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i've. already. your police headquarters with a to homicide detective talking about her that you're going to need to you leave that up i just said you want your prior 5 minutes you're not going home tonight i can guarantee that. welcome back to wrongful conviction which you use and today we're going to be doing a deep dive into many issues as fascinating as it is terrifying which is the
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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 is fascinating in its own ways and jane while some thank you for convection happy to be here and jane is an attorney who is an expert on false confessions and 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. 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 and nobody really can tell the difference
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between a good confession and one that isn't the 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 innocent people i mean people who are sitting around in this room to confess to crimes they didn't commit. anytime you do an exoneration case where there's been a false confession it's like trying to write a tries to kill. 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.
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was a case we took about 2 and a half now maybe 3 years ago now and she was accused and 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 renee 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 kareem and i went to my landlord's house we were going to rob her the robbery goes bad and kareem steps or so it's us she's a good century can make it
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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. 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 the court was the cop on the case. just the way home 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 karim was afforded at the time of our crime 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
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confessing to going to rob the landlord with kareem and the defense been able to put that on her confession would have made no sense but the defense was never to. our goal is of course to get renee out of prison but it can take a really long time sometimes many years and 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 hearse the plan was i was going to go into the front door and karim 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 emily's fell to the floor and kind of went out if
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that happened he would be standing punching her here right. when cream head here in the face he not the wig off louise's head the wig landed on the floor in the kitchen but that's really the kitchen. he tried to tie louise up with the plastic already has 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 is correct and the phone cord is where the extra d.n.a. is ringback ringback. i'm just in the it's gene fisher byron alston rene lynch's attorney i have a call with her this morning. ok thanks. how how. i.
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call if. you live in earthquake. i. i know it's hard. rene went to trial she testified but very incoherently she was high during the trial. and you know it was she was not a good witness for herself she recanted right away afterwards and her confession is that is it was coerced when i talked to him about this they're like well i would never cross
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a contests where 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 circumstances of interrogation we are all there have been some training detectives i've spoken to who say i can get anybody to confess to many of the lobos that they have a 95 percent confession right but 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 the woman and they go delay the confessions trumped the d.n.a. changes everything it sometimes i'd like in the final product of
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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 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 a forced confession 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
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going with the story that they did together how can they be permitted to go forward with assyria of a case that they know is not true they made the trial basically matcher. it just makes me so jaded and really disgusted with the district attorney's office is 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 bernays 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
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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. 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 and interned at i.p.s. which is really you know like a $20000.00 a year preschool up by the un and it was a code teacher who accuses meltzer of molesting all the kids in the class and he's
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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 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
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through the hole when they finally are recording him he's doubting himself you know he's he's wondering did i do this. by. humans. rachel ferrari and i'm an 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. one of 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 happened. you know well it's
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a feel and remember this and to go around a few moments about. and then. present to me that i had. missed as i was. present in the you know and so. i had taken. its hands during play time and playing in her own mind. i can still remember shorts and. you know for sure if for them that or question or if you call them. and so what when you say given pleasure at one time that was central. yeah it would have to be. i don't know you know.
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my memory i mean it's like there's no they have it and if you read out and they meant i did that's your handwriting and it just leaning over briefly because it looks like it's been changed in any way. and that's your signature at the bottom because if you read this out here today you'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 to the truth but now to tom's 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 suit 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 it the judge just 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
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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 happened but it took i mean it almost killed him. my. parents out of sexual abuse involving very young children were brought to the attention. our us tom. if you tell everything to dismiss this case after our nation is gathered in our stands now. we have a chance to have this. is opposed by mr dinh oh man it's historical fact is awful for what dansko was it appointed. its function to want to install a c.p.a.
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so we 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 salem and sit for it to pass assess just to listen for what to put in a new ear and which is here in new york i can't for. the forefront see treating its own stores up. in the most false confession cases there falsely confessing 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
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a way to start i mean you're diving right in at the deep end there yeah you know the circumstances at play in that case were huge amount of pressure on the police and the authorities to make arrests and make them stick to majors but they couldn't be infamous central park jogger case in 1989 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 but at that time for nearly 7 years in prison and one of them corey why. was one the most notorious crimes in the history of new york city it was a crime in which a woman who was a wealthy preside investment banker was out jogging at dusk and was dragged into the woods central park and almost beaten to death and it was front
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page news every day everywhere and they were out to get arrests and they got him. and. when you get to the false confessions in that case it was a classic you know. mismatch they were totally overmatched under represented if represented at all i don't know what they could pick or 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 miranda rights. this is very very serious this may be murder we don't know what. i want to know exactly what you see and exactly what and exactly what you said.
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after seeing those pictures i'm sure that you can see. why. it is hard for people to understand how this can. help out the. 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 wise confessed to get out of this bad 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 home and 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
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who were present were surprised that the boys were arrested after their statements every one of her was going home right right well you know what that sounds crazy right here thought you were gone or confess to a rape and go home right but you know that when false confessors were interviewed afterward and they've been exonerated and the 1st question everybody wants those i don't understand why don't you confront the most typical response is because i want to go home right in this and people often say afterwards 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 it to the last 3 they think that claiming they have to in a that bluff is a way to scare the criminal into submission it may be right but if the person you're talking to is not the criminal but an innocent person that the law becomes
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a promise of future exoneration paradoxically makes it easier to confess right right ok 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 probably get an order to take a sample from you. and then we'll compare it to tests oh it's. all right because you're in a position now where you know that there's an a b. . which. you'd be better off to tell us about it now or the stairs instead of saying something that's true or it's. one of the things i think they made you say it 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 he just made it up i don't know where it 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
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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 a poem i suddenly really did not exist in my room did not exist as i would just heard i just felt going to there probably exist in my world which is just for the hurt i've. formed with the mother who was with the most of them by it was a it was a room but just the glow who would guess my way nor me. that was were it was going to be true or it was world hardware at all. so was his shop or were. the. welcome to doha from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the
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more news here in order to return to witness. and to write yeah. i bet 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 he do in the living room look at this photo look i want to hear oh yeah. it certainly doesn't fit with renee's no confession no i want to see a real place where people i think you heard that some wishful thinking mike i don't
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think there is a real police report i mean. i just don't. know maybe they sort of knew there were these confessions was not so good or not true and so they didn't really want karim because they didn't. really believed 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 right. when taking on a case like renee is 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
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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. 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 newsgroup. 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
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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 confession and then the extra evidence because there's no fish. nicol evidence the corroboration to the confession is a snitch. you know little 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. the. call i get we're all playing calls these aren't i hope so please
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please pick a little more names due in 25 to life for something she didn't do and we really are are hitting a lot of of dead ends and rockwell's a huge going to be a huge helped us and i'm very much thank you sir. but i know why if they can i have no practical ok. oh. you. ok then who. do you mind if i said there. is only a little damned good that's ok do you know brett come on your. own history before you got your body will feel fine no we're trying we're trying. do you remember interacting with any of the police officers back then mr g.q. may as june was name was very is in some of. my impression looking back
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thank you all here she's guilty well she's guilty and he go make sure you know you can sometimes it was a bloody crime so now we know i was much of the d.n.a. so these are all somebody else to be in right now. it 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.
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i just want to talk to you because i know helping renee trying to get her out can we come by what dr just talked to me. alters thank you so much. we need to ask the most and the most important thing to so how she was to what her actions what the police who are. living now with young right with on drugs you know an ally for me every day and he didn't have a car with a. good promise you anything like where you going to get out let me go with you right right i want to get out and so you actually did get out thank you we really appreciate it. ok so that's good that's helpful.
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why don't. you. well at least 3 years on one of them will render one toy i was arrested in the year 2000 and accused a murderer of a young schoolteacher in denver he's 14 years old friends when this happened and he
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is tiny like maybe 110 pounds. he killed or near. the overlap between meltzer and lorenzo is mounted they tell him there's these 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 well i'm a shoe print expert and your shoe matches the print at the crime scene was untrue. the moment.
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you feel. in the united states police a permitted to lie about evidence. and tell you right now this afternoon we have done something. really think long and fast. 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 still there is a book review they're not ready
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to say vote for it isn't it is it. rather that the real issues that you are surely there in that are the same for it. so you get out you mean 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 a 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 what 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 resident. i don't think you're going to have a gun. i didn't want to jack the car in the one that did.
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the communication moves in one direction it is designed to leave the person the suspect would think that the police don't think this is such a big deal right and therefore i'll be treated with leniency ok so one of my 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 with their i'm going to go. you. know 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. in ruins of why were you there. why you're a sleaze house with no. resolutions and no blood to keep your name here 1st
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nigger jr who kicked you in the head of course the building a story for him to tell. or is it you know the writer a huge. shoes wrote part of the dreaded shoes. around so was it your in. 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 contained back. 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. you made that up i just stand there watch your prior 5 minutes you wait that tough you know. you all know you're not going home tonight i can guarantee
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that you are from. and they do not put you in juvenile hall for it which will be boys you know. you read to madiba talk now or say goodbye to your mom it's pretty clear and your cousin and your sister and your girlfriend and your life . you read it so you won't get by. you ready. room. what can an innocent person do next great themself in the situation anything i guess you could hold out right for ever just hold out. doesn't everybody have
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a breaking point so why must. 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 a 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 and she's been in
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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 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. but one hears 6 months i mean i'm not doing the time it's my mom she wants us to last oh oh oh oh fortune i've called saw her yeah i'll side of the bars just have to be patient wait you know. now i don't resign or stand how you could live without for so long because that feels. just know she's in there.
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this is some fair book as they all know you just go with the cars of the law of the sun for you know. not. just try to make a better way for markets for much over them make sure that all have to suffer and endure what our own drum oh no no of us come alive almost from the dawn for us she was she with us from our right what if it's hard to get out of those times. but you should be proud of yourself i'm sure she's proud of you. and all them of the studs of the of the states to everybody and. i hope you reunite in person. i hope that we can make that happen for you.
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be a. thank you. hi this is jane fisher mary also an attorney for renee lynch we have a call. oh you're going on and on on. harming good morning how are you. now in your heart. out on me. medication here i only half hour track. all i
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care a. give me a. stroke very. well. or. all of us can catch you trying to play some together it's 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 announced i hope it's a good one but there won't be any and.
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developed thousands and no miss of the season is nigger mags and it. didn't. seem to make her. a student in the system is missing the biggest 1000 tons as to when not do this thank. you really. that got close. to. good and somehow you. missed 1st and america had those vehicles and i tried to have only met.
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the dude you're going to give me some of them. does he in any way blame himself for i think so. patrol ending and confer saying 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 of that tach to the state even after they were exonerated right people are not quite 100 percent sure right yet
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the confession is so powerful that even after it's supposed to evaporate. 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 he's never going to have the mental peace and rest that you know you and i can probably accomplish sometimes but 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 cherry. you
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don't know what to do or. will be the morning. star over here. starchy johnno lobel you know whatever the journey may be. if you're going out so as to stand in the house you know from wonder. 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 to people about evidence when you lie to people about reality you can
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change their perceptions can change their memories and you can change just about every aspect of their cognitive function everybody assumes that everybody's morning everybody is pretty and. their names case we've now gather 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. who wish and grandma was here a day. for the knowledge. that. any love life.
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