tv Witness False Confessions Al Jazeera January 25, 2021 3:00pm-4:01pm +03
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won't apply to u.s. citizens and residents nations affected include brazil the u.k. and most countries south africa will also be added to that list new zealand has reported its 1st community case in months which was contracted in quarantine is believed to be the south african strain of the virus germany's health minister says berlin expects e.u. regulators to approve the qubit $1000.00 vaccine developed by astra zeneca and the university of oxford on friday as concerns grow about the more infectious u.k. variant spreading rapidly in germany the mccain has more now from berlin. isolated cases instances of this variant were 1st reported some time ago but it's clear that the mere existence of the variant in germany now is really causing great concern to the ministers whose job it is to tabulate the information but then also use that information to make policy certainly the minister at the chancellery so
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a person who works on a day to day basis in close proximity with angle americal was saying on german media yesterday evening that he believes quite soon that the british identified variants of the variant of the virus 1st identified in the united kingdom is soon going to become the dominant variant the dominant strain in this country what's also interesting is that here in berlin itself we now have an incidence of the new variant the very 1st event that occurred in the u.k. being causing an outbreak in a hospital not that far away from where i'm broadcasting right now there are suggestions that perhaps 20 people had tested positive for the new variant but that the authorities at that hospital having now to test the entire population of that hospital more than 1500 people having to be tested we know that more than $500.00 have already been tested in the balance the remaining balance will be tested today but the fear is that the outbreak people know about it now but the fear is how long
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illegally detained in a facility in a place that is not guys that it which is his home which is not a prison facility so he needs to be they need to be released immediately and the police and security and military guarding his home needs to be removed but the lawyer representing the state on the other hand said that he is not under the category of security forces they say that what he said that what the forces are providing is because of security reasons 10 miners have died in northeastern china after being trapped underground for 2 weeks they were among the 20 people caught in up last a gold mine in the province of shandong 11 at been pulled to safety one person is still missing. the indian army says there's been a minor faceoff between their troops and chinese forces it happened in nakoula area in the northeastern states of sic him last week china as i said india to show
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restraint will use in 25 minutes up next it's witness season. your police headquarters with you also detective talking about her that you're really. you leave that up i just stand here and watch you cry or 5 minutes you're not going home tonight i can guarantee you that. welcome back to wrongful conviction which today we're going to be doing a deep dive into an issue that isn't as fascinating as it is terrifying which is
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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 is fascinating in 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 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 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. it society with the hopes of doing civil rights work. my name is 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. any time you do an exoneration case where there's been a false confession it's like trying to write a trice a cocktail. 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 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
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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 and 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 court was the cop on the case just the way her body. 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 like well. i guess they knew kareem walker was in florida at the time the crime then rene's confession can't possibly be true because she's confessing to
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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 renay 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 one out if
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that happened he would be standing punching her here right when cream 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 the kitchen. he tried to 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 is jean fisher byron alston renee lynch's attorney i have a call with her this morning. ok thinks. oh. oh. oh oh. oh oh
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oh oh. 00000000 why are quite right. i know it's hard. rene went to trial she testified but very incoherent way 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 is it was coerced when i talked to him about this they're like well this i would never cross a confess what people say i've been talking about this for 30 years and that's the
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1st thing everybody says i get it but it wouldn't happen to me. it's not one kind of person that gives a false confession we are all vulnerable under the circumstance of interrogation we are all there been some trained 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've likened 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. the judge or jury to look past the forced conversion is that i'm sure the process. in her name 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
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with the sciri 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 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 of 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 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 well 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 had 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 hole when they finally are recording him he's doubting himself you know
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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 person in the court 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 that's
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a feel and remember decide to go down just a few moments about. and then. present to me of a hat. and it's as i was being. presented. and so. i had taken. its hands during play time and playing in her own mind. consortium or short. you know short of forward in that or question or. so when you say give you pleasure at one time in the central horizon. it would have to be. i don't know you know. my memory i mean it's like there's no do it if you ran out and demand i did that's
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your handwriting and it just losing it over briefly doesn't look like it's been changed in any way. and that's your signature at the bottom as you read this out here today you're going to show it to camera. i don't even think people in the us 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 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. here very serious allegations 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 to turn and. this. is what i missed it didn't oh man it's he still in fact this awful person and i get what dansko was it appointed about him and its function you want to install a c.p.a. so he put in
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a treaty between the elite sport from sin no one say it's going to help put the 2 at the end of the good game system and sit for it to pass says just listen for what to put in a new ear at which is here in new york i can't for. the for fun see treating its 3 stories up. in 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 are 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 convicted in the infamous central park jogger case in 1989 the rape and beating of a female jogger made headlines nationwide the teenagers are can fast but later claim that their confessions have been covered. when the actual perpetrator stepped forward the 5 men were playing the economy over the past time for nearly 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
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page news every day everywhere and they derive you get a rash and i got it. when you get to the false confession in that case it was a classic you know. mismatch they were totally overmatched underrepresented 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 their miranda rights. to that. this is very very serious this may be very we don't know if this woman is there. i want to know exactly what you saw and exactly what and exactly what you said.
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after seeing those pictures i'm sure that you can see where this point is to what. it is hard for people to understand how this can. help out 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 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 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
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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 a rape and go all 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 confront the most typical response because i want to go home. innocent 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 lab great great 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 a promise of future exoneration paradoxically makes it easier to confess right
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randi kaye we're going to do some tests going to take blood samples from a lot of different people. and 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. because you're in a position now where 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 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 she'd 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
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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 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 would put the most of them by it was a it was a room but just to go home or guess my way nor me. i was worried that it was going to be true it was what a coach wordle. so is his shop owner werner. when all that seems to matter is the headline there is always 2 sides to a story when narratives and counter narratives obscure reality the leader on the one hand and the enemy is over them either on the other hand the listening post
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drips away the spin what kind of reporting if you can see on the ground misinformation is right lays bare the bias a lot of people believe things because they want to believe them done covers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war the listing posts on a. trial jury bringing my neighbors my neighbors children so they can see and get more comfortable 5 years children are at the heart of america's love affair with weapons back at the verizon makes a report on the christie and therefore new machine and it's fun but a new generation is fighting fire with the recently are fighting for voices to be heard because you don't want to see any of the speeding get turning. never again part of the radicalized youth series on al-jazeera al-jazeera is here to report on the people often ignored but who must be heard how many other channels can you say will take the time and put extensive thought into reporting from under reported
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areas of course we cover major global offense but our passion lies in making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like palestine the young man has to have legion and so many others to go to them to make a afterwards we care to stay. hello again peter dhabi in doha the top stories on al-jazeera the total number of $1000.00 cases around the globe is quickly approaching $100000000.00 it comes as world leaders struggle with how to respond including mexico's president oprah door who's now tested positive for the virus the united states will reinstate a travel ban in an effort to contain the highly contagious corona virus variants
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but it won't apply to american citizens and residents nations affected include brazil the u.k. and most of the e.u. countries south africa will also be added to the list new zealand has reported its 1st community case in months which was contracted in quarantine is believed to be the south african strain of the virus germany's health minister says berlin expects regulators to approve the covert $1000.00 vaccine developed by astra zeneca and the university of oxford on friday as concerns grow about the more infectious u.k. variant spreading rapidly in germany dominant cane is in berlin with more. people know about it now but the fear is how long how much time there was between the 1st case appearing there and the quarantine happening which mirrors in some ways the way that the pandemic developed in germany certainly the case of being a dentist and then finally a quarantine as it were being imposed that's what's informing this perspective right now but no doubt about it from
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a ministerial perspective not just in berlin but right around the country they're very very concerned about the new variants that have been identified and specifically about the one that was 1st identified in the u.k. uganda's high court says the detention of the opposition leader bobby wine by security forces is unlawful the court has directed the police and the military to leave winds residence in has been under house arrest since january the 15th a day after uganda's disputed presidential election 10 miners have died in northeastern china after being trapped underground for 2 weeks they were among the 22 people caught in the blast at a gold mine in the province of dong 11 have been pulled to safety one person is still missing the indian army says there's been a minor faceoff between their troops and chinese forces it happened in the cool area in the northeastern state of sick and last week china has urged india to show restraint its those are your headlines up next we go back to
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a witness i'll have the news for you and 30 minutes hopefully see that. first there right. 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 didn't he do in the living room look at this photo look at what happens here oh yeah. it certainly doesn't fit with renee's no concise no i want to see a real place really for i think you heard that some wishful thinking michael i
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don't think there is a real 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 they didn't really want korean because they didn't really believe that he was there . that or that it happened like that and so if they get him in that then they could end up with nobody bacon today i believe that amherst was you know in their ranking safest place in america to live oh really is that their image was getting tarnished you know so became very little bright. one taking on a case like rene is the danger is always the case of events 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.
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you. to test it's extremely hard to prove that your client is innocent. that's really. right. 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. you found in every. 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 physical evidence the corroboration to the confession is a snitch. my . 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 her how they were in bed for together makes. you. all are going to. come calling you are i hope so
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please place because it has a name is doing 25 to life for something she didn't do. and we really are are hitting a lot of dead ends and rockwell's a huge going to be a huge helped us ok i'm very much thank you sir. i know by if you mean you can i have no practical ok. oh. ok. do you mind if i said there. is only thing. good that's ok do you know where. i don't have a stream for you or 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 if 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 they do sometimes it was a bloody crime so now we know i was my d.n.a. so these are all somebody else. to be you know how. 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'm helping rene trying to get her out can we come by what do i have to just talk to me. ok 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 ok good for her promise you anything like where you going to get out let me go. 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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is tiny like maybe 110 pounds a regular nobody killed or near. the overlap between meltzer and lorenzo is a mountain 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 i was untrue . to the bar. 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 something. on the 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 we're still going to see both of you they're not ready.
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to say go for it isn't it is it. rather that the real issues that you need to show me that you are in that are the same breath that you get out you mean a state 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 begun. i didn't want to jack the car into one that did.
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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 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 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. while you're a sleaze house it was not. the reason you see things in that low you keep your head
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for hours yesterday our man who kicked you in the head of course the building a story for him to tell. or is it you know the right ridge goes to 0 part of the trade she's. around so was it you're 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 should convey that he knows the gate he knows 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 would think that up. i just stand here watch your cry for 5 minutes you wait then tough you know. you're your home you're not going home tonight i can guarantee
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that you'll reform and they do not put you in juvenile hall for murder which would be boys you know. you read to mom you good talk now or say goodbye to your mom it's a pretty clear and your cousin and your sister and your girlfriend and your life. you're into any longer. you ready. room. what can an innocent person do next solve the situation anything i guess you could hold out right forever 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 at 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 prison now for 20 years her son grew up without
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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 on time it's my mom she wants us to last oh oh oh fortune life goes on yeah i'll side of the bars just have to be patient right you know. and 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 right. now just try to make a better word for markets for much over them a 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 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 states of the of the states to everybody and. i hope you read your night in person. i hope that we can make that happen for you.
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part. a of me ask. dr gregory. or rock i know all of us could 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 and we only going to get one shot at this. so just hang in there. i promise you there will be an hour and i hope it's a good one but there won't be any and.
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the dude you're going to get means could lose some of them. does he in any way blame himself for i think so to patrol lending and confessed i think they all do that but my own observations from talking to wrongfully convicted people is. those who are 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 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 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 people in the city in the prosecution took away from him right that money can't replace. when you come back to society you don't
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you don't know when to do it in charity. you don't know what to do or it. will be the morning. star over here. starchy journo lobel you know whatever journey may be. if you're going i was always to 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 a 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
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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 of a british human but it's more of a but it's pretty darned. near a nice 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 it she deserves to spend every minute of the rest of it with her family. to. the us and grandma was here today. for the knowledge. that our son. in the love life.
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i really did bad things with i be able to forgive somebody like me a convicted war criminal seeks out the survivors of a prison camp to apologize for the crimes of his past i just can't get. better showing. the unforgiven a witness documentary on al-jazeera my old team asked back. did not let me sleep. it's time for the perfect journal the weather sponsored by qatar airways.
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as the summer heat builds again in argentina he's quite nice 35 and by a blanket so where the 3 countries meet the showers do get i think they're slowing leaving in their produce some flooding in the next couple of days the line is pretty obvious where the orange tops are and once again we see them try and develop in bolivia and maybe peru but not really succeed to be very big ones they are creeping up through colombia and that particularly in the west of colombia and the onshore breeze are the curve caribbean for nicaragua or costa rica and panama is increasingly producing cloudy dull scars that breaks of light rain a few showers left in the bahamas that was a fairly dry picture for the entries on the edges and the suddenly breeze up into the southern states is inherent seeing the rain up here that's not the big story in the states that rain is certainly going through where the front has been produced with the north rain to the surface but look at the california coast now lives not
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much at the moment but that northerly breeze is the 2nd tranche of right on its way down and san francisco we'll see a southerly wind develop into a near gale on tuesday as the rain comes in the rain last into wednesday and he still have a windy suddenly that's pretty stormy weather for a normally quiet san francisco. sponsored by a qatar airways told to own their own. tell us are in a case worse for you compensated civilians will we listen to the only music you hear is your own the most beautiful music in the world the silence we meet with the global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the edges there on the american people have finally folk in america as i see it when america is off balance or becomes more dangerous the world is looking unfair as linux sure of sanusi big. with the election behind us will the republican party dump truck to the
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