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final written confession this technique has allegedly compelled thousands of innocent people to confess to crimes that they did not commit interrogations should be conducted in a non supportive environment we want to get the person on to our territory away from his or her own surroundings the interrogation room should be quiet private free of any outside distractions or noises. so please. show your members want to be on i don't know they tell these interrogators that you can tell whether someone is guilty by looking at them and listening to what they say that confirms their belief that the suspect is guilty and it is a recipe for disaster what are finally realized what had happened in that interrogation room it was like oh my god oh we begin to move closer shortening the distance between the suspect and ourselves moving into their personal space to slowly if. needed yes or no to pay. for.
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the united states to be proud of the many failures of the criminal justice system nobody saw it coming nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in this population a problem for. accusing yourself of committing a crime seems unbelievable but recently an official study from the us department of justice has revealed that almost a 3rd of the exonerated people have confessed to a crime that they did not actually commit at the beginning of the interrogation investigator enters the room stands about 3 or 4 feet away from a suspect looking down on the suspect and in a very direct and unequivocal way accuses him or of committing the crime. what happens when he dealing with. crooked cops. crooked people who don't care
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99 he was 23. fortune our way. or direction i want to go on life everything. was. kind of slow and when. it's more of a seasonal type of thing. so i looked to supplement my income a little bit and i made a bad smell bad decisions and also got out of philly a bit with our car accident. some people myself for of the other. and. that's where i was at that just trying to figure things out. and age 43. lamar munson has spent 21 years of his life behind bars.
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in 1996 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to 50 years in prison at the time he's making a living by selling drugs in an apartment building in detroit. is accused of killing christina brown one of his young clients on the night of the 19th of january 1996. however on the night of the murder lamar was far from the scene of the crime. he was at home with his 6 year old daughter. a member waking up watching cartoons with my daughter that saturday morning and she woke me up and i was like mom we're watching cartoons and davey and i want to wear
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my daughter saturday morning and. that's like i want to mom. and i was the last day i was out. that saturday morning lamar monson is the 1st to arrive at the scene he finds the apartment in a state of chaos and then he sees the young christina brown lying motionless on the floor on january 20th 1996 lamar went for his afternoon shift to the apartment and he found the body of christina brown he knew her as crystal. he thought she was 17 years old it was a young tal young woman who just cried herself a 17 after she was 12 and she was another one of the dealers who dealt out of that apartment and what he found was this horrific bloody crime scene. were. she was in a state of needed medical attention. or if it. was
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she was a. she was waving at me and trying to say my name. is taller than her. just hold on i want to get you have. to be long. and frantically run and banging on all the doors and the apartment for a call the police will call him as the police came and lamar spoke to the police and the police immediately decided that he was their suspect and so on that day very day he was arrested in fact we have a police report where the detective basically says on the same day of the killing we can close this case if we can just get our monson to confess. i got a phone call. telling me that my son had been arrested for killing
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a young lady. i know that could never never never be possible from the training that he had had from the time he was born until 22 years when they took him away from me i was devastated i with. i couldn't and i couldn't sleep i walked the floor wondering what had happened why it happened and where would they choose. kristina brown dies a few hours later in hospital. the officers of the detroit police force take more monson to the station and begin to question her. coarseness like she was my girlfriend and she was not girlfriend she's more like the little sister in a bunch and. we live in there i never live there in the one me i'm
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there. just stuff like. questioning was core from a witness to suspect. part of the interview process is you're supposed to use what recalls the behavioral analysis interview. and in that if you use these techniques it's like you know you're watching a person's body language or you're watching the way that they say something or the way that the answer your questions there's also a series of 17 questions that each is that you can ask the person and you know based is that based on your answers on their answers and based on your observations you will be able to tell whether or not they're being deceptive or not they're guilty with over 80 percent accuracy. of every judgment i'm very it's like being
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a human lie detector test and the problem with that is really read itself the read people at mit that is based on any science whatsoever just based on their own observations the real science says it's baloney it doesn't work. and it when they've done experiments with it they pretty much show that the accuracy is like flipping a coin it's $5050.00. the read into. derogation technique makes its debut in the sixty's it is revolutionary for police stations. john reid a police officer from chicago proposes a new and less brutal approach to interrogation. i think john reed was a reformer in many ways you have to understand that when reagan came to prominence . the method that was used widely throughout the united states
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was what's called the 3rd degree police officers were beating suspects into confessing to crimes that they did or didn't commit they were tuning them up they were using the rubber hose they were grilling them for hour after hour after hour and read to his credit knew that that was a way that was fraught with danger in that it might get false or unreliable concessions the problem is that he and weed and associates today have never come to grips with this act that psychological interrogation tactics can also produce false confessions. this in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has
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you can tell when someone's lying by the tone in their voice or by their posture or whether they sit rigid in their chair or relaxed whether they look at you and give you i contact or look away or look down whether they fold their arms fold their legs look up look left book right you name it it's a cue and the retreat interrogator. has a whole list of body language behaviors and verbal behaviors of suspects says i don't know that's considered deceptive if a suspect says oh man swear to god i had nothing to do with this appeals to religiosity are considered deceptive behavior they lead their trainees to believe that they are lie detectors but they are human lie detectors
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and once you make that judgment don't turn back move on to interrogation. when i 1st entered dance with homicide division. a lot of officers that's what they were saying and you did it your cue there who you know it was bombard me with that as i'm in a tara geisha. are to say my mind was. all over the place just devastated by what i've seen what was going on and then to get here and now you're trying to suggest that i committed the crime. the more monson's interrogation continues through the night as the hours go by the questions progressively turn into accusations so drove she sold drugs for you. you killed her she was your girlfriend and not just creating a scenario that they wanted on despite what i was attempting to
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relate to far as what i'm. so i would go back and forth and back before from the interrogation lasted maybe. 4 or 5 hours because it. is important issue you seldom will find a false confession take it in an hour seldom will you find that in 2 hours when you look at false confession cases 121-516-1820 hours can be broken down at some point the average person does what an average rational person does they conclude that i need to get out of this situation desperate they hate it here among comfortable i'm stressed and the more i deny it the more they call me a liar and i just can't get out this way so they're looking for a way out of
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a bad situation. the. entire crew on. confused and. that's funny over which. taken to. the floor locker at the time. and there ready it was star. kingsley k. rist. came believe was gorno. are you just can't imagine them to install a managed to scramble. the process of interrogations designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials. during most interrogations
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the suspect is not going to just sit there and listen to you while you develop your theme they're going to try to deny any involvement whatsoever but that should be expected many guilty people introduce their denials with permission phrases such as can i say one thing which is just listen to me but sir if i could only explain when the interrogator hears those phrases it's important to interject yourself and stop the person from continuing because you let him talk they'll say the words i didn't do it and the more often a person says they didn't do it the more difficult it becomes for us to get a confession. if you look at any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie and it's back to back it's over and over and over and over and it's cutting the person off and like this it is narrowing your options and giving you this
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perception that oh my god i am facing this guy knows the things that i'm guilty he has all the evidence i know that is bogus these witnesses didn't see me but they're lying. me and he's telling me that the only way that i can get a break from this is by telling him what he wants to hear. there are so stressed and they have to do with how long they've been there may have to do with the fact that it's late at night they've been accused of being called a liar they've threatened promises of the made whatever it is they get to a breaking point where they decide that it's in their best interest to confess at this moment it's in my better interest to confess them to continue denial. lamar monson sees that he is about to be caught in a trap police detective joan going places
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a file on the table. or the broader her office. and. she said there she had a pile of files on the desk and she mentioned well you know this she was making a reference to those files being evidence against you against me and i'm like. ok. i don't know what that is but i haven't done anything and i don't know why i'm down here and i want to go basically. what was inside of this fight. anything. lamar monson tries to ignore her but american police officers have the right to lie to a suspect lying is a normal part of the process used to put suspects under pressure.
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i can lie to you about the evidence i can come i think i absolutely the courts allow me to live up to a point you know there's certain laws that are so outrageous that good not records are going to let it but i can tell you all kinds of lies i can tell you that we have 3 or 4 we have 4 witnesses who say that they saw you take the money and you're going to cock oftentimes it will come in with a file folder filled with papers doesn't matter what's in that file folder it could be take out menus from a restaurant ok and oftentimes there will be clipped on the top of that holder a d.v.d. ok and police officers will tell the suspect that there was a camera across the street that was filming the area where the crime occurred and that their images on the d.v.d.
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so there's technological evidence that police officers sometimes use other times they'll claim that they've had they found for your prints or blood evidence or d.n.a. evidence imagine a suspect in an interrogation and they're there for again some period of time that is uncomfortable and the police now are lying about the evidence that's suspect may we know full well that he didn't do anything wrong but he's starting to feel trapped and overwhelmed by this presentation of incriminating evidence thinking i didn't do this but they're claiming they've got evidence and whether this is a setup or what i've got to find a better way out anyway. he has been the victim of a high pressure sales tactics knows what this feels like anybody who says that they would never ever confess to a crime and do they haven't been under this sort of pressure.
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these tactics are relentless for lamar months some time seems to stand still the police detective offers him what appears to be a way out. she was saying she believed that i did do it and this she was willing to help me but i had to help her help me. so. again to give me a scenario. self-defense. she suggested or it probably helped my situation and then. she said if i would cooperate send a statement and i would be home by that time the next day. over a series of other techniques with the interrogator does he narrow it down for the suspect. to choices to pass oath of them involve
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the suspect admitting their guilt but one paints the suspect as an evil person on a monster a cold blooded remorseless killer and the other one provides an excuse for the suspect for why they committed the crime maybe it was self-defense maybe it was an impulsive act not a deliberate act not a premeditated act and over time you know with increasing pressure on the suspect. many suspects will accept the path of least resistance and accept a less heinous. explanation for why they can be taught to cry. during the theme we offer to the suspect psychological justification for the mission of the crime we don't legally justify it but we offer him a moral excuse that will minimize or justify in his own mind committing the crime
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and this should be done in a monologue format. it comes to the point where i'm doing this over and over and i start to see you getting to checked it and i get to the point where i think i need to come in with the final question my job my goal of the interrogation is to limit your options and to give you the. least a temporary perception that your only option is to confess to this crime. that's the best route for you to take. the whole process the words when we have a conversation we don't process literally what is said we process between the lines we process not what is said but what is implied when an interrogator says i think you're a good person i don't think you meant to do this i think it was an accident and by
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the way i would have done the same thing you're thinking oh this is no big deal i can confess and that's my easy way out here. and that's the point at which people confess. i was out of it they're. just ready to whatever you want to me to do maybe disarm sinusoid it in my mind. that he would be able to. it was necessary to show good i was innocent and i didn't commit this crime because i didn't commit the crime thank all the 30th of january 1996 at 6 o 2 am after 10 hours of interrogation detective obtains a single signature from lemoore monson in this document he explains that he involuntarily stabbed christina brown detective going in was subsequently removed
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