i saw dozens of them and it wouldn't surprise me at all the thrill 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. it. 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. 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

wouldn't wish him off worst enemy just being processed for you to go into a sale on the whole process of a distressed home i'm comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from. you one thing about them are. i think that the last time he saw his daughters they will look at the cartoons but everything he told me to do for her. in the letters 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 them are was in here to help her train. it's daughter

and they can 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 missing her. 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 kristina brown's murder. 2 months before i retired after 33 years in terms of that she called me on the phone it was one of the more shocking calls i'd ever taken. as an investigator do 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 the navy and. i'm not 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 shalane a claims to have seen lewis return from kristina brown subpart mint covered in blood the end. and then a little bit of open and the local piece of them out go away. with it on the. boots on. if he is the most. male. he just killed. very employ me then. you know wrong as it is. whatever else

he was charged with i feel like 18 year he covered that 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 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 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. a likely murder instrument was the ceramic toilet tank with a heavy ceramic toy exactly 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 this is didn't 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 that are and they look a lot like robert louis his fingerprints. and state police and new technology and they've. 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 versus what someone might say because one is irrefutable the other can always be cut down by a. that's the 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. in the north. or on its way into court thank you we need to find. a new rule thanks to this new evidence one 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 and before my last witness come for 5 to 12 years evidence. despite. phil event the cape it in my spirit you know and i'm feeling good. i know the truth and now everybody knows the truth and so that was a blessing you know people that stood by me. feel 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 pray. and i ask. please let me live in america. and when february 1st came 2017 and i was there and he was released. on holiday in credit. and i credit my son is free at last. called also for something being we've been away to something we've been up to supreme court along. with all the good to glory to go up to the field your mom always there she was in waiting to get that to hold your mom right now talk about

that emotion. and go words to express was warm and been a mark on all my life a lot more lies and i'm just glad she finally got some happy to be happy about. oh it's a wonderful feeling. i've had now. 22 of these cases all together 17 since we started the clinic and i had 5 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 the attorneys who work on the case. officer. told them to get up off the ground or begin to. hurt them freeze on the sounds of. the grown man mislead essentially.

pushed it away from the officer. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the web in one smiths and then when it happened on trace one and i didn't i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again 15 feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled his gun and even turned 3. she'll welcome you. normal guy called. a member of the real world will know well

you know but what if in your ocean cruise it. was a march. toward. the in the. city for times to. meet you wolf yes yes. that's what i wanted something very unusual for that is which. a few of the local wishing. you all are one with your means he has the chance to talk a little sheepish chipped a little. lucas i wish you. that. you don't. care for. monson's name is

cleared for good. robert louis the man whose fingerprints were found at the scene as to this day still not been indicted. then 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 that the dumbest prosecutor in the world could win a conviction pretty easily. they've made it clear they're not going to charge him because charging him would be admitting they got it wrong with our bonds. 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

stopper. 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 50 years. they don't care. all they want to do is get away and hurt people. that try to keep families together at separate or it doesn't matter how. the country is in trouble. we live with certain notions of justice. of what the law says and what we all believe in our hearts. that the person really

responsible for something as innocent as the murder of it will be will be 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 very 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 then 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 sup. 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 this i. decided to you know settle it with as i was asked by the news

media you know is the 20000000 that is enough and i'll tell you if i tell them you know what you could keep it 2020 years back i miss my city's. a miss my nieces and nephews. mother was at the time my father was lost my grandparents you know there's a lot of things that i miss and family. that i can never get back no matter how much money i you know they can offer me a 100000000 dollars when they come from yes it has given me comfort but there's nothing in my years. and 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 now of 3 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 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 want ribeiro walked out of state bill correctional center a free man all i want to do is enjoy my time with my family my has been. 20 years is a separation and this is a new beginning for me that's what it's great if you want to. not appeal last month . during the conviction that editor burgess you were. so. $20000000.00 is not enough it never will be an offer nor any amount because again is the memories there. 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 this 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 of unknown and very very scary. second i'm going into for murder. her rape. and then for 11 years so as if they got 3 strikes against him in prison they don't like me. 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 that i did find a mom. is 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 1000 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 trusting him because if he was willing to kill me then i miss 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 doing to me ask me 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 to have free when i still think you killed that there is so this is what i want 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 roams free and no police officer seems to be searching for him out of the $20000000.00 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 vision no criminal charges nothing i see extended into a job they need to hire and major tenants to his is very much want to retire and they gave him a plaque for good job busy. 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 again and states still yeah it goes a victim. having closed idea is still open for the me i might get credit would i

have credibility but what about her family do they even care no they're not even searching for the person they get these thoughts 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 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 and 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 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 we spawns back so it's a horrible practice that that goes on all the time and in the u.s. 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. because

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