we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of their own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. as election day approaches there are growing concerns whether the album will be contested whether the election will be in the judgment we are told this election truly matters we're always told this however this time around there's a different feel there's an existential quality to disoblige how many voters will say not my president after november 3rd.

welcome to the united states of america we call this the free this country is home to the largest prison population in the world have more people in prison. for than we have colleges and universities one 3rd of all incarcerated females globally. are locked up here in the united states put that in perspective imagine all of los angeles and all of new york combined arrested every year. for. the you see them and if. you. read between the. first and. when it's not.

as an american citizen you don't have to be a murderer or a rapist or a thief to be arrested. if you call the police in an emergency and find yourself arrested just because the officer doesn't like you. my strongest memory my mom is she was very into teaching sharing. loved each other how to put my own life on the line to try to just say my mom's had i known anything like this was going to happen. and it was a day just like any other day. i went over to my parent's house normally when i went over my mom went right on the on the front porch to greet me. she didn't come to the door i was able to see her on the floor and she had been stabbed him beaten and left for dead. nose freaking out part of our time i am.

writing r r r r r r r r you know i was hysterical and i was yelling and screaming at the paramedics to hurry up and get her to the hospital so the doctors could do something to save her life. the police choke hold of me and him comfort me and put me in the car for my own safety a sense of when you call the authorities when something goes wrong you call for help and you put your full face on them i was. please i want to go to the hospital to be with my mom screaming crying you know. and he said no we have to go to vandalize police department the detective interrogated for 2 hours by the time he was done interrogating me she had died. so what would you do tell the cops whatever they want to know demand they release

you scream argue maybe even fight. i. number of citizen watched observe and record police misconduct their advice is to always be polite never engage with a neg rated or confrontational officer off the boat just respect it. and not the part that you understand me when i'm playing to a couple of my being detained or 3 to go she sees unusual behavior this is over i'm assuming i'm going to take my in my being detained or not go sir thank you if you're not being detained leave them you are being detained the police can legally lie to you so don't get into any conversation or start answering questions just ask for an it's heard here arrested never talk to any fight he went out and. says melanie was 42 years old in gardena california when she was accused of

a murder she didn't commit. the detective assigned to the case was relying on the testimony of one witness the whole case hinged on the word of one person june patty and everything patty said was inconsistent with every other lead every single lead put 3 gang members in the house. and no women said i was plain bad i was tanis and i do not believe in their nasty to people i do not know when i left my daughter and i just remember telling her that henri baby be back for dinner systems daughter jessica she said to me that she was going to be home for dinner and she. was home 17 years later. seen my children that was very hard on me. for all those years i'm still broken my heart still broken from a rethink i went through. i know it's so scary.

it was. the worst nightmare in my whole life. the bottom line is you have a right to be silent keep your mouth shut. because those words will be used against you to survive an interrogation you're going to be ready. i mean really. really against and we end aggression and intimidation i mean there are yet you never. want to get off the air no no matter how intimidated they get just say i want to speak to a lawyer and i hope you can afford a good one i don't have a not a good attorney it was a tribe i should have 2 places los angeles i looked like the actual shooter i resembled was the correct word i served possibly 9 years and 8 months in prison. if you don't have an adequate attorney your entire future rests in the hands of the

detectives assigned to your case the rewards of bruce willis for were used against him and you're dealing with a 17 year old kid and they were able to manipulate him and twist things my trees was assigned to a homicide detective who it was one of his 1st cases he hadn't even gone to homicide school yet with the l.a.p.d. and he'd jumped the gun and basically decided that because i was a long haired kid who looked like he spoke on which i did that i was a person who could attack my mother he must of all of his colleagues scrutinizing him looking at him how long it's going to take you to solve this one andy and what he did it minute stood me. in 1900. 18 years old living in south central l.a. with no criminal record when he was arrested for the murder of felipe angelus the only eyewitness was a man named john jones the owner of a brothel across the street known as johnny's house of prostitution how long is

this place been in operation about 17 years about 17 year. the police were willing to overlook what john johns was doing and john jones would be willing to play along with whatever the cops wanted him to do 16 years later a new theory would emerge the actual shooter was more likely john jones himself firing from the rooftop of his own building but the arresting officer on the case was sure the murderer was ready call it was her 1st her 1st case and she. needs close notifier to give her her shoe size. to be a doctor you have to go to school for many years to be a lawyer you have to go to school for the years i don't understand how somebody would just the high school diploma or ged can have that type of power to be an officer of the law with a pistol that can take someone's life literally or with the charge they put on

people they don't they don't feel the need to speak up because it doesn't happen to them oh yes that's messed you know me but it could never happen to me yes it could it could happen to you just like that. every staff member everybody that i encountered i was saying you know a mistake has been made i didn't do anything they going for phone calls to talk to my dad. you know from moment to moment. the reality that my mother's dead were were just bring an icy chill. first thing the next morning i was taken up front to talk to a psychologist or a psychiatrist and in this cheery kind of a voice he says so how do you feel about being here sylmar. and i said. you know are just beginning since the l.a.p.d. report stated that because stabbed his mother to death the doctor determined that this must be psychotic. was in health care as

a disk. race may it's more like a holiday show. the medical conditions inside of prisons in california been so bad for so long you talk about misdiagnosis just for barrick conditions so a district court in 2000 and shoot said that an outside agency had to come in and take over the entire medical system in the prisons today after spending billions of dollars some california prisons still fail to meet even the most basic constitutional standards for health care and if you have a soviet mental illness the united states of america is probably the worst place you want to be if you don't have the money to pay for a constant. danger of fisa law enforcement. here we're not. going to be some of us just a friend

a call bob polo us 16 times more likely to die when it counts with law enforcement and if you don't do it sounds odd more lively to lead in prison than ospital. the national sheriffs association got together with the treatment advocacy center they looked into it it turns out did the percent 50 percent of the people who are locked up have some kind of mental health issue and then i was medicated i was given mellaril which is like thorazine numbed my brain. then made into my. side effects of thorazine may include sedation slurred speech dizziness memory loss so the odds of fighting your case may be difficult hopefully you have someone on the outside working on your behalf it was kept in a single cell 23 hours a day for the next 19 days over their 2 visits together bruce and his father were confident they'd solve the murder. i met mike ryan in

a 12 step program that i was in. he didn't have a place to stay and let him stay on the couch in my apartment and he basically stopped paying any you know worked up my courage and said gotta do you have to go it's time to kick your sorry so i started like taking some of the stuff off the shelves and putting them in the boxes he grabbed me and put me into the bathroom door jam and held a knife to my throat and said if you ever touch my kid. was gone and i thought. god is gone my mom told my dad day before the murder that my gran had been there that day looking for money looking for food looking for you know we know it in our hearts identify my grandchild mom this is a this is the letter this card writes to monsoon after he's arrested he's behind bars just dear sir i'm sure it up by this point it has become apparent to you that i am not the murderer and this is very true to my ride as well as

a potential suspect when monsoon went to find ryan to interview him he tracked him down in a jail in mississippi where i think he was arrested for breaking into a woman's house his story was so full of holes i mean you could have driven a truck through it he said that he was sleeping on the streets he was leaving and cardboards until march 10th that he checked into a hollywood once which is 12 miles away from our house at around 11 am. in the long haul 30 more and all. i want to. hear is heard. in this. number suddenly at 3 pm on march 10th 4 hours after my mom is killed and robbed. he has money to check into a motel. leg

. length. i don't think that monsoor was out to get i think that he developed what detectives

called tunnel vision i had heard a lot of things about him being narrow minded. once he made his mind up there was no way of making him change his mind and so that that leads to some serious problems when you're dealing with a homicide investigation detective months to search on mike ryan's criminal record apparently using the wrong birthdate he had the wrong date of birth for him and if he had the right data birth and he checked criminal records back then he would've found just a few months prior to the dork a list for slaying ryan had allegedly held a knife to a friend's throat over $12.00 which you would think would cause you know detective to consider him a little more seriously you know for the defense he was investigating eventually like bruce you're going to have a detention here during which time a judge is going to make a determination as to whether you're going to stay in jail or you can be released while you wait your trial will listen that

a lot of money for attorneys you're not going anywhere basically you go in there with your hands tied behind your back because of the power that we give to police officers in this nation. his word carry the day to the constitution are supposed to guarantee history to try and prohibit the use of cruel and unusual punishment myself i spent 15 months before trial in the county jail i made a new word for this crime i was petron i was petrified and paranoid and at the same time surviving county jail. the 1st thing that you're going to want to do is get out. so whatever you have to do to get the money it's worth you definitely don't want to be. in the jumpsuit. a study of defendants in kentucky found that individuals in jail were over 3 times more likely to be sentenced to prison than those who are released and showed up for

court in regular clothes. they can charge over a dollar a minute calls to and from your lawyer your son or daughter or your dad would want to do any time in the county jail it's not fair because they don't treat you in any type of respect he's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty ok with this is a place where there's a show that. innocent until proven guilty regionally. nobody should ever be denied a trial and it was created as a protection against torturing people into confessions was established as a shield against mob mentality and which. in this presumption of innocence until proven guilty is the foundational notion of civil justice. was a teenager who was walking home from school someone accused him of stealing a backpack the police didn't do any investigating they just arrested him and the

next thing you know to the point of cost madeline known as do his family couldn't afford the $10000.00 bail he missed his sister's wedding the birth of his nephew and so many family events after nearly 3 years of unimaginable torture incarcerated without a trial he was finally offered a deal if you would plead guilty they'd let him go she told me if. i could get. jail in june he was suddenly free with no explanation no apology no nuffin they just said. don't worry about. 3 years and. the new yorker reported the cliff's relatives said it was inflicted by paranoia suspecting cops or other authority figures were. after a few years after he was released from wreckers island browder took his own life. the 8th amendment to the us constitution is also supposed to guarantee us the right

to be free from excessive bail. bail is money that you temporarily loan or give the courts as collateral to guarantee they are going to show up for your trial like the rest of the this idea that you're supposed to be free from excessive bail is a right that's regularly violated by our criminal justice system meanwhile the billboard industry is making profits of $2000000000.00 a year. what we would need is at least for you to be employed 2 years on the job what you do need to pay is going to be tempered. after 30 days in custody because finally had the opportunity to post. bail was set at $250000.00. or as father had the money i was scared i was so frightened the whole way down i just thought this is. you know i keep using the

word nightmare but i mean. this could be the end of my life i don't know i don't know the most important game and so you used to protect your so don't talk to be this is temp is going to elaborate on the most important rule of all. in 1986 tim was 19 years old he got involved with a girl who was in some trouble she's living with this guy she starts insinuating that she's been sexually abused her like a dummy i'm contemplating going to get her stuff she says that he's got a gun so you know you've got to be careful the guy that we're going with this take our own guns they start wrestling over this gun i step out of the bathroom. fight or flight. no skewes is just dumb this is there's no excuse for it i did there's no excuse pulled out my gun i start shooting and listens to 25 years life me

california prison system tends 1st advice to new fish as simple star with you got 2 eyes and 2 airs and one mouth. so you should be seen in here and a whole lot more than you're saying if you don't take that advice usually going to dig yourself a hole. was put in a cell alone i started hearing this scraping sound gets louder and louder new persists and finally you know there's a hole in the wall now and i'm like the me alone youngster you know what's up my name's bobby these i'm a christian you have to worry about me i'm ok one cigarette you smoke and he wants the bible study with me and he read the bible and about hope and about now truth basically had told him everything that i was arrested for but you're turning to him for years and not much you said here still you know he was was help you with your case anything that i could do and you know by the way do you have any money that i

could you know i don't have any money in and you know if you can help me out with some money my dad put money on his books for him and i might turn it comes down and has a tape recorder and pushes play. and it's robert hughes on the tape saying listen here in the 7000 model of the county jail and and you know he he ran down how he killed his mom. my jaw is just on the table i can't believe it this is my friend this robert hughes is christian this is good guy my case was the 4th case 4th defendant against whom robert hughes had come forward and claimed a confession in the span of about a year and a half i think for about a decade prosecutors had this corrupt alliance with jailhouse informants who would . either make up or try to solicit confessions from fellow inmates and then use that information to try to get leniency on their own case their own sentence there

was a shift in my attorney with the tape robert hughes he gave up on me. i saw it in his eyes. i saw his eyes. those had been incarcerated now for a year as long as it's been which was in comprehensible to me that anybody can spend a day let alone close to a year on bars for something he didn't do now i have another year to wait potentially and so much trial one of the times when i came back up front juvenile hall when they were seated me said wait a minute the date of birth here this guy is over 18 he can't associate with other minors because bruce is now an adult they put in the box which means solitary confinement. to a state wide prisoner hunger strike began 11 days ago at a protest over terri confinement conditions and now more than 2300 inmates are refusing to eat solitary confinement prison. 6 but.

everything is made of even. in their 23 hours days an hour out for recreation. you can be put into solitary confinement for any. prison guard just get. shamed our as an american who was arrested in iran for accidentally hiking across their border they put him in solitary confinement i would definitely say that the situation california is more extreme the cells in california are smaller than the cell i was in iran and there's no windows and it sells in california the whole is considered torture by amnesty international and the united nations this is anthony graves he's an innocent man who was wrongfully convicted and. spent 16 years in solitary no one can begin to imagine the psychological effects isolation has another human being 95 percent of americans who

spend time in solitary report developing a serious psychiatric condition guys become paranoid schizophrenia in case leap because they hear voices your more than 5 times more likely to commit suicide in iraq and i know of nobody being in solitary confinement for more than 2 years which is an extremely long period of time but in california in pelican bay state prison the average time is 7 and a half years. the 2 years bruce had been waiting for his child and gone over to this head day after day the judge would say but a jury would think when they had the transcript of detective months his interrogation of my client that's all they need to hear. all the lies all the inconsistency there would be no way he wouldn't be found innocent except the prosecutor filed a motion to deny goosestep right to make any mention of my client's name at the

trial 'd on the grounds that we couldn't tie my crime to the crime judge turns to my attorney what evidence do you have that mark runs times of this is well he was in the county he could have done it and the judge goes is that all you have because he didn't take the time to read the transcript or he was just on autopilot he was not paying attention he was an engaged he says yeah that's it and so. we couldn't tie my client to the crime that was the framework for my trial it is an absolute joke the resources prosecutors are persons defense attorneys just i'm brooks is the director of the california innocence project a nonprofit group dedicated to helping wrongfully convicted americans get out of prison prosecutors have a police force at their disposal as their investigators there they get the case. from the 1st moment it's being investigated they have access to all the people who are involved in that defense comes late to the date we are at a total disadvantage the 6th amendment to the us constitution is supposed to

guarantee the right to effective counts but as we're seeing in america you have to buy your rights you're more likely to walk free if you're rich and guilty and you are if you're poor and the evidence is detected months they're telling is robert hughes telling his lies. and no alternate suspects. and so i'm screwed. they're charging me with 1st degree murder which carries 26 years to life in state prison that's longer than i'm going to live. a day and a half in my attorney comes to me in the holding tank and says the judge is willing to entertain a guilty plea in exchange for you through any sentence going to that as a guilty plea which you know minus a guilty plea. i hear you and close friend of the family my father's best friend comes to the juvenile hall and says you have to you have to accept this plea is the number going to have anything and in doing you know he says look any pounds hand

down on the on the bench that we're sitting on. those they are going to convict you of 1st degree murder unless you plead guilty. he's practically crying as a minor. he was looking to do whatever you have to do to get home. as election day approaches there are growing concerns whether the outcome will be contested whether the election will be an agenda that we are told this election truly matters we're always told this however this time around there's a different feel there's an existential all the teeth to disallow action how many voters will say not my president after november 3rd. my name is sucking. on the social media that's jackson's orthodoxy itself.

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