you feel like your freedom is being. siphoned away from me. and tell you one thing about them are. i think that the last time he saw his daughters they were looking occurred to me. but everything he told me to do for her . in the matters and in his. everything he said do for her she never had a word for anything because a father was not around. and she was upset and angry her mother too was because them are was in here to help her train is daughter and they could but he had the best interests in the world for his. he just wasn't here to do it so i did it. and like us is in the world for nothing but missing of.

twenty years later a single event changes the course of lamar monson's life just around the time that bill proctor the journalist who followed his case is getting ready to retire he receives a call from an unexpected witness who claims to know the real identity of christina brown's murder. two months before i retired after thirty three years in terms of and she called me on the phone it was one of the more shocking calls i'd ever taken. as an investigator do you get many but this woman said to me on the phone. and me even if you don't remember that murder that you covered back then on boston you got it wrong. you got it wrong and i said ok i'm listening.

and she explained that she was with the person who did the murder of the person in prison was not the killer that he wasn't there but she was with the man who did the killing and came back from the event dripping in blood and confessed to her that he had killed the. other gary life. twenty years twenty plus years and carried. and the native annie. i'm outta here me i'm tellin om i'm not on holiday and back. at the time of the offense shalane a bentley resides in the building where the crime takes place she shares her life with a certain mr robert louis both of them were regular crack users on the day of the

crime show in a claims to have seen lewis return from kristina brown subpart meant covered in blood the the in. and then they let in a t.v. . and the local m.p. throwing them out the way and blood in on the. boots on. the most blood and. blood and the males. they he just killed. is very important to me that. you know wrong as it is. whatever that he was charged with. i feel like eighteen year he. did that with too much. i'm the one that told him

that the girl was not fair she was beat. they had and he. no he didn't beat her. sure lena bentleys witness statement changes everything a team of lawyers and students from the university of michigan decide to reopen lamar monson's case they are part of a national network of dozens of american universities who fight against judicial errors over the course of a year they retrace the police investigation step by step trying to prove lamar monson's innocence the big problem right away with this confession was that it didn't match the crime scene so at the time they interrogated lamar and then extracted this false confession got him asinus false confession the police believe that christina brown had been stabbed to death they believe that because near her body in the bathroom sink there was a bloody knife and she had been stabbed so they extracted

a confession or i wrote out a confession for lamar in which he says he stabs her to death the problem was is that she wasn't stepped but the police did know that time so a few days later when the autopsy report comes out it reveals that she had superficial stab wounds but actually she'd been bludgeoned to death with a heavy object. it does not take the lawyers long to find the heavy object that allegedly killed the victim on the photos in the case file they notice that the toilet tank lid is not in the right place the likely murder instrument was the ceramic toilet tank with a heavy ceramic toy thankfully that had blood all over it that was found in the bedroom not too far from christina brown's print. after this the lawyers are convinced lamar monson did not kill christina brown as such he could not have written the confession himself the team from the university

of michigan then asked the judge in charge of the case for access to the objects that were present at the scene of the crime twenty years earlier. and in september two thousand and sixteen two students and i went to the to the prosecutor's office where they was brought there and it was unwrapped and it was still covered in blood and amazingly though it was it covered in blood but they were bloody fingerprints all over it and nobody had ever bothered to test and so they didn't you know saying hey look there's a bloody fingerprint right there and so i whipped out my i phone and i took photos of some of the bloody fingerprints on my i phone. and then brought them back and blew them up and we could see that they weren't we had comparison samples of art and they look a lot like robert louis is fingerprints. this

can state police have new technology and they found nothing. and all of them belonged to robert louis and none of them belonged to the months and i was ecstatic because i know the power of forensic testimony improves vs what someone might say because one is irrefutable the other can always be cut down by a nasty prosecutor. he couldn't do anything with this you should have seen the prosecutors struggle to answer the forensics that came from no less than the miss against a police crime lab. it was powerful stuff and it was a day for celebration. in the northern. plains or. we need to find. a new rule thanks to this new evidence more monson is granted

a new trial in january two thousand and seventeen after a one day hearing the court decides to exonerate lamar monson. surreal for me because these things i've been playing and asked for and seeing things develop and before my last witness come for five to twelve years evidence. just by i'm feel a vendor kate it in my spirit you know when i'm feeling good. i know the truth and now everybody knows the truth and so that was a blessing you know people have stood by me. i feel good for them because now people know that they still. me and they were right to do so. lamar months and is out on bond and heads right over to his family and supporters at the wayne county jail.

and i prayed and i prayed. and i asked. please let me live see them or come. and when february first. twenty seventeen and i was there and he was released. on holiday in credit. and i credit my son is free at last. i just knew was a call to ask for something beyond we've been waiting on something we've been up just prayed for the longest on the fall he came and. i can only go to glory to go up as the field your mom always said she was in waiting to get that hope your mom right now it's all about that emotion. i go words to express is one of been a mark on all my life just a little more life and i'm just glad she finally got some happy to be happy about.

oh it's a wonderful feeling. i've had now. twenty two of these cases all together seventeen since we started the clinic and i had five before and it's never gets old it's so wonderful when the person actually comes out of the door and they're met by their family and friends and. the students who work on the case who work on the case. you know world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's talking. to wake to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the

middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth you longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only.

cranking game americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year girl and trucks so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and that's a tough reality to deal. monson's

name is cleared for good. robert lewis the man who spent her prints were found at the scene as to this day still not been indicted. you have his ex-girlfriend saying he did it and then all the people in the world whose fingerprints could be on that toilet in blood it's him that's pretty good evidence i mean that's that's a case where i think that the dumbest prosecutor in the world could win a conviction pretty easily. but. they made it clear they're not going to charge him because charging him would be admitting that they got it wrong with the mom was. christina brows been dead now for twenty two years but she still deserves justice and her family still deserves justice and they won't get it because the prosecution

is stubborn. is still free want to know well and they know that he's guilty so what does that tell you about the system. system don't care about me. i'm a taxpayer i've lived in this city in this world over fifty years. they don't care . all they want to do is get away and keep that tragic families together at separate or it doesn't matter. the country is in trouble. we live with certain notions of justice.

of what the law says and what we all believe in our hearts. that the person really responsible for something as innocent as the murder of his will be will be sure to answer for that crime. yet over and over and over again i have been party to evaluating cases where there are innocence claims and the person responsible is known and named and the very police department the made a mistake does nothing to go back and capture and charge the person who was really responsible because it's difficult. because it takes extra work because it takes new witnesses because it takes a harder examination of what really happened and that examination would show that the initial group of police investigators that only failed but walked away from certain facts they didn't finish.

can you put a price on twenty years spent behind bars for a crime he did not commit. this man received a figure and the subsequent compensation of twenty million dollars. one rivera has just received twenty million dollars twenty million dollars for twenty years of imprisonment for a crime he did not commit one rivera was also forced to sign a confession. in one nine hundred ninety seven he confessed to the rape and murder of an eleven year old girl. turn is that the same decided to you know settle i would as i was asked by the news media you know

is the twenty million that is enough and i'll tell you as i tell them you know when you keep talking in my twenty years back i miss my son he's. a minister my nieces and nephews. mother was at the time my father was i'm lost my grandparents you know there's a lot of things that i miss and is family. and i can never get back no matter how much money i get you know they can offer me a hundred million dollars when they come from yes he has given me confidence but they. i think in my years it doesn't give me that years that i lost the memories that often lost i mean to this day if a pang has any of my telephotos she would say she has none because the court has them one of three trials and it's time to go to trial nordstrom is the one who photos you want to show your human side. i don't have no records of my upbringing

as they took. my life on a january sixth two thousand and twelve that's when my life that's when i have a record of who i am. surrounded by family members and cameras repair i walked out of state bill correctional center a free man all i want to do is enjoy my time with my family my it's been twenty years of separation and this is a new beginning for me so this may be one of those will not appeal last month eleanor turned the fiction that she would. know. twenty million dollars is not enough it never will be nor any amount because again it is the memories they mean. not the money. one rivera is barely nineteen years old when his life turns into

a nightmare on the seventeenth of august one thousand nine hundred two the chicago police force accuses him of the rape and murder of holly staker an eleven year old babysitter who was stabbed twenty seven times the case makes headlines across the country. in the space of a few hours the chicago police turns one into a publicly hated monster. i had a different sentence that's because it yes i was an innocent person going to prison to serve a natural a sentence for something that is new so that was just added bonus to my. i'm going into prison first of all i'm going to an environment that is the next it's unknown and very very scary. second i'm going in there for murder. her rape the name for eleven years so as if they got three strikes against him in

terrorism they don't like me. but if they do i guess them twice when i was in prison. to intemperance on me of course i had to fight them off thank god then i defied them off. in prison records this is what i had so we do it when i was interesting. rivera was not far from being sent to the electric chair these years of violence in prison these years spent on the margins of society have forever destroyed his trust in others and in the system. for me to hear at that time they were willing to kill in one thousand year old kid and understand what the hell was going on shows you the character of mankind you know i'm going to do is they i still have difficulties in trust because if you was willing to kill me then a mission anything that you are not willing to kill me now when i get death threats

. are going to live my life by smiling and watching my back because people still want to hurt me is the ins and outs i know that because they do it in constantly while i'm walking in the streets and i get in the bridges the general approach is that you know what if i have a chance to kill you i would because you don't deserve to be alive i feel free when i still think you killed that child so this is what i'm going to live with but still yet i got to smile. in two thousand and fifteen the results of d.n.a. analyses allowed want to be exonerated for good holly staker is a real killer still. roams free and no police officer seems to be searching for him out of the twenty million dollars that juan rivera received two million dollars were paid in by reed following a legal agreement in spite of this compensation not a single police officer has been personally sanctioned. all the offices.

that worked in my case as well it's attorneys all retired with pension pension there was no repercussions no richard vision no criminal charges nothing i see extended into job they need to hire and major tenants there is this is very much a wall of retired and they gave them a plaque for good job. there's a culture of. unaccountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with solving their crime and everything to do with. pointing the finger at perhaps the easiest person to point the finger at and there will be no consequence and so it happens over and over and over in the united states. oh yeah it goes a victim. having closed idea is still open for the me i might get credit would i

have credibility but what about her family do they even care no they're not even searching for the person they get is that only because they thought in the still feel that i'm guilty. in this theory our criminal justice system is designed to correctly identify perpetrators and bring them to justice where fails and where fails because of misconduct. the reaction of the criminal justice system is really the opposite of what it should be the criminal justice system tries to cover up the failure. and retain its legitimacy instead of admitting its mistakes and finding the real perpetrators the law gives police officers what is called qualified immunity for their actions which means it's very difficult to sue their. after the fact for

their roles in obtaining false confessions and prosecutors have what's called absolute immunity. so unless they become part of the police investigative process. they are not going to be held responsible for their role in wrongful convictions. no one should be above the law. and police officers themselves should not be above the law. reed has not responded to any of our interview requests however the firm has informed us that their training procedures now take the risk of false confessions into account. for its part the supreme court of the united states still allows police officers to lie during the interrogation stage. i member ask in a couple of these guys and depositions why they thought telling

a lie was going to get the truth and they didn't have an answer for me they just said well that's what we do that's the way interrogations go or allowed to why did them and i would again ask them why do you think lying to someone is going to get a truthful answer in response and they just couldn't answer it and i for the life of me i don't understand why someone would think that lying to someone is going to get a truth we spawns back so it's a horrible practice that that goes on all the time and in the us and it's just it doesn't really serve it doesn't serve justice at all. what state does the american judicial system find itself in today with corrupt cops and untouchable magistrates the american justice system is continuously producing more inequalities and more impunity in a country that is more divided than ever. but

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what i would be. we got garrett over here we care the music with us that. we are here. we were dragged here. by you know going to get rid of those who are not go away we will not die quietly. real the heart of what we do is the truth. and. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that profile in the spot the wish to pull the conviction. and any interrogation out there you'll see is

threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said before we. sat on a statement that i would be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with solving their crime. because there's plenty of survival guide books tasting just like malls in the store and simply that they have all the services. the seriousness they're going to get him back. oh he knows what it says and repatriation scheme will get the rest in seven years. philip to separate those guys are worth.

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