hello again adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera the trumpet ministration isn't backing down from its controversial policy of splitting up families that tries across the us mexico border illegally the policy is drawing criticism from across the political spectrum but president trump says that he will not allow america to become a migrant camp a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. growing outrage in the united states over this children appearing to be detained along the southern border of the united states separated from their parents who awake court appearances accused of entering the united states illegally it's a practice the trumpet ministration is defending this in ministration has a simple message if you cross the border illegally we will prosecute you if you

make a false immigration claim we will prosecute you if you smuggle illegal aliens across an extraordinarily dangerous journey we will prosecute you the policy of separating children has been in place for more than a decade but until recently was always considered an action of last resort for some and has surged under president donald trump who's not backing down from his hard line policy the united states will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility won't be. you look at what's happening in europe you look at what's happening in other places we can't allow that to happen to the united states not on my watch zero humanity and it makes zero sense the president's comment to provoke growing outrage among democrats and even members of his own republican party trumps admitted separating children from their parents is horrible but is trying to once again pressure congress into passing immigration reform laws

it's been promising on monday he tweeted change the laws and later he blamed his democratic opponents for not reforming the laws even though republicans currently control congress and both parties have failed to deliver immigration reform for decades and until there are new laws in place or trumps infamous border wall is funded the attorney general says zero tolerance policy will continue we cannot and will not encourage people to bring their children or the children to the country unlawfully by giving them immunity in the process tom is expected to travel to capitol hill to speak with republican lawmakers on tuesday but a series of immigration proposals but none is expected to pass setting up an emotional debate that is unlikely to be resolved until voters go to the polls for congressional elections in november kimberley health at al-jazeera washington

germany's chancellor angela merkel is facing a growing crisis of her own over immigration she's been given a two week ultimatum by one of her coalition partners to tighten asylum rules or lose support that could bring down the government and force you elections. the u.n. security council is calling on all sides in the war any emon to respect international law government forces backed by a saudi embassy coalition of fighting to retake the port city of her data from hootie faces. the united nations has called on nicaragua's government to invites u.n. monitors into the country without the late president daniel take has agreed to an investigation into the political violence that has killed nearly one hundred eighty people since april but protest leaders say the government is refusing to show them copies of the invitation but it's supposed to send to foreign investigators that schools talks between the two sides to stall turkish soldiers the patrolling the

outskirts of the syrian city of man bitch as part of a deal with the u.s. earlier this month turkey and the u.s. agree that the kurdish y.p. g. forces should leave the city they've controlled man bitch since driving i saw out in twenty sixteen with the help of u.s.s. supports so he considers the wipe e.g. a terrorist group more than a thousand doctors in australia have signed a petition calling for refugee his dying of lung cancer to be allowed into the country for specialist care the man known as ali is being held in offshore detention center on the tiny pacific island. those that lies the news continues as era of the system next.

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 talk about equality. and everything with. one since. the american criminal justice system enforces our laws and keeps watch over a person. who is watching the system. and joe berlinger and i use my camera for twenty years to knock down doors and pursue the truth just now we're going inside the american criminal justice system going to law enforcement 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 to thank 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 will be. looking at two cases where convictions were reached 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 peers didn't lobato seen here in court is charged with murder and a sexual penetration of a dead human body the body of last begun to rant bailey personal bottle confessed

to this murder he admitted to unique circumstance of the fact that when her didn't murder. the mom on the phone would have been jailed 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 into you know an a m j b also oh i don't borrow money but if you guys are going to be good i'm really interested in talking about this case is 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 push to 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 and they're questioning 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 of the same case that one of the biggest travesties would deal with here. bob low 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 here and i'm sure you're. right now at the end of the day what do you want people to know about your case about your

situation. i don't want them now that i did. i didn't know that marriage. between what i would try and. what had happened and then i figured if i told them the truth and everything would be ok. i'm a side 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. i have no idea 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 i granting. she believed in the criminal justice system and the criminal justice system let her down.

and. i'm steve more time in the office today more time i. use to look case was in the f.b.i. for about twenty five years promised myself i would not work. cases. 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 raise. there's questions about whose version of events is 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. the next case is a textbook example of how police officers can use of 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. usually 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 correia. the 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. for. peace. police investigate. from peekskill holmes i think right i so you might have their eye on one of our great. jeffrey deskovic and one of his lawyers watches 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 carrier 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 he 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 korea 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 engulfs jeffrey dust. if there is a lot of what goes around here jeff that's been especially nice to meet us and obviously the target what he what he 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 from incarcerated people reentry getting back into society and reconnecting with with their family i mean some cars are examples of something cars aeration questions ok. did you pray while you were incarcerated if

yes what did you pray for i would you answer that the deprived while you were very sorry i prayed early and often. to use a far from us sports 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 granted 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. where the graphics himself was actually a putnam county sheriff's investigator who was pretending to be a civilian 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 butts me in a small room in attacks 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 law you'll become nervous of 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 shot 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 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 and it's the 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 prefer

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 they don't decorate it don't want our great 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 the truth will set you free don't kid yourself. that's that's the bitterness part and i know that and yes 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 they take your orders or there's your eight. year old 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 there. they were. there and then i mean they were person. like me. but you never hear. in the. world. or. ok and you're right it. was very. early in the body of. risk or whatever you are saying. 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 make me late. and then i was senshi 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 self defense . and. 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 lobato 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 math and that this induced kind of a meth psychosis that caused her to completely snap and become extremely violent and engage in what is a 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 his carotid artery 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 ribs 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 an america where years less 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 and bill kept 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 penis off go back once again today. ours have a meditation he was just on top of it and really went after her statements to the police statement then. i don't think anybody would miss somebody like.

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hello again adrian filling in here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera despite growing condemnation u.s. president donald trump is refusing to stop separating migrant families who are illegal and illegally enter the country trump says that he will not allow america to become a migrant camp and blame the opposition democrats for his policies in the united states will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility won't be. you look at what's happening in europe you look at what's happening in other places we can't allow that to happen to the united states not on my watch meanwhile germany's chancellor angela merkel is facing a growing crisis of her own of immigration she's been given

a two week ultimatum by one of our coalition partners to type in asylum rules or lose support that could bring down merkel's government and force new elections the u.n. security council is calling on all sides in the war in yemen to respect international law government forces backed by a saudi embassy coalition fighting to retake the port city of her data from who thief isis. the united nations has called on nicaragua's government to invite u.n. monitors into the country without the late president daniel ortega has agreed to an investigation into the political violence that has killed nearly one hundred eighty people since april but protest leaders say the government is refusing to show them copies of the invitation it is supposed to send to foreign investigators that's caused talks between the two sides to storm colombia's president elect event do k. has called for unity after winning sunday's runoff vote he's promised to rewrite the peace deal that the government signed with fox rebels in twenty sixteen.

turkish soldiers are patrolling the outskirts of the syrian city of man bridge as part of a deal with the u.s. earlier this month turkey and the u.s. agreed that kurdish y.p. g. forces should leave the city they've controlled man bitch since driving i saw out in twenty sixteen with the help of u.s. air support turkey considers the wipe e.g. a terrorist group more than a thousand doctors in australia have signed a petition calling for a refugee who is dying of lung cancer to be allowed into the country for specialist care the man known as ali is being held in the offshore detention center on the tiny pacific island of now rule and those are the headlines on al-jazeera now let's get you back to the system. really. i was an american realist in connecticut if you killed or you know i don't know. there's no physical evidence that links personal about the scene

i mean not bill kept part was 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 feelings off and go back to that. 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 use

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. i entertain 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 would 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 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 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 where her where have i intended to kill manhattan up college for i will be discussing my arrest from fiction time to present a fine of bunch of social justice people college students when you give

presentations like this does it stir up the motions and one hand it's cathartic but that all comes with a price i mean less my experience you know a motion i somehow 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 desk a mix 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 martin 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 of 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 you know.

who was doing it. what was it. what did she. doesn't know. cunningham was serving a life sentence for murdering a schoolteacher in one thousand nine hundred three. four years after he raped and murdered angela herrera. 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 it said that he didn't realize anybody that 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. didn't match me seven months before trial the results of that argument that was a good faith or the bottom drops out of that it was intentional. westchester county district attorney janet de fiori commissioned a report that broke down the systemic failings that led to desk of x. 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 a while 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 for a 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 it was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sexual penetration of a corpse her sentence thirteen to twenty five years. by two thousand and twelve lobato was running out of legal options and 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 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 the chance 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 of

here's the place of augustinian the thing 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 do test to see whose it was i tell you what it's not going to be it's not going to be semen from cure stood. 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 if 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 negotiations his defense team has finally secured

a private meeting with clark county district attorney steve wolfson 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 kidding 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 in the best of it geoffrey pleads for justice he pleads for those who are still in prison 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 in mn and which he insisted in housing me for about six months. traf 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 who automatically 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 save to talk to the police without benefit of a lawyer just because you're innocent i need to do is look at me and i 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. a certain stage for them to understand the go ahead a little bit. don't say you know you should really read somewhere that because i'm going to be saying you haven't. opportunity unless you're very careful to be coke lite if you come out and say hey this isn't all of better built by the sec and . our 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 stone walked right. 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 he what's the statute this is the legal statute that says we can do when we can't and i say look just between us you know that you have the power outside the box and co-housing on the facts right he then said if she plays kirsten was to be

released in six months it was what led her 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 doing what you're doing now i said absolutely not to work there are going to clear her name this is not justice. we asked steve wilson to comment on this story it turned down our request we got in touch with thomas townsend the lead detective in the case he also declined to comment bill kept part the prosecutor in both trials is 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 come 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 just as 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 hard and often hard to be a marsh truly gifted i mean on. there i think. i got it right and i think ok well maybe that's going to be. going on. and i have to track my. care benefits after. a rack mounted. yeah well we wish you the best anything you want to say before we go here's my say blazer to awesome job and keep your head up

look at do you think you think i'm really 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 to 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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