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a right to be concerned about that. right that's it for now but if you're on the hunt for more news and do give our twitter page a look stories literally by the minute there see you in 30 up or some more great program starting here in moments. at the time a local television reporter from detroit is following the case closely bill proctor is well aware of the methods used by local police to close certain cases as quickly as possible. they did this all the time. they had people make statements whether in writing or they did the writing they had somebody 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 3 real number doesn't run into the hundreds or thousands because the same cadre of bad detectives that probably were 2 dozen of them were in place for over 35 years. were marked on her. medication. with no evidence or witness statements against him on the 7th of march $997.00 lamar monson is sentenced to 50 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of christina brown. only one element was used against him the confession that he signed. on and believe that this is going to be. off years we're not going to want to be in prison on. something that i wouldn't wish him off worst enemy just being

processed for you to go into. wassail on the whole process of a stone i'm comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from. by 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 matters and in his car i did everything he said do for her she never had a word for anything because a 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 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 in the world for nothing but missing of. 20 years later a 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. 2 months before i retired after 33 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. ad the character life for 20 years 20 plus years and here it is and that made it and. i'm not here me. i'm not all about that.

at the time of the events shalane a bentley resides in the building where the crime takes place she shares her life with her. certain mr robert louis both of them were regular crack users on the day of the crime shalane a claims to have seen lewis return from kristina brown subpart went covered in blood. and then they let in a t.v. out of my door open and the local m.p. throwing them out the way and blood with it on it and. boots on. i look like he if he is the most blood and it's like. me of. a he just killed. very employ me. you know wrong as it is. whatever else

he was charged with i feel like 18 year he. too much. i'm the one that told that girl was not fair she was beat they they had and he stabbed no he did nothing he 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 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 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 20 years earlier. and in september 2 10162 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 and nobody had ever bothered to test and so they didn't 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 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 moments 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 thank you and we need to find. a new. thanks to this new evidence more monson is granted a new trial in january 2017 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 and before my last witness come for 5 to 12 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 that was. a lesson 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 1st. 2017 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 fall he came and. i can only go to glory to go up the field your mom always says she was in waiting to get that so hold your

mom right now it's all. right go 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. 22 of these cases altogether 17 since we started the clinic and i had 5 before 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 who work on the case.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is on the air in dramatic development is only a silly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

monson's name is cleared for good. robert lewis the man whose fingerprints were found at the scene housed 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. 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. they've made it clear they're not going to charge him because charging him would be admitting that they got it wrong with them our minds. christina brows been dead now for 22 years but she still deserves justice. and her family still deserves justice and they won't get it because the prosecution the

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 50 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 the 2 we 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 in the current police report where 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 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 20 years spent behind bars for a crime he did not commit. this man received a figure and the subsequent compensation of $20000000.00. one rivera has just received 20000000 dollars 20000000 dollars for 20 years of imprisonment for a crime he did not commit one rivera was also forced to sign a confession. in 1997 he confessed to the rape and murder of an 11 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 20000000 that is enough and i'll tell you as i tell them you know when you keep talking 20 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. that i can never get back no matter how much money i get you know they can offer me a $100000000.00 when they come from yes he has given me confidence but they. i think in my years back 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 3 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 didn't get. my life started january 16th

2012 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 20 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. $20000000.00 is not enough it never will be enough nor any amount because again it is the memories that mean. not the money. one rivera is barely 19 years old when his life turns into

a nightmare on the 17th of august 1902 the chicago police force accuses him of the rape and murder of holly staker an 11 year old babysitter who was stabbed $27.00 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 is a natural a sense as for something that is new so that was this added bonus to my him going into prison 1st of all i'm going to an environment that is a nexus me unknown and very very scary. second i'm going into for murder. her rape the need for 11 years so as if they got 3 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 its embrace 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 they were willing to kill in 1000 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 in trust because he was willing to kill me then i miss him i'm not willing to kill me now i mean i've gotten 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 in constantly while i'm walking in the streets and i get in the branches 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 have 3 when i still think you killed that child there is 3 so this is what i have to live with but still yet i got to smile. in 2015 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 20 $1000000.00 that one rivera received $2000000.00 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 dishing no criminal charges nothing i see extended into a 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 the states. oh yeah it goes a victim. having clothes they did they still own big for me i might get credit i

have credibility but what about her family do they even care no they're not even searching for the person they get these doppler 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 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 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 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. god

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