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. life. twenty years twenty plus year that in care. and the navy and they say i'm not 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 show in a claims to have seen lewis return from kristina brown subpart meant covered in blood. and then they live in a t.v. of my door open and the local m.p. is over then my doorway and blood with it on his. boots and. i look like he if he is the most blood and it's like it was blood on his nails he just killed. very avoid me that. you know wrong as it is. whatever else he was charged with. i feel like eighteen year he. there was 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 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 noticed 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 christina brown's pray. 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 there were bloody fingerprints all over it 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 of art and they look a lot like robert louis is 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 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 mistaken state police crime lab. it was powerful stuff and it was a day for celebration. in the northern. plains. 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 praying and asking 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 don't know the truth but 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. and i

prayed and i prayed. and i asked. please let me live see 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. i just knew was a call to ask for is something being 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 to the field your mom always says she was in waiting to get that hope your mom right now. i go words to express was warm and 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 before and it's never gets old is 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. with the manufacturer consent to public will. when the ruling classes can protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. from the real news is.

the world. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars dollars what as a team. we got carried away here we care the music with us. we are here with a drag here. by you looking to get rid of those who are not go away we will not die quiet. real the hard work we do is the truth.

and the see on the lying circumstances that's a load for the emergence of this very very learned from violence i think that we may get the sons and even grandsons of dies at some point in the future it's primarily a political issue in iraq that has taken on the military. and i'm afraid cations. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're going after the people who are killing civilians. they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulated branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money on those without knives if we were willing to go into harm's way

and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for. you know world of big partisan logs and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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.

you know. i'm one of them but i think it's ended up by a cool little one then when there's we're buddies. they both. should have been there so. put them down i don't want that or i can't that's funny as hell and nation you know that the community yeah i am close to boom keep it taking that he had to combat the night he made them. well the less you know enough to vote for had a. more

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. 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. feel free want to know well and they know that he's guilty so what does that tell you about the. 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 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 what we all believe in our hearts. that the person really responsible for something as innocent as the murder of it will be remembered 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 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 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 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 back give me the news that often 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 them because the court has them one of three trials and it's i'm going to try nordstrom is the one new photos you want to show you humans. i don't have no records of my upbringing

as they took. my lies down to january sixth 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 my it's been twenty years of separation and this is a new beginning for me so this may be one of us will not feel last month no more turn the fiction that he would. so. twenty million dollars is not enough it never will be 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 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 is a natural a census 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 a next it's unknown and very very scary. second i'm going in there for murder. her rape. and then for eleven years so as i

said i got three strikes against him in prison they don't like me. but if they do i guess them twice when i was in prison. two it's embraced on me of course i had to fight him off and god then i defied him off. in prison records and this is what i had so we do it when i was interesting. 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 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 in trusting him because if he was willing to kill me then a mission i'm 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 to me 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 have 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 polly 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 dishing 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 states. oh yeah it goes

a victim. having closed idea is still open so let me i might give credit when i have clarity 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. retain its legitimacy instead of admitting its mistakes and five being 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 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. fracking

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could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year drove a truck 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 jobs that laid off the american dream is changing it's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. i think that every one of us have but inside or i'm on a dock side i think. going down to your neck side that you can improve yourself. but it's also

a better then job but i really believe that this the bottom that we show up the side that disorient the bend for. our condition our life. i go to places like camp sundown camp for people that can't bluff side and they're like so vampire camp this is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand her daughter katie was diagnosed with a very rare sun sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she does or she'll patients when they have problems with the walk and talk to some of the brains are actually shrinking inside the skull gets thicker in the brain still 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 and there's no relief. so we're just not sure this is just. what politicians do so you can. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or something i want to. have to try to be close with what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my house. there should. be a little bit well today. three

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