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 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 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 the marks on

her. medication. with no evidence or witness statements against him on the 7th of march 1997 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. and believe that this is going to pay. off fish and that i would not want to be in prison on. something that i wouldn't wish him off worst enemy just being processed for you to go into a sale. the whole process of a distressed i'm comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from.

and tell 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 letters and in his calls did everything he said do for her she never had to work for anything because a father was not around. and she was upset and angry home mother too was because them are wasn't 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 good in the world for nothing but myths and of.

20 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. 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 carried. and the made it and. i'm outta here me i'm tellin om i'm not on holiday and that. 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 meant covered in

blood the end. and then the mad. and the local piece of them out go away. with it on the. boots on. busy the. left and the males. they he just killed. me. you know wrong as it is. whatever else he was charged with i feel like 18 year he is. there with too much. i'm the one that told him that the girl was not fair she was beat they they had and

he. no he did not. care. 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 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 in 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 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 not only was it covered in blood but there were bloody fingerprints all over it nobody had ever bothered to test and so this student you know saying dave look there's a bloody fingerprint right there and i 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 is fingerprints. this can state police have new technology and they found none. and all of

them belonged to robert louis and none of them belonged to lamar 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. for the not. going to work thing we need to find. in your will thanks to this new evidence the 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 playing and asked for and seeing things develop in before my ass witness come for 5 to 12 years evidence. just by i'm feel a vendor kate it 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 still about 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. all jews knew was called to ask for is 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 the field your mom always there she was in waiting to get that hope your mom right now it's all about that emotion. or 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 54 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. live. live. live. live live.

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live live. lift. and very well welcome to you watching on since last. you seen this before in the eighty's with the rise of japan and the us had a response they rejiggered the global currency markets that the plaza accord this was reagan and robert rubin the same people i gave us the plunge protection team after the crash of 1987 so china does seem to be wanting to play that game so they're going to have to come up with some other strategy that's the moment appear on the rise of. monson's name is cleared for good. robert lewis the man whose fingerprints were found at the scene as 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've 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 22 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 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 hurt people. that try to keep families together and separate or it doesn't matter how out. the country is i'm sure. we live with certain notions of justice. of what the law says what we all believe in our hearts. that the person really responsible for something as innocent as the murder of a 12 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 innocents claims and the person responsible is known and named in the current police department 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. turns on 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 in my 20 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 i can never get back no matter how much money i have 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 in this ng if we don't use that awful loss the memories that often lost i mean to this day if a pang has any of my telephotos she would say she has none because the court has them one of 3 trials and it's time to go to trial when nordstrom is the one who photos you want to show you human side. i don't have no records of my upbringing as they took. my lies down to january 6th 2012 that's when my life

that's when i have record of who i am. surrounded by family members and cameras repair i walked out of state bill correctional center a free man all i want to do is enjoy my time with my family man it's been 20 years of separation and this is a new beginning for me so this may be one of those people not a few last month. turn to. that end of the world. so. $20000000.00 is not enough it never will be nor any amount because again is the memories they 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 circumstance because they yes i was an innocent person going to prison is a natural a sentence for something that is new so that was this added bonus to my. going into prison 1st of all i'm going to an environment that is unnatural to me unknown and very very scary. second i'm going in there for murder. her. name for 11 year old child so as if they got 3 strikes against him in prison they don't like me. but if they do i guess them twice when i was in prison. 2 it's embraced on me of course i had to fight him off thank god then i defied him

off. in prison records this is what i had so we do what i was 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 1000 year old kid. understand what the hell was going on shows you the character of mankind you know i'm going to this day i still have difficulties in trust because if you was willing to kill me then mission me in that you are not willing to kill me now i mean i got death threats. are going to live my life by smiling and watching my back because people still want to hurt. is the ins and outs i know that because they do it to me

constantly while i'm walking in the streets and i get in the bridges 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 still think you killed that child so this is what i have to live with but still yet i got to smile. in 2015 when the results of d.n.a. analyses allowed want to be exonerated for good polly staker is a real killer still. rooms free and no police officer seems to be searching for him out of the $20000000.00 that juan 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 were in my case as well it's attorneys if all retired with a 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 much a wall of retired and they gave him a plaque for good job busy. there's a culture of. an accountability and police officers know that they can engage and 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 again and states still yet it goes a victim. have because 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 is the operative 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 right 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 them 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 member ask in 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 or allowed to lie to

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. what

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