they had some buddies and with the suggestion that hears 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 door dish 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 them are was in here to help her train. 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 us is in the world for nothing but missing 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 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 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 that 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. added care life. twenty years twenty plus years and carried. and that made it and. i'm out here me almost.

i'm not on holiday and back. 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 mint covered in blood. and then they let him in the. open and the local them out go away and get in on the. boots and. if he is the most. males. they he just killed.

me. you know wrong is wrong right as. whatever else he was charged with i feel like eighteen year he covered that with too much. i'm the one that told him that the girl was not fat 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 crimes so at the time they interrogated lamar and then extract just 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 stabbed 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 tile exactly 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 though it was it covered in blood but they were bloody fingerprints all over it and nobody had ever bothered to test and so this 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 bigger prints. this can state police have new technology and they found nine. 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. in the northern. plains. and we need to find. a new. 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 event take a hit 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 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 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. 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 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 said she was in waiting to get that so hold 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 altogether 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.

i've been seeing the numbers mean they matter to us as are the one true. in dollars and death more than ten white collar crimes happy each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want 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 ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember of one one business showed you know four to miss the one and only. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were 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 got to act and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy miss for us. when we all make this manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the running clusters and protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million real names.

lamar monson's name is cleared for good. robert louis the man who spent her prints were found at the scene house 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. 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. 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 people. that try to keep families together at separate are 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 see you on saturday 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. 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. that 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 and they. i think in my years it doesn't give me that years that i've 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 another three trials and so i'm going to try nordstrom is the one new photos she will just show you humans. i don't have no records of my upbringing because they took. my life started january sixth two thousand and twelve that's when my life started 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 he would. know.

twenty million dollars is not enough it never will be enough nor any amount because again is the memories then we. 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 sense that's because then yes i was an innocent person going to prison 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

a nexus of me unknown and very very scary. second i'm going into 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 guess them twice when i was in prison. to its embrace on me of course i had to fight them off thank god that 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 it 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 get death threats. are 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 do it's an incapacity while i'm walking in the streets and i get in the bridges that 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 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 if 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 to his is very mike want to retire 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 their states. oh yeah it goes a victim. having clothes they did they still own so let me i might get credit would i have clarity what about her family do they even care no they're not even searching for the person they get these thoughts already 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 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 it 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 response back so it's a horrible practice that goes on all the time and in the u.s. 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. they're

bred for a single purpose. they have a superman. they start training very young. they months of intensive schooling. rats. and they save lives. in a world of big partisan. lot and conspiracies 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath 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. when they came back from iraq now oh mary was on her was cocaine methamphetamine so anything that's altering trying to get us out. that bad mindset used in the chemical there would be self medicating. i want to be drinking and drinking ino nuno just killing myself. out the whole. drink to get drunk alcoholics doing. norm. that's why. i shop for the next. star cool under which these guys are going through to do it it just means to. reduce need to be helped and pushed on by the v.a.'s r.'s drugs they need to be built. and they really should be looked at like numbers they should

be looked at like people if they go to a veteran center for health issues be considered as someone who really needs attention. in the news tonight u.s. democrats are again in the spotlight over alleged efforts to sway a state senate election in twenty seventeen using fake social media we'll tell you all about it coming up to pay you for the n.t. migrant alternative for germany party seriously off for street assault which police are treating is being politically motivated. and russian military police say they've begun patrols near the northern syrian city of man after u.s. backed kurdish forces have withdrawn from the. very good.