shalane 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 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 stepdad 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 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 there were bloody fingerprints all over it nobody had ever bothered to test and so this is you know saying dave 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 our and they looked a lot like robert louis his fingerprints. and state police new technology and they've. and all of them belong to robert louis and none of them belong to the months. 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. when you think we need to find. a new. thanks to this new evidence the 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 auburn. and i asked and see things developing

before my last witness come for five to twelve years evidence. just by. then the kid in my spirit you know when i'm feeling good. i know the truth but not everybody knows the truth. so. unless you know people have stood by me. good for them because now people know that they still back 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 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. i just knew was a call to ask for is something being we've been waiting or something we've been up just prayed for the longest on the fall you came and i just said i can only get the glory to go up to the field your mom always said she was in waiting to get up to hold your mom right now it's all about that emotion. i go 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 happy 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. show seem wrong. just don't hold. anything to be yet to shape out just days after. and in games from an equal 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 to us of the with one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happy each day. eighty

five percent of global wealth you longed to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent flies 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. their bread for a single purpose. they have a superman. they start training very young. they months of intensive schooling. their

reps. and they save lives. u.s. veterans who come back from wall often tell the same stories. were going out for the people and were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defenses office says we're got to act and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the walls 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 then surely we can risk some discomfort for for uneasiness. lamar 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 that the dumbest prosecutor in the world could win a conviction pretty easily. they made it clear they're not going to charge it because charging him would be admitting they got it wrong with the marbles. kristina brown has 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 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 is 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 innocence claims and the person responsible is known and named in the current police report with 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 that to. 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 twenty years back i miss my son he's bringing 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 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 there's nothing in my years it doesn't give me that you. lost 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 it's time to go to trial when nordstrom is the one who photos she will just show you human side. 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 one repair i 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 or. no. twenty million dollars is not enough it never will be enough nor any amount because again it is the memories that mean the. 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 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 unknown and very very scary. second i'm going into for murder. her rape. there for eleven years so as if they got three strikes against him in prison they don't like it. 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 that i defied them off. in prison records this is what i had so we do it when i was an interesting. one 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 in this they went to 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 missed 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 when i'm walking in the streets and i get in the bridges that 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 three when i still think you killed that child there is also this is what i want 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 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 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. although 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 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 their states. oh yeah it goes a victim. having clothes they did they still own and i mean i might get 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 these that already 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 the criminal justice system tries to cover up the failure. 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 in 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 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 that goes on all the time and in the us 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. thanks

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