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. sell us dozens of them 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 read. 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 kristina brown. only one element was used against him the confession that he signed. it and believe that this is going to be. off years and i would not want to be in prison on. something that i wouldn't wish him off worst enemy just being processed for you to go into a sale. the whole process of a distressed comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from. you one thing about america. i think that. door dish. they were looking occurred

to me. but everything he told me to do for her. in the letters and in his calls did everything he said do for her she never had a word for anything because the father was not around. and she was a little upset and angry home mother too was because tomorrow wasn't here to help her train his 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 myths and of. twenty years later the 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 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 years and carried. and the made it and. 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 showing a claims to have seen lewis return from kristina brown subpart meant covered in blood with. them a little bit of my door open and the local piece of them out go away. with it on the. boots on.

it. and the mail. they he just killed. me. you know wrong is wrong it is. whatever else he was charged with i feel like eighteen year he of it there was too much. i'm the one that told that girl was not fair she was beat they they had and he stabbed no he did not. care. charlene a 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 crime scene 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. a 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 christina brown's prints. 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 not only was it covered in blood but there were bloody fingerprints all over it nobody had ever bothered to test and so this student you know saying dave look there's a bloody fingerprint right there and i 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 his fingerprints. this can state police have new technology and they found none. and all of them belonged to robert louis and none of them belonged to the apartments 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. weening or decline. in your will 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 ass witness come for five to twelve years evidence.

despite i'm phil event the kid in my spirit you know and i'm feeling good. i know the truth and now everybody knows the truth and so that was a blessing you know people still back me. feel good for them because now people know that they still. me and they were right to do so. lamar munson is out on bond and heads right over to his family and supporters at the wayne county jail. i have prayed and i pray. and i ask. please let me live see them or come home. 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 to supply for the longest on the fall he came and. i can only get the glory to go up the field your mom always there she was in waiting to get that hope your mom right now it's all about that emotion. or words to express is one of been a mark on all my life there's 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 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 it turns who work on the case. one else shows seem wrong when all. just don't hold. anything you get to shape out these days you can stick out to it and in gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 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 crime tempi each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth he 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't afford to miss the one and only. dallas. that dollar dolly is what i mean. when we got garrett over here we care the music with us. we are here with a drag here. by good luck going to get rid of those who are not go away

there will not die quiet. real the hard to do what we do is the true. monson's name is cleared for good. robert lewis the man whose fingerprints were found at the scene has 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've 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 the stopper. 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 son 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 people. that try to keep families

together that's separate of it doesn't matter. the country is untrue. we live with certain notions of justice. of what the last word we all believe in our hearts. that the person really responsible for something as in this is the murder of the two should 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 in the current police department the made the 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. attorneys that i've seen 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 twenty years back i miss. my son he's. a minister my nieces and nephews a mother was at the time my father was i'm lost my grandparents you know there's a lot of things that i miss any family. that i can never get back no matter how much money i had 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 the news that i lost the memories that often lost i mean to this day if you ask a pang as any of my childhood photos 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 you human side. i don't have no records of my upbringing as they took. my life bonded january sixteenth two thousand and twelve that's when my life that's when i have 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 man it's been twenty years of separation and this is a new beginning for me so this may be one of those will not be last month no more

turn the fiction that end of the seawater. so. twenty million dollars is not enough it never will be an offer nor any amount because again it is the memories then we know. 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 they yes i was an innocent person going to

prison this is a natural a census for something that is new so that was this added bonus to my. i'm 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 in there for murder. her rape the need for love in your child so as if they got three strikes against him in prison they don't like me. but if they do i've asked 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 and this is what i had so we do it when i was in prison. ron 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 . in the end 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 because if you was willing to kill me then the mission i'm not willing to kill me now i mean i got death threats as these. 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's 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 think you killed that child so this is what i have 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 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 officers that were in my case as well it's attorneys if all retired with. n.c. there was no repercussions no richard vision no criminal charges nothing i see extended into a job they need to hire and major tenants to has is very mike wallace retired and they gave him a plaque for good job. there's a culture of. an accountability 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 again and states still yeah it goes a victim. have because they did they still own big for me i might get credit i have clarity but what about her family do they even care no they're not even searching for the person they get is that really because they thought and they 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 right 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 them 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 lie to 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 response back so it's a horrible practice that 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. you

know 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 back 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. to brag zentner not to brag that that is the question teresa mayes plan to exit the e.u. has been roundly criticised from virtually every corner and with a looming deadline the u.k. could face a hard briggs's without an agreement even early elections how did it get to this

point. i go to a place called camp sundown to get for people that can't decide and they're like so vampires. this is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand our daughter katie was first diagnosed with a very rare son sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she does or she'll patients when they have problems with the walk to talk to her son the brains of her actually shrinking inside there the still gets flicker in the brain state small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles always down to the bone. there is no relief. we're just not sure this is going to stop.

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