and i'm joined and other top stories on al-jazeera the outgoing u.n. human rights chief is open to his last human rights council with a warning to saudi arabia numerati forces in yemen said i'll have a say and said the offensive on her day that could have disastrous effects on millions of people is warning comes as the battle for the port city intensifies. for size my grave warring regarding the saudi monarchy led coalition's ongoing attacks in her data which could result in normal civilian casualties and

have a disastrous impact on lifesaving humanitarian aid to millions of people which comes through the port mamma that has this update from djibouti. by the united nations to obtain a cease fire visiting our place. in the office or on. this show to lead a coalition. of the city targeting back out for some of both the militias that us feel. holed up in that they also help corpses targeting to feast my place on the rooftops of schools and other buildings some of them in for the areas and this us led to a massive displacement of people on something that could have. led to the un high commissioner for human rights making that statement in which he expressed concern about the father civilian casualties in the conflict but so did that.

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and other european nations should be blocked from entering germany but now interior minister horst has agreed to wait until an decision at its upcoming summit. the syrian regime is accusing the u.s. led coalition of bombing military positions in the east on sunday but the claim has been disputed by the u.s. central command this video posted online allegedly shows the aftermath of the airstrikes on the area which killed a number of iraqi militia fighters colombia's president elect yvonne duke a vase to alter the landmark peace deal with fox rebels the conservative newcomer finished with fifty four percent of sunday's vote following an election runoff that exposed deep divisions over the twenty sixteen accord. we started. with humility and honor i tell the colombian people that i will give all my energies to unite our country no more divisions let's think about

a country for all and everyone for me it's very important to tell you the whole of colombia but today there are no defeated citizens because i want to be the president that gives the same love to those who voted for me and those who didn't the chief executive of german car manufacturer audi has been arrested in relation to the emissions cheating scandal rupert studly was arrested on suspicion of fraud according to parent company folks organ the rest comes just days after v.w. was fined more than a billion dollars for cheating diesel emission tests by german prosecutors taking a video of israeli soldiers could soon be a crime punishable by ten years in prison pictures such as these of an israeli soldier shooting dead a palestinian man could fall foul of the proposed law. the headlines the system.

can you tell me about the day that the police came here door and started talking to you is that something you're able to. point. at everything when you're. going to sleep through the american criminal justice system enforces our laws and keeps watch over a person. who is watching the system. and joe berlinger and i used my camera for twenty years to knock down doors and pursue the truth just now we're going inside the american criminal justice system goes along for things the elected officials the court system the corrections to find out if justice is being served.

most homicides investigators will tell you that in the age of forensic science a good old fashioned confession is the gold standard of evidence. i've seen it myself nothing sways a jury more than a defendant who seems to admit to murder whether they did it or not you know it's so hard to wrap your head around the idea of false confessions you know why would somebody admit to a crime that they didn't commit but it happens more often than you would like the bank in twenty seven percent of the cases that are overturned by d.n.a. evidence the defendant gave a false statement. and they paid for it. in this episode we'll be looking at two cases where convictions were read. almost exclusively on the basis of the suspects confession. kiersten blaze lobato was convicted of homicide in las vegas she

claims she's innocent and she says her words were used against her kiersten lobato seen here in court is charged with murder and a sexual penetration of a dead human body the body of los vegas to randy bailey personal bottle confessed to this murder she admitted to unique circumstances and back to the point her didn't murder. the mom on. what has been jail over well here by me. j b f o menino is kiersten the bot as new york based defense attorney how they're going more you know in a m j b also oh no marlon is anything but if you guys are going to. really interest in talking about this case it's fascinated me for a while i've done a lot of cases that involve false confessions but but this one has a really special twist to this crucial point out in this case that there was not even a false confession there was not confession at all. cursed in place of

bottle did not confess to this crime. instead lobato claims she was raped in a parking lot in las vegas and defended herself by stabbing her attacker she told the counselor about the incident. when a homeless man named duran bailey was found dead and mutilated in a dumpster on the other side of town councillor called las vegas homicide. detectives came to her house she thought the near question her about her being a victim of a rape attempted rape a violent crime now a suspect in a murder case she was led to believe by their silence they're talking at the same case that one of the biggest travesties who deal with here says it. was on a law. well you have a complete culture from. a constant how you doing. life excellent excellent i really really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us i

know you haven't really done this before i am there and i'm going to. right now at the end of the day what do you want people to know about your case about your situation. i for one and all that i did. i didn't know that they were going to. win but i would tell you. what had happened and i figured if i told them the truth that everything would be ok. aside investigators are convinced lobato is lying that she conjured up an attempted rape story by a different person to cover up the murder of duran bailey when did you realize things were not ok. i think my arraignment probably remember a time that i would like oh i'm going there that. i have no right here that that they were great and they were that they were that brandon and they were talking about everyone. coming together in my mind. she believed in the criminal

justice system and the criminal justice system let her down. and. i'm steve moore and he's in the office today more times i. use to look case she was in the f.b.i. for about twenty five years promised myself i would not work. cases again where i had to go see autopsies i was one of those green retirement plans and. the problem with convicting on a case solely dependent on a confession confessions are useless without corroboration steve moore's investigation raises questions about whose version of events. it's more credible. when he breaks down the case he starts with the timeline you have the summer of two thousand and one right may here. get june

and you've got july. at the end of may you have to you're still a bottom she's in a parking lot in a hotel on the east side a las vegas. she is attacked he tried to rape her she took out a butterfly knife and was able to slash at him and told half a dozen friends in this time frame she told them in this time frame that this incident occurred and that she had slashed the man's penis now you have the murder in july of two thousand and one of duran bailey behind a bank in west las vegas. so we're talking months maybe six weeks difference so it's conceivable that the police confused the attack of late may where she defended herself. with the murder on july eighth. and

charged. with murder. our next case is a textbook example of how police officers can use it stream tactics to coerce a confession out of a suspect in a murder case and how prosecutors can develop tunnel vision and ignore the facts and fight tooth and nail against reopening a case. a false confession involves a completely made up story in which people are just looking to get out of a very threatening situation some will say anything thinking they can fix it later but there's no fixing it later they're stuck with these statements and these statements are used against them in a court of law. in the fall of one thousand nine hundred nine the town of peekskill new york was stunned by the brutal murder and rape of a fifteen year old girl named angela. investigation confession and eventual conviction of a sixteen year old student named jeffrey deskovic has shaken up the justice system

here all these years later. i already well thanks for helping me so i wanted to look at some of those articles from eighty nine about the desk of a case sure we have all the story here. from. hill police investigate. from peekskill homes i think right i so you might have i very ironic that. jeffrey deskovic and one of his lawyers watch as the jury inspects the site where angela gray is body was found in november of one thousand nine hundred nine look how young he looks i just can't imagine being in that situation going to the murder

site surrounded by the jury press crazy situation. most of the journalists who cover the desk a big case of moved on but i tracked down one writer who stuck with the story jonathan bandler is an investigative reporter for the journal news. walk me through the case november fifteenth one thousand nine hundred nine angela korea she was a fifteen year old pisco high school student she left her house on main street as she was headed for some woods behind crossed elementary school near griffin pond carrying a camera going to take some pictures he was in a photography class she got up there and she was in the woods at some point between three thirty and four thirty two was brutally attacked his body was nude from the waist down the medical examiner determined she died from a blow to the head and manual strangulation she was sexually assaulted blood semen

and the hair samples were collected for d.n.a. testing and sent to the f.b.i. crime lab with no leads the police created a psychological profile of the killer asserting that he was young knew the victim and most likely was a loner. peekskill new york in one nine hundred eighty nine this quiet town in upstate new york was on edge a fifteen year old high school student named angela correia was raped and murdered local investigators were narrowing their search to one and only one suspect. one thing that was interesting was jeffrey deskovic was a sixteen year old student there he had been a classmate he wasn't a close friend but he was certainly somebody who knew her. she showed up at each of the memorial services she was clearly distraught and he also started talking to the police offering his own theories about what happened. kind of fit that profile so

they started talking. deskovic sansar is only raise suspicion. police assert that he admitted to knowing what correia wore on the day of the murder. that he was familiar with the crime scene. and that he knew she was strangled and hit in the head. so police asked him for a blood sample then a polygraph. you had a psychologically vulnerable teenager you had aggressive investigators it was a perfect storm that engulfed geoffrey dust. and there is a lot i took cover letter jeff that's been especially nice to meet us and obviously the target what do you got going on here and we have a ranch a game called beyond the bars recharge free entry and it's a tool designed to facilitate for me incarcerated people reentry getting back into

society and reconnecting with with their family get me some cars or example selling cars or a ship questions ok. did you pray while you were incarcerated if yes what did you pray for i would you answer that to do prayer while you were there sir i prayed early and often. to use a far from what's terminology. i prayed to that my innocence could be established and i would i would be released that it took sixteen years but it was grant during his sixteen years in prison jeffrey deskovic would often replay the details of his confession especially the lie detector test. so the next day rather than go to school i went to the police station expecting that the test would be at peace kill headquarters. action instead of what they took me to the town of brewster which is then putnam county new york. on the graphics himself was actually putnam county

sheriff's investigator who was pretending to be a civilian so i never saw him he was a police officer. the polygraph is are this technique that he was used to carrying out which he had an acronym for g.t.c. . get the confession. polygraphist but me and a small roman attaches a polygraph machine so he gives me countless cups of coffee and the reason why that's important is because the premise of the polygraph is that when you tell a lie you'll become nervous and the nervousness will result in an increased all straight. the polygraphist use a lot of third rate tactics i mean raises voice me been to my personal space he kept asking me the same questions over and over again. and getting more and more ferocious as each hour happened he kept us up for more than seven hours towards the end of the interrogation he made

a statement to me saying that what do you mean you didn't do what you just told me through the test that you did i just want you to virtually confirm this. but he said that that really shocked my fear through the roof. being young naive frightened sixteen. i wasn't thinking about the long term implications i was just concerned my own safety in the moment and i took the out what she offered and i made up a story based upon information which i had yet mean of course of their during. this interrogation was never recorded instead investigators would rely on the polygraph examiners recollections. he wrote the desk of mixed last words were i sometimes think i did it because i know too much about the things where she was killed. i would say that i was a complete mental and emotional wreck at that point and anstey police officers testimony that i was on the floor in a futile position crying uncontrollably. deskovic was arrested and charged with

murder. prosecutors rushed the case to the grand jury. three days after he was indicted the d.n.a. report came back deskovic the d.n.a. did not match the evidence prosecutors went ahead with the case anyway in january one thousand nine hundred one deskovic was tried convicted and sentenced to fifteen years to life is false confessions sent him to prison despite no d.n.a. evidence linking him to the crime. what's it like to go through that kind of a nightmare. it is just that is seen nightmarish alternative reality featuring the guards see presidents the staff all those obstacles to the awesome a goal which is to prove your innocence and therefore regain your freedom. in las vegas kiersten lobato is living her nightmare twelve years into

a twenty year sentence lobato is still claiming her innocence but she's watching her chances of exoneration slip away. you know from dave better than i ever have preferred i mean it is a challenge it's a fair thing for me at this point made i have become somewhat of a wind right i have a just cause for firing. i'm scared of what the future holds for me as your family holding up their all this. hard i'm better now than they were. and they're free they were around. i'm with you right now you're finding out the fam went on i had no idea here. i'm not going to put too much water on the tomatoes dad says that well i'll get another thank you no water and i'm too much and i don't look that good. the best

way for me to explain it is i feel kind of frozen in time it's a very strange thought that life has frozen in till she comes and that's what it seems like. we don't do a whole heck of a lot we don't do holidays for us the holidays are food that they don't decorate i don't want our career we don't celebrate we don't do any of that she's gone she's not here you know thanksgiving yeah. thanks for what telling the truth and the truth will set you free don't kid yourself. that's that's the bitterness part and i know that that is do you think that's a way that you're kind of frozen in time yeah yeah we're frozen in time to hear that. because if you do the day to day your orders are the zero eight zero. zero zero i just come home from work and blaze was coming out of the shower and the

two detectives were inside the living room waiting for blaze to get out the shower my reaction was i didn't know what the hell was going on at first. and then i watched through the window and he showed a picture and she was shaking her hand i could see what was going on and then they turned on i saw the tape turned on it you're just her hair and. it was they knew. they were. there and then i mean they were person. like me. but you never hear. in the. bit. or. ok and you're right it.

was very. serious. but. the body of the. risk or whatever you are that. this would be the only interview cure still about it would help with las vegas detectives and her next statement would in many ways seal her fate. maybe to make me late. and then of a century stood up and they put you know put handcuffs on and that's when i lost it right then i was like what's going on skis my language and when she came out that's when she said she was attacked by a man he tried to rape her and apparently he died and i was like well it's self defense. last vegas is a tough city the city has a certain lure. there's

a criminal element on the streets of los vegas especially in the tougher neighborhoods this is downright frightening. but a sex related crimes drugs. so a very interesting place to be a crime reporter. glenn pewit covered the kiersten law about a case for the las vegas review. the active theory recording prosecutors and police was the misl bato had had an interaction with mr bailey that was sexual in nature he had lured her into a sexual encounter for the purposes of drugs and for giving her some methamphetamine and then he didn't have any mouth and that this induced kind of a meth psychosis that caused her to completely snap and become extremely violent and engage in what is so commonly referred to as overkill the prosecution had a strong point of view regarding the circumstances and the motive for the crime but

the case is riddled with inconsistences you start simply with the. with the basics of the case you have this crime scene this is a cinder block area behind a bank they find a body of a man. and he had been brutally murdered. right about here they found six of his teeth. right here they found a pool of blood where is carotid artery had been cut underneath him here they found a pool of blood because somebody had stuck a knife in his rectum they had also taken his penis that was found here he would have bled to death from the carotid he had broke. no ramps his teeth were knocked out he was basically beaten bludgeoned and mutilated. to death so here's where my mind starts to get blood there's no hair d.n.a.

prints from kiersten found at the crime scene there's no skin cells can you imagine he lost sixty and they're saying that she didn't even lose the hair off her head the forensics tell you the complete lack of any evidence of her ever being here to me now you've got a huge problem. what investigators did have was a confession by cure still a bottle along with circumstantial evidence linking her to the crime. prosecutors reviewed the case and decided to offer lobato a three year plea deal which she rejected. frankly it was stunning you know she was in a lot of trouble there was a big risk for her i mean a huge risk because in nevada a first degree murder conviction is an automatic by sentence were you in july i was in packer williams last and your children you know i don't know. this is

one of those cases where you can't help but feel sorry for the defendant and you also can't help but think that there's a compelling argument for innocence there's no physical evidence that links person about a c i mean none but they ran into a buzz saw are. multiple stab wounds multiple head wounds multiple cut. multiple defensive. bill kept as a very good prosecutor he was all over and really questioning everything she said and was trying to make her look like a liar is it self-defense to walk away after cutting a person's. go back once again today. or is the premeditation he was just on top of or really went after her statements to the police statement then. all those. i don't think anybody would miss somebody like that.

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we sit back and wait or do we surprise them with a preemptive strike by the oil analogy zero. man. and i'm joined on and other top stories on al-jazeera turkish forces have entered the outskirts of the syrian city of man beige as part of an agreement with the us earlier this month the syrian kurdish people's protection unit said their military advisers would leave the town turkey had been infuriated by washington support for kurdish fighters across its border and crow threaten to push its offensive in the african region further east to man bridge risking a confrontation with u.s. troops stationed there you know the syrian regime is accusing the u.s. led coalition of bombing military positions in the east on sunday but the claim has

been disputed by the u.s. central command this video posted online allegedly shows the aftermath of the airstrikes in the. area which killed a number of iraqi militia fighters the outgoing year and human rights chief has opened his last human rights council with a warning to saadi and amorality forces in yemen said right all her son said the offensive on her data could have disastrous effects on millions of people is warning comes as the battle for the port city intensifies. for size my grave warring regarding the saudi monarchy led coalition's ongoing attacks. which could result in normal civilian casualties and have disastrous impact on lives humanitarian aid to millions of people which comes through the port at least twenty eight people have died in an offensive by the libyan warlord khalifa haftar

targeting oil terminals in the east his forces lost control of the town of ruslan of on thursday afternoon attack by rival groups the so-called oil crescent was seized by have to us forces in twenty sixteen. german chancellor angela merkel has accepted a compromise on the refugee issue in order to save her coalition government her conservative allies the christian social union had demanded that refugees registered other european nations should be blocked from entering germany but now interior minister horse c.e.o. of a has agreed to wait until an e.u. wide decision at its upcoming summit the chief executive of german car manufacturer audi has been arrested in relation to the diesel emissions cheating scandal rupert said there was a race on suspicion of ford according to these parent company folks augur those are the headlines let's go back to the system. history is so often told through the eyes of leaders but in amritsar india just thirty kilometers from the border with

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i was in america where interest and character to children you know until. there's no physical over that links personal bottom i mean not bill kept as a very good prosecutor he was all over her and really questioning everything she said and was trying to make her look like a liar is it self-defense to walk away after cutting a person's been or saw him go back to death. i was of a meditation he was just top of it and really went after her statements to the police statement then. was. i think anybody would miss somebody like that. that was where the trial really turned you know there was doubt in the air. and when she got on the witness stand she struggled that's not to say that you know. she didn't stick to

her story she did she just wasn't a great witness first you have a young lady who said she was the victim of an attempted rape and that he's a knife to stab someone in their genitals yet there was never any police report filed no one was ever reported to the hospitals was such a wound basically the only person we have to verify this account is mr bato you can see that something's not right and something doesn't add up. imagine if you had done something like this and you wanted to come clean about it or you couldn't keep it inside anymore or you couldn't admit you did so you come up with an ancillary kind of similar scenario but you're not really admitting to what you did that there was a justifiable. but. as proclaimed her innocence from the very beginning . and so the defense rolled the dice rejected the plea agreement and taken their

chances and gone to trial and they lost. the possibility that she didn't do this. as a possible she's innocent yes it is. is it likely that she's going to get out of prison . i don't think so. you have to have strong arms to drive this thing but i always thought i was at. yes and then i found out you know that i can't carry the whole world and that kind of was a shock to a guy like me because i always had their control of everything when my daughter got arrested i found out how little control actually. in all reality there was a number of emotions that go through something like this you feel ashamed but not ashamed of your child you feel ashamed of yourself because you know what could i have done different i had all this faith in the system and believed that the truth

would prevail and everything would just be fixed and and it didn't and when it didn't i didn't see things the same anymore i felt that the whole system had failed us and that's when the gates of hell opened up we that's when it started to spiral that mean it was drugs everything every day and alcohol person each other away and push enjoy it away and fighting in the one who doesn't david pay a lot for it dogs actually is ashley and i i feel bad about that. because she missed out on a lot of things because we were stuck in time or we were stuck on drugs or we were battling and fighting and doing all the craziness and she's the one who paid the price for it to. kind of film helpless in what way she's in there and you can't get her out.

what's this done to you when you're from whom. it's. never going to be the same. i was there i know she wasn't there. and nobody would listen. to. you. so tell me were were happy

so i intended to kill manhattan up college i will be discussing my arrest and direction and time to present a fine of bunch of social justice people college students when you give presentations like this doesn't stir up a motions and one hand it's cathartic but that all comes with a price i mean less my experience you know a motion i summon you know i'm remembering. really get tense moments and you know traumatic but it's my life. during his years in prison jeffrey deskovic fought in exhaustive legal battle. often alone writing dozens of letters and filing petitions . it was essentially begging prosecutors to retest herron semen samples recovered from the victim in the case angela correia.

he was reading about how codice and you know the d.n.a. databases and you know he just wanted at some point for that to be put in there because maybe the real coby be identified you know he hadn't done it the district attorney during deskovic cigars aeration was jeanine pirro. best known these days as a television judge. pirro consistently denied deskovic request for a d.n.a. database comparison and no court would order her to change your opinion. deskovic was starting to lose hope. my lowest day i learned that i lost my petition for avis corpus i was seeking to have my conviction overturned in federal court and argue my innocence from our d.n.a. and the decision comes back that i've lost because the court clerk. rule that my paperwork arrived forty slate. and i get this news while

i'm in the special housing unit i'm in the box because i defended myself against people who wanted to kill me because in their minds i was a rapist. my main reaction to that i wanted to commit suicide at that point. when inmates like deskovic run out of legal options often it's up to the local district attorneys to reinvestigate. without their consent cases can sit for years . finally in january two thousand and six when pirro left her job to run as new york's attorney general he caught a break. once the innocence project got involved they went to the new district attorney. and they asked for the testing she said yeah let's go ahead and test it that was in the summer of two thousand and six within weeks d.n.a. analysis matched the semen recovered from the rape kit to

a prisoner named steven cunningham jonathan bandler tracked cunningham down and got him to talk about his encounter with angela correia how did it killing. who was doing it. what was it. what did she do you. know. nothing no. cunningham serving a life sentence for murdering a schoolteacher in one thousand nine hundred three. four years after he raped and murdered angela her. and of course that murder might have been prevented right sure . actually after that we came back we show the video to jeff. and jeff was very upset because cunningham had said that he didn't realize anybody had had gone to

prison for that killing. on september twentieth two thousand and six after spending half of his life behind bars thirty two year old jeffrey deskovic walked out of prison a free man there was a long time that i felt that this day would actually never called you know in a way it still doesn't really feel real it hasn't hasn't fully hit me at this point . do you think that the police really believed they were bringing in the right suspect this was not a good faith error on the part of the police officers they they knew the coercion that went on and then when you think about the fact that the d.n.a. did not match me seven months before trial the re results of that argument it was a good faith of the bottom drops out of that it was intentional. westchester county district attorney janet di fiore commissioned a report that broke down the systemic failings that led to deaths convicts conviction and offered suggestions for reform. they pointed out there were two

clear problems with prosecution clear problems with police. initially the first one was tunnel vision. the police had this profile once they had this kid who matched it who was inserting himself into the investigation. that's all they looked at they didn't look at anybody else. once the arrest was made the prosecution also had the tunnel vision they were going to go with that confession they weren't going to let this d.n.a. road bump stop them at all. they definitely took liberties that fueled his conviction. and deskovic is making the system pay for its mistakes. he filed lawsuits against the city of peekskill westchester county in the state of new york . deskovic settled those cases for thirteen point seven million dollars used some of the money to earn a master's degree in criminal justice and most importantly he started a foundation to help the wrongfully convicted.

so when you do this stuff do you get nervous sir nearly i always get i always get nervous yeah i was get nervous and i was elect you know not worthy and you know sometimes even question what i'm doing actually how can you feel that wherever you went through hell and you inspire others so hard how you know you're right but you're right. once in awhile i have a little i have a brief moment of self-doubt yeah i guess we all go i guess sure. i've interviewed a lot of people who have been wrongfully convicted and the thing that amazes me about people in that situation is the lack of bitterness the desire to do good things with their life spite being falsely convicted and that is the case with every desk the work that deskovic is doing with his foundation is pretty amazing he's really trying to turn his life around. and evening everybody. i need some more energy in the room one more time in unison so in our unity symbolic of the work

we're going to do in the cause of justice fighting wrongful convictions in unisons please everybody along with me good evening everybody. this is in las vegas care still about his case has remarkable similarities to desk of x. when she was granted a second trial in two thousand and six her new defense team could not convince the court to conduct d.n.a. tests on critical pieces of evidence evidence that could potentially point to another suspect the judge looked at all the evidence in the case and said no there is no reasonable possibility that any of the evidence in this case that were tested for d.n.a. could result in an exoneration of personal bottle but this is not a d.n.a. case it's a confession case personal bottle confessed to this murder. labatt who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sexual penetration of a corpse or sentence thirteen to twenty five years. by two thousand and twelve

lobato was running out of legal options then a new district attorney steve wolfson was appointed he had little connection to the case. alibaba supporters are pressing him to take action and they're getting help from one of the country's top experts jeffrey deskovic yeah i just want you to update in terms of what's taken place with the case just got. and you know clark county i'm going out there monday to actually have. our main goal with that is to you know push the agenda in a test. where we cannot have a. right to point that out. today it's not ok what's in fact the d.n.a.

this isn't just a proud pearson's and it's about finding the real killers they did not find any have here's the place of honesty at the scene and the d.n.a. that was at the scene has not been tested. here's what they didn't test and bailey was dead in the alley and they did a rape kit assault kit on his rectum and they found stuff you know they didn't test to see whose it was i tell you what it's not going to be it's not going to be semen for cures that. there were cigarette butts in the. cigarette butts are great places for d.n.a. not just because your fingers touch them but because your saliva touches them are testing those would not be interesting to find out of if the cigarette butts were similar d.n.a. to what was found inside the victim it's been ten years technology has advanced those traces can now point to who did this and yet they still refuse to test

one. after years of negotiation his defense team has finally secured a private meeting with clark county district attorney steve wilson former f.b.i. investigator steve morris on and to present his findings. one of things that i think that may take a. pressure up of well sense an extent with maybe he might listen or is that he wasn't the head of the set at his time you're not getting him in any way like saying hey this is what you walked in to look at right now that is the truth he had nothing to do with this everything i've heard or experienced with steve wilson shows me to be at least so far that he is a reasonable man and i don't think he is the concrete is dry in his mind about this case i agree everyone else. in new york jeffrey deskovic may be free from a prison cell but in many ways he remains deeply affected by what the system did to

him some of the afflictions that i have had to wrestle with included overcoming panic attacks anxiety attacks becoming frightened if i simply saw a police officer on the street let's the speech is a chance to share the stage with recent exonerations. innocent men who served time with deskovic jeffrey pleads for justice he pleads for those who are still imprisoned innocent men and women who are losing the prime of their years not only did he buy me the clothes of but he shared with me a housing. he has an apartment in inman and which he insisted in housing me for about six months. professor thank you deskovic foundation investigates both d.n.a. and non d.n.a. cases they dig up key witnesses and arrange legal assistance for indigent prisoners

and every chance he gets deskovic pushes back against a system that took away the prime years of his life we need to videotape interrogations for false confessions have been the cause of awful conventions in the twenty five percent of the three hundred eleven d.n.a. proven awful convictions across the country we need to roll back the doctrine of prosecutorial immunity once an arrest has been mean there's nothing to restrain rogue prosecutors from engaging in misconduct and therefore they should face criminal charges and have to serve at least as much data remasters ask who authored what do you want people to know about your situation essential points i'd like people to know about my case is that i had never been arrested for anything

but i was not a high school dropout and that if the police want to talk to you then even if you're going to send you should insist on them providing with a lawyer if you think that safe to talk to the police without benefit of a lawyer just because you're innocent i need to do is look at me and know that that's not true it happened to me and it can happen to anybody try to run off. in las vegas j b f m anina and steve moore finally get the face to face meeting with the d.a.'s office. reset the stage for them to understand the go ahead a little bit. don't say you know you should really don't want that because i'm going to be saying do you have a. opportunity unless you're very careful to be quite yet you come out and say hey this isn't all of better built by the second. hour cameras were not allowed into the meeting over the next two hours j.b.

and steve advocating on behalf of cures to live bato arguing in favor of new d.n.a. testing on case evidence trying to convince steve wilson to reconsider the state's case. it was. more confrontational than i expected. to see hear me finish a sentence one time he said and we're not here to and i said stonewall. unfortunately steve wolfson decided not to attend the meeting instead three assistant prosecutor sat in on his behalf. there was absolutely no meeting of the mind. outside of a short conversation on football they hold on to their belief that they are right we hold on to our knowledge that they're wrong law for instance he left for a talk about talk about d.n.a. testing what's the statute this is the legal statute this says we can't do when we

can't and i say look just between us you know that you have the power outside the box and go house and x. right he then legacy plays kirsten was to be released in six months. to make a deal what if she got out of parole and six months later he said he was to be careful don't sound as if he said with that stock you look from doing what you're doing now i said absolutely does to work they're all going to clear her name this is not justice. we asked steve wilson to comment on this story he turned down our request we got in touch with thomas townsend the lead detective in the case it also declined to comment bill kept the prosecutor in both trials now a judge he did not respond to our phone calls.

ok now this down on the. ok yeah that's good you can turn it off. my plan is to fix this truck up. and then get another one that's very similar and put a little bit of me into it and then of course when the time comes let the girls play with the trucks they'll flip a coin or however it is to see who gets what do you forsee a day that she's going to get out of there and i'm walking straight into your house absolutely that day when i can finally have my family in my house all having an actual meal together instead of eating out of. vending machine that's the day i've been waiting for an hour. i just you know i try to stay in pretty decent shape and i eat right and my objective is to stay alive long enough to see are free

. if everything goes well. she could be free in as little as eight years. she's been down for twelve. if the truth ever comes out and she should be set free today justice hasn't been served because whoever actually did this crime is still free. we're probably running out of time so this is maybe my last question is it hard to like know that there's an effort going on outside but you just have to kind of keep to the day to day of your existence and it's hard on her heart to be a martially gifted i mean on. her mare i think and i fight it and i think ok well maybe that's going to be. going on. and i happen to have my camera right back. to her benefit back then the rack mounted.

yeah well we wish you the best anything you want to say before we go as i say blaze you know awesome job and keep your head up look at you but you think i'm the only good night. and ceremoniously. heartbreak again is. examining mandatory sentencing in the us if the state of florida requires the rest of my life in here as a tradeoff for my family's life the bargain i'll do it if the defendant goes to trial the judge has no option but to give the mandatory minimum they were complying with this judge gives you five years and this judge gives you twenty years so the legislature to make a difference exploring the dockside of the american justice system with joe byrne and on al-jazeera.

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