything to say about Ganji. Most of them testified that they had never even met Ganji. Instead they simply spoke of the fraud that they were engaged in.