tv False Confessions Al Jazeera January 16, 2020 3:00pm-4:01pm +03
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thank you. for your customers a lot of people but has the violence actually got worse rewind stray bullets on al-jazeera. the of the the i. have imus was here today and to hell with the top stories on al-jazeera russian and syrian warplanes have resumed attacks on syria's last remaining rebel held province at least 21 people have been killed in recent days and that's despite a ceasefire that was supposed to have started on sunday the white helmets rescue group has recorded more than a dozen violations of that cease fire cocktail of has her day on reports. i the damage caused by one of several air strikes in the northwest province of it but survivors trying to salvage what's left i emergency crews combed the rubble to recover the body of
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a child was there civilians were among the casualties and it lips city i was like did it have a jihad in the afternoon it lapses he was targeted by stick or 23 jets they hit the industrial area and alcohol markets caution must of those hurt have serious injuries. in a nearby hospital friends console a father grieving his son was a ceasefire which started on sunday was shattered on one so. 6 i was in syrian and russian jets attacked it that city as well as several rebel held town was the ceasefire was brokered by turkey which supports the rebels and russia which backed the syrian government's 9 month offensive thank fighters are going to al qaeda are the strongest forces in these areas home to around
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3000000 civilians according to the u.n. close 240-0000 syrians have been forced from their homes and it lives in the past 10 weeks no time no shelter no food people are starving to death in this governor and they're not being bald they're dying because they're hungry the kremlin says it's targeted rebels who've attacked civilian government held areas and what's supposed to be a so-called deescalation zone i russia and turkey are reported to have been a go she to be a sampling of a secure zone for the displaced during the winter and russia has announced humanitarian corridors have already been established to allow people in its lips to cross over into government held territory. it's unclear how many have chosen to go . beyond al-jazeera now despite international pressure to abide by its 2015 nuclear deal commitments iran says it will continue to enrich uranium in a televised speech president hassan rouhani said tehran has now surpassed the limit
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set under that agreement his statement comes just days after 3 e.u. nations that were party to the deal they want to dispute mechanism that could lead to more sanctions being imposed on iran. when the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear deal contacted you know the party and expressed our preparedness to fulfill our obligations however today we in terms of the nuclear power we have no limit and we are in a much better situation compared to before the deal i would you really i'm in richmond today it's much higher than that stipulated in the deal we had signed we cannot see. we will reciprocate. turkey's president says the deployment of troops to libya has begun earlier this month the turkish parliament approved a plan to support the internationally recognized government of tripoli its fighting forces loyal to war khalifa haftar the us 'd house of representatives has delivered
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articles of impeachment against donald trump to the senate for a trial he's accused of abuse of power for threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for political favor the trial is expected to start on tuesday mornings of another volcanic eruption in the philippines have forced thousands more people to abandon their homes towns near the towell kaner have been devastated by falling ash and evacuation centers across batangas province on wasteful. the u.s. and china have signed the 1st phase of a deal to ease their trade war china has promised to increase u.s. imports and strengthen intellectual property rules the u.s. in return will remove some tariffs on chinese goods well those are the headlines to join me for more news here after witness stay with us.
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oh. you were a police headquarters with you all star detective talking about her then you're really into it you leave that up i just stand here watch you cry or 5 minutes you're not going home tonight i can guarantee you that. welcome back to wrongful conviction when jason today we're going to be doing a deep dive into an issue that is as fascinating as it is terrifying which is the phenomenon of false confessions and my guest today is going to be jane fisher by reality and who's currently working on 4 cases involving false confessions and each
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is fascinating its own way so jane welcome thank you for convection happy to be here and jane is an attorney who is an expert on false confessions so jane how did you get into this work i was a public defender in manhattan here in new york city for about 3 years and we saw a lot of police misconduct you know we were doing arraignments up until 1 am in the morning and you see people beat up or you know people whose cases get dismissed who get no compensation so my husband and i left the legal aid society with the hopes of doing civil rights work. my name is old castle i'm a distinguished professor of psychology at john jay college of criminal justice once a false confession is taken the case is closed nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't. problem with all of this is that there are tactics that can be used to get innocent people and i don't just mean vulnerable
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innocent people i mean people who are sitting around in this world to confess to crimes they didn't commit. any time you do an exoneration case where there's been a false confession it's like trying to write a tries to. everybody's already against you the person's been convicted by a jury the judge thinks he's guilty the jury thinks he's guilty now you have to convince everybody that they're wrong. so a case that you're deeply invested in is a case of an alien ship who has been in prison for 20 years renee lynch. was a case we took about 2 and a half now maybe 3 years ago now and she was accused and
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convicted of killing her landlord in buffalo new york in 1995. and it's also obviously a false confession case the police are going crazy and they can't solve it 18 months go by and renee's connection to the victim was that it was her landlord and so they are start looking into rent a who at the time was heavily addicted to drugs crack cocaine and. she gets arrested for something else and they start interrogating her and she confesses to killing her landlord with this guy karim so she says karim and i went to my landlord's house we were going to rob her the robbery goes bad and karim steps or so it's us she's a good century can make it a felony murder being present during the commission of a crime and somebody gets killed we started sort of doing you know just regular google searches on the players' names the detectives and everything in this t.v.
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show women behind bars comes up and they've done an episode on bernie's case where they got in the in the prison and interviewed her and then interviewed this joseph court was the cop on the case just the way her body slumped when she decided to go you just saw it was time to tell the truth. i believe her confession is kind of nonsense there's inconsistency between the physical evidence and what she says and during the show he says well i mean we knew that corinne walker was in florida at the time of our crime my partner looked into it and kareem was in florida at the time of our like well. i guess they knew karim walker was in florida at the time the crime then rene's confession can't possibly be true because she's confessing to going to rob the landlord with kareem at the defense been able to put that on her confession would have made no sense but the defense was never told.
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our goal is of course to get renee out of prison but it can take a really long time sometimes many years one of the 1st things we do in cases like this is to comb through the confession and find all that in consistencies to clearly show that the confession is false. and there's a cream walker drove me to 90 longmeadow and i am her. and was i was going to go into the front door and cream was going to come up the back door. he was going to tie her up with a piece of white extension cord that he brought with him at that time kareem hit louise in the side of the face and louise fell to the floor in kind of went out if that happened he would be standing punching her here right when chremes head here in the face he knocked the wig off louise's head a wig landed on the floor in the kitchen but that's really the kitchen. he tried to
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tie louise up with the plastic already had then cream comes from behind louise he stabbed her at least twice however we know it's 8 times. so the only thing she gets right is that the witness knocked off that there's a plastic cord involved in this case that's correct and the phone cord is where the extra d.n.a. is ringback. i'm just in the it's jean fisher byron also in renee lynch's attorney i have a call with her this morning. ok thanks. hi how. are. you live for quite right.
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i know it's hard. rene went to trial she testified but very incoherently she was high during the trial. you know it was she was not a good witness for herself she recanted right away afterwards and her confession is that as it was coerced when i talked to him about this they're like well i would never prosecute that's what people say i've been talking about this for 30 years and that's the 1st thing everybody says i get it but it wouldn't happen to me. it's not one time the person that gives a false confession we are all vulnerable under the circumstance of interrogation we
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are all there have been some trained detectives i've spoken to who say i can get anybody to confess to him many of them will boast that they have a 95 percent confession right but it's conceivable that a lesser of a lesser near perfect at identifying the perpetrator that is every suspect you identify is the perpetrator right if you've got a confession rate at that level you're producing a whole lot of false confessions we were in a lynch when i talked to her about it she explained to me i was so shocked that they convicted me she said because there was no evidence of a confession so powerful it can stand alone so here's the jury on the one hand they've got the confessions of a woman and they're going to delay the confessions trumped the d.n.a. changes everything it sometimes i've likened the final product of a confession to a hollywood production it is scripted by the police theory of the case it is rehearsed and then lights action camera ready to go. and that's what the jury
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sees they don't see the whole production they just see the final i don't see how. a judge or jury to look past the forced conversion is that ocean approached. the internet is case we're trying to get permission to test all the old evidence from d.n.a. but to do that we have to collect as much information about her innocence as we possibly can. go back and interview old witnesses collect documents go back to the crime scene. i keep coming back to this thing that the cops knew he was in florida and kept going with the story that they did together how can they be permitted to go forward with a sciri of a case that they know is not true they made the trial basically matcher.
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it just makes me so jaded and really disgusted with the district attorney's offices that i feel like you know the you know they're supposed to be at the top of the chain right there it's supposed to be the ones making sure the cops made mistakes or people below the cops made mistakes then they're the ones who are responsible for fixing it why not do d.n.a. testing we're not infallible we can all make mistakes i mean renee's going to be in prison for the rest of her life why not just check in rene's case it's especially frustrating because i mean they certainly believe that this was done not the stabbing was not done by her right so there is a set i mean they're basically admitting that they have a cold case and there's a murder out there and they still don't want to do it. we have a number of documented cases in which the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior. which is.
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a whole nother level of insanity and some of them believe it. for a long time afterwards right. here. in the melted thompson case we had he was a danish inturn who came. to danish he was a college student studying to become a teacher and he came interned at i.p.s. which is really you know like a $20000.00 a year preschool up by the u.n. and it was a co teacher who accuses meltzer of molesting all the kids in the class and he's on the cover of the daily news they take his focus his facebook profile pictures him with his niece on his shoulders so they put that on the cover of the daily news and write sex monster and they go arrest him in the morning and bring him into the
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station and they have a female cop interrogate him she tells him while you know we have video of you molesting these kids which they had videos but he's not molesting anybody so they had this woman who accused him had taken videos of him in the classroom interacting normally with children and so either the cops hadn't watched it or they had watched it and were blatantly lying to him but there was no video of him molesting kids but he hears that right and he thinks holy crap well if i'm on video i must have done it right they let him continue to believe this lie that he's caught red handed on tape molesting these kids and i think that that you know he started you could tell through the whole when they finally are recording him he's doubting himself you know he's he's wondering did i do this.
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i think you can. be. rachel ferrari you know and i mean assistant district attorney in new york county mr thompson. can you tell me why you're here today yes. i'm here because i'm in the court of. all my colleagues and. for inappropriate. behavior with kids ok so why don't you tell me. probably anything how this started what happened you know what. you know well this. and remember this and to go around the room was about. and then.
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present to me a. mess as i was at present and you know and so. i had taken. its hands during play time and place in her own mind. going for a measure. you know for sure if for them that your question or your. so what when you say gave him pleasure at one time that was central. and it would have to be. i don't know you know. my memory everyone listening to this know that it is your announces to mend it that's your handwriting and it is just putting it over briefly because it looks like it's been changed in any way. and that's your
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signature at the bottom of page if you read this out here today we're going to show it to camera. i don't even think people in the u.s. really get that the police are allowed to lie to you i think most people would think that if i am speaking to a police officer he's time with the truth but mounted toms i mean in denmark it's illegal for the police to lie to you so he really i think was was you know really says extra susceptible to something like that it took us filing the civil rights to to even get access to these tapes the district attorney wouldn't give it to us when the criminal case was pending we asked that quote we move for a court order to get at the judge's wouldn't give it to us but they sat on these tapes for 8 months he had this case hanging over his head and they knew that there was nothing in the tapes right and because was that was the only evidence there was yes luckily mel to never got convicted right we were able to stop it before that
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happened but it took i mean it almost killed him. it's very serious allegations of sexual abuse involving very young children were brought to the attention. in. our us tom. if you tell everything to dismiss this case after our nation is gathered in our stands now. we have to stand and. this. is opposed by mr didden own demands he still in fact is awful for dansko us that appointed him and its function to want to install a c.p.a. so he put in a treaty between the elite sport from sin no one say it's going to help put the 2 end of the good in cement city for it to pass says the student forward to put in
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a new e.f. which is here in new york i can't for. the forefront see treating its 3 stories up . in most false confession cases there falsely from passing to an actual crime that they didn't commit in this case he was confessing to something that never even happened right as you said so poignantly i mean his life was ruined and he didn't even get convicted. you know the central park jogger case was my 1st interaction with false confessions our firm represented corey wise on his civil rights case i'm not that's a hell of a way to start i mean you're diving right into the deep end there yeah you know the circumstances at play in that case were huge amount of pressure on the police and
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the authorities to make arrests and make them stick to majors but they couldn't be infamous central park jogger case in 989 the rape and beating of a female jogger made headlines nationwide the teenagers are confessed but later claimed that their confessions have been covered. when the actual perpetrator stepped forward the 5 men were finally exonerated the best time for that year was 7 years in prison and one of them corey was 30. 1 the most notorious crimes in the history of new york city it was a crime in which a woman who was a wealthy upper east side investment banker was out jogging at dusk and was dragged into the woods in central park and almost beaten to death and it was front page news every day everywhere and they they're out to get arrested and they got him. when you get to the false confession in that case
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it was a classic you know. mismatch they were totally overmatched underrepresented if represented at all i don't know if you could the core even have anyone in the room with now is going to be 16 so he was considered an adult sadly and so his mom was not allowed in there and they you know had given them lawyers they all waived their their miranda rights. to that. this is very very serious this neighborhood we don't know if this woman is there. i want to know exactly where you are and exactly what and exactly what you said. after seeing those pictures i'm sure that you can see how important this point is
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to you know what. it is hard for people to understand how this can happen how how they could produce a confession to something they didn't do and it really is a complicated set of stories there is no one reason. you know corey was confessed to get out of this that situation he was under intense pressure for many many hours right he was likely be told that others were giving stories and that he needed to cooperate in order to go it is very telling in the central park 5 case that every one of them every one of the boys and every one of the parents who were present were surprised that the boys were arrested after their statements every one of them thought i was going home well you know what that sounds crazy right here thought you were gone or confess to
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a rape and go home right but you know that one false confessors were interviewed after. and they've been exonerated and the 1st question everybody wants those i don't understand why don't you confirm the most typical response because i want to go home right in this and people often say after wards you know i was so tired i was so stressed i figured let me sign this confession it'll all work itself out in the end the detectives often say you know we have d.n.a. we're going to send them to the lab. they think that claiming they have to in a that bluff is a way to scare the criminal into submission that may be right but if the person you're talking to is not the criminal but an innocent person that blog becomes a promise of future exoneration paradoxically makes it easier to confess right running cade courtley we're going to do some tests we're going to take blood samples from a lot of different people. right i just want to know that if we do that we will
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probably get an order to take a sample from you. and then we'll compare it to tests. because you're in a position now where if you know that there's going to be a match. that you'd be better off if you tell us about it now or the stairs instead of saying something that's natural or is this. one of the things i think they made you say was that you cut her on the legs. how did you come up with that i don't know. came from no i don't know she'd made it up i don't know i came from no i don't know. like why does someone do that right that's what everybody wants to know and they're liable to happen to you that well had to do was play well as a devil's playground because i think most people would like to think i would like to think to myself like i would never do that but did you ever say to yourself damn why did i tell these life why do i tell these lies and put myself in the region
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that exists in my really did not exist as i was just her i just felt going to there probably exist in my world which is just for the hurt that i did. for me with the mother who was with the most of them by it was a it was a room but there's a glow or yes my way nor me. i was worried that it was going to be true it was one of which word all. source's shop owner were. almost the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system when you walk through each and every luxury or layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on say retention has to start from day one whether again you're into tension or your own parser and this is a dialogue everyone has a voice so far there are studies that support our coverage will be varying accounts
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there's a very bright young. i ben what happens here is she says he knocks her out on the kitchen floor and they're like man doesn't work doesn't work renee not good enough didn't didn't he do in the living room look at this photo look at what happens here oh yeah. it certainly doesn't sit with renee is not concise no i want to see a real place before i think you are some wishful thinking michael i don't think there is a real the police report i mean. i just don't. maybe they sort of knew they were names confession was not so good or not true and so
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they didn't really want karim because they didn't really believe that he was there . that or that it happened like that and so if they get him in there and then they could end up with nobody. back in the day i believe that amherst was you know in their ranking safest place in america lived oh really so their image was getting tarnished you know so became very little. one taking on a case like rene's the danger is always the case evidence or other crime scene evidence has not been preserved. if there's no crime scene evidence or case evidence. then there's nothing to d.n.a. test and if there's no d.n.a. to test it's extremely hard to prove that your client is innocent.
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that's from the. rain. in rene's case it was a very bloody crime scene the murder weapon was never found but there was a purse that had a bloody fingerprint in it and there was a drawer in the bedroom with a bloody fingerprint on it they d.n.a. tested some things but not those and the only d.n.a. found at the crime scene was the victims. from the new bridge. you know. i think out of 41 pieces of evidence they tested 7. for d.n.a. and so you know they're in trouble right at trial because you can't get convicted on your own confession alone so they go and they try to round up jailhouse snitches but only one who worked. so it was her confession and a jailhouse snitch which is so common in false confession cases and you have the
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confession and then the extra evidence because there's no physical evidence the corroboration to the confession is a snitch. you know with a woman her name a. long time ago. so i'm trying to get her out of prison because i don't believe that she did what she was accused of i need to talk with raquel they were in bedford together makes. that. call like they were all playing calls we are i hope so please please because there's bernie's doing 25 to life for something she didn't do and we really are are hitting a lot of of dead ends and raquel's a huge going to be a huge helped us and i'm very much thank you sir.
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i know by being there you could not have no practical ok can. you. ok. do you mind if i said there. is ok. good that's ok do you know brett. i don't have a stream for you cause your body will feel fine there while we're writing we're trying to. do you remember interacting with any of the police officers back then mr g.q. may as june when his name was very is in some of. my impression looking back thank you. here she's going to eat well she is going to and he go make sure renée goossens time it was a bloody crime so now we know i was my hero even d.n.a.
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so these are all somebody else. to be in that house. that was one of the things that's one of the things that we hope to be able to do is retest the d.n.a. there's knowledge she has no chance some cases we get and we look at them and we even if we believe the person is innocent we can say well i mean there's just for a variety of reasons nothing we can do there's something we can do here but not a lot of people get exonerated. hello. and yeah it's just work out. i just want to talk to you because i'm helping rene trying to get her out can we come by what do i have to just talk to me. oh please thank you so much.
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we need to ask the most and the most important thing to me is a how she was to what her actions what the police were. living with young right with andrea you know in our lives for me every day and he didn't have a car with a ok good for her promise you anything like where you going to get out let me out so we're with you right right i want to get out and so you actually did get out and thank you we really appreciate it. ok so that's good that's helpful. to her. why don't. you.
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well at least 3 years on one of you. will render one toy i was arrested in the year 2000 and accused of a murder of a young schoolteacher in denver he's 14 years old renzo when this happened and he is tiny like maybe 110 pounds. he killed in. the overlap between meltzer and lorenzo is mounted they tell him there's these
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videotapes that show him abusing children which there aren't in lorenzo's they actually go as far as to have him take his shoes off and they do this whole charade where this very angry cop comes back in with the shoe and says wow i'm a shoe print expert and your shoe matches the print at the crime scene was untrue. the body. of obama. you know. you feel.
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in the united states police a permitted to lie about evidence. and say right out of order that we have something. to think long and fast about. that is a shocking discovery to most people most western countries don't permit it the u.s. supreme court permits it so consequently you have 2 detectives making it seem as if we have independent evidence they sometimes will get very specific about what that evidence is telling us that you are involved in something they've already started that is shaping process and the mother already is believing it we're still going to see both of you they're not ready. to save over it isn't it is it. rather that the real issues that you need to show you that are in that are the same breath that you
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get out you may mistake so he just introduced the word mistake he's about to develop this theme that enables lorenzo to admit some degree of involvement while minimizing his own role it's part of a package of techniques that in which you communicate to his suspect that i think you're a good person i understand what you've been through i sympathize with what you've been through often you hear normalising statements like you know water if i were in your situation i would have done the same thing and all by the way i don't think you intended to do this i think it was an accident or maybe your friends put you up to it or maybe you were provoked there you need to kill that one red zone i don't think you're going to have a gun. i didn't want to jack the car in the one that did. the communication moves in one direction it is designed to leave the person the suspect and think that the police don't think this is such a big deal right now and therefore will be treated with leniency ok so one of my
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choices either i can be the accomplice who refuses to speak or i can admit to what they want me to admit to given all of the minimisation that they've given me and enjoy the benefit of that but there are going to go. you. go how do you presume they're going to do that they look at how much they have communicated already he now knows so much about this crime that whether he was there or had anything to do with it or not he now knows enough about it to give you a description. and renzo why were you there. why you're a sleaze house it was not. the reason you see things in that little computer and here for hours yesterday our man who kicked you in the head of course the building a story for him to tell. there is you know the right road and those shoes wrote part of the dreaded shoes. around so was it your in.
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your job is just right around he's now being set up so that when he's ready to give a statement he knows exactly what that statement should convey that he has the gate he was kicked in the head shoe dragging her through the blood you know he's got it all so later a judge and a jury is going to watch the final confession and they're going to be so impressed and unable to look past that because they keep on asking themselves what happened you know those things if he was in there right. stare me down oh you made that up i just stand there watch your prior 5 minutes you wait that up you know you. you know you all know you're not going home tonight i can guarantee that the reform and they do not put you in juvenile hall for murder which would be boys you know. you read to madiba talk now or say
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goodbye to your mom it's a pretty clear and your cousin and your sister and your girlfriend and your life. you read into any longer. you ready. room. what can an innocent person do next themself in the situation anything i guess you could hold out right forever just hold out. doesn't everybody have a breaking point so why must.
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he was in prison for 14 years so he got out a 28 he was in solitary confinement for 4 years because when he goes into grown up prison he's 14 and he can't be in with the general population so he goes to solitary confinement for 4 years for $14.00 to $18.00 lorenzo was exonerated and we have a civil rights too pending for him and the. opposition are you know they're they're moving to have the case dismissed based on qualified immunity for the police. so we talked about how out of these 4 cases you know corey and melt and lorenzo have all been exonerated by rene you know her case remains active and she's been in prison now for 20 years her son grew up without a mom she you know he has she's grandkids now that she's never met other than on a phone through glass. she said to heart attacks while she's been
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in prison and is probably not getting the right medical treatment for that you know we're just hoping that you know time could be on our side and we can get her out sooner rather than later but i mean she is a. a life that's. wasted. 20 years 6 months i mean i'm not doing the time it's my mom she wants us to last oh oh oh oh fortune wife calls on yeah i'll side of ours just have to be patient right you know. and i don't know as the understand how you could live without for so long a car that feels. just know she's in there. this is unfair bad but good as they are oh no you just go with the cars of the law of
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the sun for you know right. now just try to make a better word for markets for much over in the mid short of it all have to suffer and endure with our own drawn oh oh no of us come alive almost from the door for us she was she with the former all right well for me it's hard to get out of those times. you should be proud of yourself i'm sure she's proud of you. and all them of the stud so the mistakes to everybody and. i hope you reunite in person . i hope that we can make that happen for you. be it. thank you.
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hi this is jane fisher mary alice an attorney for renee lynch we have a call. oh you're going on and on on. morning good morning how are you. going to. how in your heart. medication here i am half hour tracking. all i. care a. but if they ask. dr gregory. or. i know of us cattle you want to play some together
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is ok i understand it's so difficult and i know that it's taking a lot of time but. we don't want to mess it up renee we are only going to get one shot at best. so just hang in there. i promise you there will be a noun i hope it's a good one but there won't be any and. develop thousands and no miss of the season is nigger mags and it.
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just he in any way blame himself for i think so. patrol ending and confessing they all do that but my own observations from talking to wrongfully convicted people is those who were wrongfully convicted by confession are not doing as well the stigma they attach to themselves they feel weak and idle stupid they don't understand what happened how to done that to themselves and even when the convictions overturned if the reason they were convicted was a confession as opposed to something else the stigma that tach to the state even after they were exonerated right people are not quite 100 percent sure right yet the confession is so powerful than even ever it's supposed to evaporate.
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so corey today is he's living well right he got a huge settlement but it doesn't take away those demons in his head you know he's he was in from 16 to almost 30 so what are you now when you come out i he is never going to have the mental peace and rest that you know you and i can probably accomplish sometimes but he he has lost his whole family. there's no relationship with them really. and that's something that they then why p.b. in the city in the prosecutor's took away from him right that money can't replace. when you come back to society you don't you don't know when to do it in charity. you don't know what to do or. with a bit of morning. star over here. start the journal of the you know whatever journey may be. if you're going out so as you
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stand in the house you know from under. they have free. restorable false confessions not just a story that gets at the question of why in god's name did an innocent person confess to a crime he or she didn't commit it's a 2nd story in the 2nd story line is how come the prosecutor the judge the jury the appeals court all missed it. and there is now ample research actual cases laboratory studies field studies and in 100 plus years of basic psychology tells us when you lie the people about evidence when you lie to people about reality you can change their perceptions can change their memories you can change just about every aspect of their cognitive function everybody is human everybody is mortal everybody is pretty and. in the.
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numinous case we've now gathered all the information we could possibly find and we're ready to file motions in court but this is only the 1st step in a long long journey. as last decades of her life for something she didn't do that she deserves to spend every minute of the rest of it with her family. the reason grandma was here the day the war the molly will. not see. any love life.
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hello again welcome back to international weather forecast we're here across south america we are watching a cold front making its way to the north and with it a lot of thunderstorms a lot of wind as well as hail across much of southern brazil and into southern paraguay today and into tomorrow as well heavy rain could be leading system localized flooding over the next you hours and we could be watching this very carefully as it makes its way towards the north and south hollow you'll be seeing the rain tonight and into tomorrow morning and for rio it is going to be on friday with heavy rain showers and thunderstorms attempt a few about $32.00 degrees well here across the western part of net states as well as canada watches system coming in out of the pacific and with that we're going to
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