and this and you can go home i've heard that doesn't. sound dozens of them and it wouldn't surprise me at all the thrill 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 marked on. it. 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 signed. martin believe that this is going to be. off years they're not going to want to be

in prison on the right. something that i wouldn't wish him off worst enemy just being processed for you to go into a sale on the whole process of it is comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from. there 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 letters and in his car and the and everything you do for her she never had a word for anything because the father was not around. and she was upset and angry

her mother too was because the mar wasn't here to help her tray his daughter said 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 as is she didn't want for nothing but missing her. 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 kristina 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. other garrett life. for twenty years twenty plus years and carried this. and the made it and say i'm outta here me i'm tellin

om i'm not on hall of math 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 the end. and then they live in a t.v. of my door open and the local m.p. throwing them out the way and blood in on. the. boots on. the my blood and. blood and his nails. they he just killed.

me. 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 that 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 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 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 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 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 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 a lot and they looked a lot like robert louis as fingerprints. as 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 prosecutor's struggle to answer the forensics that came from no less than the miss against the police crime lab. it was powerful stuff and it was

a day for celebration. on his way to work thing we need to find. 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 to see things develop and before my last witness come for five to twelve years evidence. just by i'm feel event take a hit in my spirit you know when i'm feeling good. i know the truth but now everybody knows the truth and so it was a blessing you know people have stood by 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 salem 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 call to ask for something being we've been waiting something we've been up just prayed for the longest on the file you came and. i can only get the glory to go does the field your mom always say she was in waiting to get that so hold

your mom right now it's all about that emotion. or words to express it 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 altogether seventeen since we started the clinic and i had five four 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 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 be 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 show you can't afford to miss the one and only boom bust. that spread for a single purpose. they have a superman. they start training very young.

eight months of intensive schooling. rats. and they save lives. when the whole make this many a factor come sentenced him to public wealth. when the running plus is protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent of. the time doing the whole middle of the room signals. going to lean really means. lamar 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 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 them 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. 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 at separate are it doesn't matter. the country is untrue. we live with certain notions of justice. of what the last what we all believe in our hearts. that the person really respond . move 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 innocence claims and the person responsible is known and named and the very police department the made the mistake does nothing to go back and capture and charge the person who is 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. tennis i. decided soon on saturday i would as i was asked by the news media. no is the twenty

million that is enough and i'll tell you as i told them you know what you keep twenty or twenty years back i miss my cities i 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 miss. 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 for yes it has given me comfort but there's nothing in my years back it doesn't give me that years that i 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 and it's time to go to trial when nordstrom is the one who photos she will just show you humans. i don't have no records of my upbringing because they didn't get. my life started 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 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 the fiction that you would. know. twenty million dollars is not enough it never will be enough nor any amount because again is the memories their meaning. 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 it ever since that's because then yes i was an innocent person going to prison this is a natural a sense as 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 the 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 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 did find i'm 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. to this day i still have difficulties and trust him because he was willing to kill me then i miss him i'm not willing to kill me now when i got death threats. are going to live my life by smiling and watching my back because people still want to hurt me is there anything that i know that because they doing 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 when 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 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 richard vision no criminal charges nothing i see extended into a job they need to hire and major tenants to his is very mike wallace 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. because they did they still own and i mean i might get credit when i have credibility but what about her family do they even care no they're not even

searching for the person they get these top thirty because they thought in these don't 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 mean we're asking 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 why did them and i again ask you why do you think lying to someone is going to get a truthful answer in response in 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 u.s. it's just it doesn't really serve it doesn't serve justice at all. what state does the. 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

politicians do something to. put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be us. that's why the press has allowed them up for three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the wives in the house. they sit.

us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people and were killing civilians they were not interested in the well being of their own soldiers either there are already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circuit events officer says we're got to act and destroy the governments and seven countries in five years americans pay for the was with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harms way. and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for nice. you know like the e.k.g. for countries is their ten year bond rating look at that you say oh that country's healthy the country's not healthy well looks like big health of the chinese economy

based on that their interest rates are better than america. when i was told small seemed wrong wrong wrong just don't call. any new world to be yet to shape out disdain to become educated and in gains from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so.

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