little room six. million real news room. at the time a local television reporter from detroit is following the case closely bill proctor is well aware of the methods used by local police to close certain cases as quickly as possible. they did this all the time. they had people make statements whether in writing or they did the writing they had some buddies and with the suggestion that hears this and you can go home i've heard that doesn't. sound dozens and dozens and it wouldn't

surprise me at all the three real number doesn't run into the hundreds or thousands because the same cadre of bad detectives that probably were two dozen of them were in place for over thirty five years. were the marks on her really medicated. with no evidence or witness statements against him on the seventh of march nine hundred ninety seven lamar monson is sentenced to fifty years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of christina brown. only one element was used against him the confession that he saw and. martin believe that this is going to be. off ish and that i would not want to be in prison on my.

that's something that i wouldn't wish him off worst enemy just being processed for you to go into or sail on the whole process of a stone comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from them. 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 i did 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 the mar 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 good 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 but 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. ad the character life for twenty years twenty plus year that it carried. and the navy and they say i'm outta here me i'm tellin om i'm not on holiday and that.

at the time of the events 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 shalane a claims to have seen lewis return from kristina brown subpart meant covered in blood the end. and then a little bit of my door open and the local piece of them out go away and blood dripping on his. boots on. the my blood and. blood and his nails he just killed. me. you know wrong as it is. whatever else he

was charged with i feel like eighteen years that he is. there 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 he be. 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 retraced 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 crimes so at the time they interrogated lamar and then extracted

this false confession got him to sign this 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 that 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 the toilet 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 the student 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 that are and they look a lot like robert louis is fingerprints. this can state police new technology and they found none. and all of them belonged to robert louis and none of them belonged to lamar 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 prosecutor's struggle to answer the forensics that came from no less than the mistaken state police crime lab. it was powerful stuff and it was

a day for celebration. in the northern. plains thank you weening for decline. in your real 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 in before my eyes witness come for five to twelve years evidence. just by i'm feel event the kid 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 that stood by me. 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 in them or come. in with 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. all jews knew was a call to ask for something beyond we've been waiting on something we've been up to supply for the longest on the fall he came and. i can only get the glory to go does the field you mom always say she was in waiting to get that hope your mom right now

. i go words to express is one of been a mark on all my life a lot more life and i'm just glad she finally got some help 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. 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 to work on the case. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s.

has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to the rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first second and fifth point rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business shows you can't 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 in 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 with. in a world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream 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. true the time is now up

for watching closely watching the hawks. lamar monson's name is cleared for good. robert lewis the man whose fingerprints 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 the 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 him armand's.

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 about my. 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 hurt people. that try to keep families together at separate or it doesn't matter how.

the country is in trouble. we live with certain notions of justice. of what the law says what we all believe in our hearts. that the person really responsible for something as innocent as the murder of a twelve year old girl should answer for that crime. yet over and over and over again i have been party to evaluating cases where there are innocents 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. confessed to the rape and murder of

an eleven year old girl. turn is this i've 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 if i tell them you know what you keep twenty or twenty years back i miss my family's. a miss my nieces and nephews my mother was at the time my father was lost my grandparents you know there's a lot of things that i missed and family. that i can never get back no matter how much money i you know they can offer me a hundred million dollars when they come from yes it has given me comfort but there's nothing in my years back it doesn't give me the news that often lost the memories that often lost i mean to this day if you ask my parents for any of my childhood photos she would say she has them because the court has them one of three

trials which i'm going to try nordstrom is the one new photos you want to show your human side. i don't have no records of my upbringing as they took in. my life on to january sixteenth 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 want ribeiro walked out of state bill correctional center a free man all i want to do is enjoy my time with my family but it's been twenty years of separation and this is a new beginning for me so this may be one of those. not a few last months. turned to fiction that end of the you were. twenty million dollars is not enough it never will be enough nor any amount because again 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 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 then yes i was an innocent person going to prison to serve a natural a sentence is for something that is new so that was this added bonus to my him going into prison first of all i'm going to an environment that is unnatural to me unknown and very very scary. second i'm going into for murder. her great. name for eleven years so as they got three strikes against

him in prison they don't like me. but they do i got them twice when i was in prison. too it's embrace on me of course i had to fight him off thank god that i did find him 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 asked to have difficulties and trust him because he was willing to kill me then. i'm missing anything that you are not willing to kill

me now when i get death threats asking if. you're going to live my life by smiling and watching my back because people still want to hurt me just as in that i know that because they doing to me constantly while i'm walking in the streets and i get in the branches the general approach is that you know what i have a chance to kill you i would because you don't deserve to be alive i have free when i think you killed that there is so this is what i want to live with but still yet i got to smile. in two thousand and fifteen when the results of d.n.a. analyses allowed want to be exonerated for good ali 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 one 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 officers.

that worked in my case as well it's attorneys all retired with pension pension there was no repercussions no rich and usually no criminal charges nothing i see extended into job they need to hire and major tenants to his is very much a wall of retired and they gave him 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 clothes they did they still own and i mean i might get credit when i have credit but what about her family do they even care no they're not even searching for the person they get is the operator 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. or

ask in a couple of these guys 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 we're allowed to lie to them and i would again ask them why do you think lying to someone is going to get a truthful answer response in they just couldn't answer it and 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 goes on all the time and in the us 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. war

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