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 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. martin believe that this is going to be. my fish and that i would not want to be in prison on my. that's something that i would wish him off worst enemy just being processed for you to go into a sale on the whole process of it as stone i'm comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from you.

and tell you one thing about them are. i think that the last time he saw his daughter they were looking occurred to me. but everything he told me to do for her . in the matters and in his. everything he 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 was in here to help her train is 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 and 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 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. advocate life for twenty years twenty plus years and carried. and the navy and i say this i'm outta here me i'm tellin om i'm not on hall of math 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 showing a claims to have seen lewis return from kristina brown subpart meant covered in blood the the in. and then a little bit 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 with nails. they he just killed. very important to me that. you know wrong as it is. whatever else he was charged with i feel like eighteen year he. 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 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. 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 from christina brown's print. 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 the student 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 a lot and they looked a lot like robert louis his fingerprints. his

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 miss against the police crime lab. it was powerful stuff and it was a day for celebration. in the northern. plains for us thank you 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 praying 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 and i'm feeling good. i don't have the truth but now everybody knows the truth and so that was a blessing you know people still about me. i feel good for them because now people know that they still. me and they were right to do so. lamar months and 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. all jews 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 finally came and. i can only get the glory to go up the field your mom always said she was in waiting to get that to hold your mom right now. or words to express his 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 six i think and i had five four 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 charters who work on the case. as a spy you know how do we split your own personality into two you there is a committee of jihad this. that was still alive within me and then that is the possum who wanted to come to everything they want to do and then try and dismantle everything they were doing so you know how often to really become a good doc and noted that a tool. you have to fully own poverty in order to hold the.

officer. told you to get up off the ground the officer began to pay him down. and then freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man in the christening essentially the officer who. drew his return in the usual wish to away from the officer. of his group. the officer did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then when it happened on tree swung and i didn't hit him i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and he bit down tree. you know world of big partisan movies 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. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten like colored prime tamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long 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. 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. it and then all the people in the world his 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 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 word we all believe in our hearts. that the person really responsible for something as in this is the murder of the twin room 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 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. 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's back i miss my son he's. a minister my nieces and nephews a mother was at the time my father was lost my grandparents. there's a lot of things that i miss and the 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 used up the last 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 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 because they didn't get. my life started january sixth of 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 conviction that he would. know.

twenty million dollars is not enough it never will be enough nor any amount because again is the memories there. 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 then yes i was an innocent person going to prison to serve a natural a sentence is 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 the name 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 intemperance on me of course i had to fight them off thank god then 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 and they were willing to kill in one thousand year old kid and in the end what the hell was going on shows you the character of mankind you know i'm. to this day i still have difficulties in trust because 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 and all that because they do it to me constantly while i'm walking in the streets and i get in the branches the 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 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 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 officers. that worked in my case as well it's attorneys if all retired with pension pension there was no repercussions no richard b. sheen 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. having clothes they did that's still only three felonies i might get credit i have credibility but what about her or her family do they even care no they're not even searching for the person they get these early because they fell in the still field and 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 we spawns back so it's a horrible practice 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 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. safe

. and the police stations are always telling us oh we can't have everything at the same time we can't have peace and democracy blah blah blah in a cause conflict situation i know war situation that's not true is that instead of telling people what you can't have everything and then failing to deliver it everything we should be fabric here and say ok you can have cheese like some kind of peace you can have some kind of democracy you can have some kind of justice in the short term but unfortunately we cannot feel everything at the same time and so someone has to make a choice. when they came back from iraq now oh mary warned her we're cocaine

methamphetamine anything that's altering trying to get us out of. that. using the chemical that would be so. i want to be drinking and drinking ino new not just killing myself but to drink alcoholic. drink to get drunk alcoholics drink to feel normal. that's why they call it's this way drug. shotwell silver near here star cool under which these guys are going through to it it just means to. need to be hoped and pushed on by the v.a.'s are as drugs go and stuff they need to be built. so they've really shouldn't be looked at like numbers they should be looked at by people if they go to a veteran center for health issues be considered as someone who really needs attention.

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