ah, welcome to the united states of america. we call this land of the free, but this country is home, a largest prison population in the world war people in prison. one and 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. the you need to tell you, read the whole you can open read between the person in the car who as an american citizen,

you don't have to be a murder or rapist or a thief to be arrested. you can call the police in an emergency and find yourself arrested just because the officer doesn't like you me my strongest memory. my mom is she was very teaching and sharing. we loved each other. i would have put my own life on the line to try this. say, my mom's had i known anything like this was going to happen. and it was a day just like any other day went over to my parents house. normally when i went over my mom, which had on the, on the front porch to greet me and that day she didn't come to the door that was able to see her on the floor. and she had been stabbed and beaten, and left for dead. and i was freaking out right about the, 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. and the police show called me and handcuffed me and put me in the car for my own safety, extensively. he called the authorities when something goes wrong, i mean, you call for help and you put your faith in them. i was calling the police. 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 ben as police department. the detective interrogated boost for 2 hours, but by the time he was interrogating me, she had died. so what would you do? tell the cause whatever they want to know, demand they release, you scream, argue maybe the fight,

the number of citizen watchdog groups will observe and record police misconduct. their advice is to always be polite, never engage with an aggravated or confrontational officer, just for 2nd batch. and mike department, you understand me when i'm walking to ask my be entertained or my free to go unusual behavior over. i'm assuming i'm being detained in my being detained or not . thank you. if you're not, be entertain, leave immediately. you are being detained. the police can legally lie to you, so don't get into any conversation and start answering questions. just ask for an attorney. here arrest never talk to any party without an attorney. there doesn't melon was 42 years old in gardena, california when she was accused of murder, she didn't commit the detective assigned to the case was relying on the testimony

of one witness. the whole case hinge on the word of one person, june patty, and everything to patty said was inconsistent with every other lead. every single lead. put 3 gang members in the house and no women. i was clean that i was. i do not believe me to please believe i do not believe when i left my daughter there, i just remember to under that don't worry baby. i'll be back for dinner. susan's daughter and jessica, she said to me that she was going to be home for dinner and she was home 17 years later to feed my children. that was very hard on me for all those years. i'm still broken. my heart still broken from everything. i went through. no, it's so scary. it was the worst my,

my whole life i bottom lies. you have a right to be silent. keep your mouth shut. because those words will be used against you can live and interrogation. you gotta be ready to stand your ground against bullying, aggression and intimidation, the lawyer no matter how intimidating they get. just say i want to speak to a lawyer and i hope you can afford a good one. i didn't have a not a good attorney. it was a drive by shooting to police east los angeles. i looked like the actual shooter resembled, was the correct word. i served personally 9 years in 8 months. if you don't have an adequate attorney, your entire future rest in the hands, the detective assigned to your case. the rewards of bruce less 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 case 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 jumped the gun and basically decided that because i was a long her kid who looked like the smoke pot, which i did that i was the person who had attacked my mother. he must have all of his colleagues scrutinizing him, looking at him, how long it's going to take you to solve this one, andy. and he did it in minutes, sydney, ah, in 1094. reggie cole is 18 years old, living in south central l. a. no criminal record. when he was arrested for the murder of felipe angeles, the only i witness was a man named john jones, the owner of a bravo, across the street, and known as johnny's house of prostitution. i want his place been an operation my 17 year about 17 year. the police were willing to overlook one john jones were

doing than 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 reggie call. it was her 1st, her 1st case and she needed clothes. okay. it's in order for her to get her her shoe to be a doctor. you have to go to school for many years to be a lawyer. you have to go to school for many years. i don't understand how somebody with just a 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 charges they put on people. they don't, they don't feel the need to speak up because it does, it happened to them or last semester, you know, mean,

but it never happened to me. yes. it could. it could happen to you. yes. like that . every staff member, everybody that i encountered, i was saying, you know, mistake has been made. i didn't do anything begging for phone calls to talk to my dad. you know, from moments a moment to reality. my mother's dad would just 3 and i see jim. busy first thing the next morning, i was taken up front and talked to a psychologist or a psychiatrist and in the cheery kind of voices. so how do you feel about being here at sylmar? and i said, are you kidding? since the l a. p d report stated that booth stabbed his mother to death. the doctor determined that bruce must be psychotic. busy who isn't help

me? it's more like a house show the the medical conditions inside of prisons in california been so bad for so long. you're talking about miss diagnosis just for barrick conditions. so a district court in 2002 said that an outside agency had to come in and take over the entire medical system in the prison today, after spending billions of dollars, some california prison still fail to meet even the most basic constitutional standards for health care if you have a soviet mental illness, the united states of america, probably the worst place you want to be, that you don't have the money to pay for constant care. you in danger, face a law enforcement officer over here. we saw he's vision, i go search, i guess a funny call bob pola. you are 16 times more likely to die when accounts when law

enforcement and if you don't die, you 10 times more likely to land in prison than ospital. the national sheriff's association got together with the treatment advocacy center. they looked into it. it turns out 50 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 mel room, which is like dorothy numbed my brain. very docile inmate at that point. warning side effects of stores the 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 who's was kept in a single cell 23 hours a day for the next 19 days over there to visit together. bruce and his father were confident they'd solve the murder. i met mike ryan and it's well 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 rent, you know, worked up my courage. and so i got it. you have to go it's, you know, i have to kick your sorry. so i started like taking some of the stuff off the shelves and putting them in the boxes, the grammy and put me against the bathroom door jamb and the knife to my throat. instead, if you ever touch my kill you and he was gone and i saw god. he's gone. my mom told my dad to day before the murder that mike ryan had been there that day looking for money looking for food. because you know, we know it in our hearts i down and i my grandchild, my mom, this is, this is the letter cisco right to month to after keep the rest of these behind bars . and i'm sure that by this point, it has become apparent to you that i am not the murderer. and this is where i turned them on to ryan as a, as a potential suspect. when mon too went to find ryan to interview him,

he tracks 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 and he said that he was sleeping on the streets, you sleeping and carports until march 10th, when he checked into hollywood motel, which is 12 miles away from our house at around 11 am. on thursday morning. i wanted to check in for 3 or a member suddenly at 3 pm on more staff, 4 hours after my mom was killed and robbed. he has money to 2nd motel. ah

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why don't i just don't rule out the thing because the after an engagement equals the trail, when so many find themselves well, the part we choose to look for common ground in witnessing a very disturbing media trend serving an ideology and scoring political points trumps. informing citizens we had the rush gate hoax, the impeachment hoax, and the suppression of any debate on the origin of coven now front and center is the capitol hill, ryan. what does the f b? i know the me.

i don't think that mom to was out to get list or i think that he develop what detect is 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 man who did a search on mike ryan's criminal record. apparently using the wrong birth date, he had the wrong date of birth for him. and if he had the right date of birth, any check, criminal records back then he would have found that just a few months prior to the dork lisk or slay ryan had allegedly held the knife to a friend's throat over $12.00, which you would think would cause a detective to consider him a little more seriously. you know, for the offense he was investigating, eventually like you're going to have a detention hearing 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. well, unless you have 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 do is supposed to guarantee is to be the trial and prohibit the use of a cruel and unusual punishment myself. i spent 15 months before trial in the county . do i made a new word? it's called i was petra noise. i was petrified and paranoid at the same time surviving county jail. the 1st thing that you're gonna want to do is get out. so whatever you have to do to get the money, it's worth it. you definitely don't want to be on a trout in the jump suit. one cuffs study of defendants and kentucky, found that individuals in jail were over 3 times more likely to be sentenced to

prison than those who were released and showed up for court and regular clothes. they can charge over a dollar a minute calls to and from your lawyer, your son daughter, your mom or your dad. i wouldn't want to do any tom and accounting at all. it's not bearable because they don't treat you with any type of respect, like he's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. ok with this is a place where they show that me innocent until proven guilty originally meant 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 foundational notion of civil justice. cliff router was a teenager. he was walking home from school when someone accused of stealing

a back back, the police didn't do any investigating. they just arrested him. and the next thing, you know, the appointment caused mal renewed his 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 he would plead guilty, they'd let him go. she told me if i lose trial, i can get 50 years to take the time, sir, when you go home today, you say you did, i didn't do. i'm not. i'm not saying i did jail in june. he was suddenly free with no left lanesha, no apology, no nothing. they just said, oh, case dismissed. don't worry about like, what do you mean a worry about i just took over 3 years of my life. the new yorker reported the cliffs. relatives study was inflicted by paranoia. spect and cops or other authority figures were after a few years after he was released from rancorous island calif router and took his

own life amendment to the us constitution is also supposed to guarantee the rate to be free from excessive bail. bail is money that you're temporarily loan, or give the course of collateral to guarantee that you're going to show up for your trial. like the rest of the 8th amendment. this idea of you're supposed to be free from excessive bail is a rate that's regularly violated by our criminal justice. meanwhile, the bail bond industry is making profits of $2000000000.00 a year. mm. 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 10 percent after 30 days in custody. bruce finally had the opportunity to post bare bail was set at $250000.00. neither goose or his father had the money. i was scared. i was

so frightened the whole way down. i just thought this is you know, keep using were nightmare but i mean, this could be the end of my life. i don't know. i don't know. the most important thing that i can tell you is to protect yourself. don't talk to people. this is, tim cannot elaborate on the most important rules, all the in 1986 him with 19 years old. he got involved with a girl who was in trouble. she's living with this guy. she starts insinuating that she's being sexually abused. like a dummy i'm contemplating going and getting her stuff. she says that he's got a gun, so you gotta be careful. the guy that we're going with, he's classical with his take on guns. they start wrestling over this gun. i step out of the bathroom, fight or flight. no excuses, just done. this is there is no excuse for i did. there is no excuse pulled out. my

gun. i start shoot and listen to 25 year slice me counseling prison system. tim's 1st advice to new fish is simple. start with. you got 2 eyes and 2 ears 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, you're going to dig yourself a whole. wasn't putting this out alone. i started hearing a scraping sound, gets louder and louder and in for service. and finally it was a hole in the wall now. and i'm like, leave me alone. a youngster, what's up? my name is bobby, i'm a christian. you don't have to worry about me. i'm okay. want to cigarette smoke and he wants to bible study with me. he was reading the bible and about hope and about now truth. basically, i told him everything that i was arrested for. what's your attorney doing for yes and not much i'm sitting here still, you know, while i 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 and you know, if you can help me out with some money, my dad put money on his books for him and my attorney comes down and has a tape recorder and pushes play. and it's robert hughes on the tape. i met mr in the 7000 module 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. it's robert hughes. christian is a good guy. my case was the 4th case, 4th defendant, against whom robert hughes had come forward and plan the 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 tried to solicit confessions from fellow inmates and then use that

information to try to get on the, on their own case. their own sentence. there was a shift in my attorney with the tape of robert hughes. he gave up on me. i saw it in his eyes. i started last booth, had been incarcerated now for a year. as long as it's been, which was in comprehensible to me that anybody could spend a day let alone close to a year, find bars for something i didn't do. now i have another year to wait, potentially, and so much trial. one of the times that i came back up front juvenile hall when they were receiving me said, wait a minute, the date of birth here. this guy's over 18. she can associate with other minors. because bruce's now an adult, they put booth in the box, which means solitary confinement. the statewide prisoner hunger strike began 11 days ago as a protest over solitary confinement condition. and now more than $2300.00 inmates

or refusing to eat solitary confinement. it's a prison. within the prison. you're locked in 6 by 9. everything is made of concrete. even the bed, you're locked in there. 23 hours a day, one hour out for restoration. you can be put into solitary confinement for anything. yes, prison guard my just got you seen bowers, an american 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, in iran, there's no windows in the cells 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, 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 thank hattrick condition. guys become parallel. get the freedom in case sleep because of the hearing voices. you're more than 5 times more likely to commit suicide in iran. 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. 02 years had been waiting for his trial been gone over in his head day after day. the judge would say, what a jury would think when they heard the transcript of detective mom says interrogation of my cry, and that's all they need to hear. other lies all the inconsistencies. there would be no way he wouldn't be found innocent. except the prosecutor filed

a motion to deny bruce the right to make any mention of my client's name at the trial. ready on the grounds that we couldn't tie mike ryan to the crime, judge turns my attorney, whatever it is. do you have the mike right tied to this as 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 and he was just on auto pilot. he was not paying attention, he wasn't engaged. he says, yeah. and said, we couldn't tie mike ryan to the crime. that was the framework for my child. it is an absolute joke. the resources prosecutors have versus justin 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 the defense comes late to the day. we are at

a total disadvantage, the 6th amendment to the us constitution. it's supposed to guarantee the right to effective counsel. but as we're seeing in america, you have to buy your rates. you're more likely to walk free if you're rich and guilty than you are if you're poor. and the evidence is to take them on to telling his lies robert hughes, telling his lies and know alternate suspect. and so i'm screwed. they're charging me with 1st degree murder, which carries 26 years to life. and stay longer that i've been alive a day. and a half in my attorney comes to me in the holding tank and says, the judge is willing to entertain the guilty plea in exchange for a youth for a talk with my dad. i started guilty plea, but you know, take a guilty plea and he said i, i hear you and a close friend of mine, of the family. my father's best friend comes to the juvenile home and says,

you have to, you have to accept this play. so now i can, except anything i didn't do anything, you know, he says look any pounds at hand down on the bench that we're sitting off. they are going to convert you a 1st degree murder. unless you plead guilty. and he's, he's practically crying as he was like, do whatever you have to do to get home ah, doing the breathing and then take a pool in the hill. and i don't know where it goes back to the bridge and in the range they were just diamond fields rector mark. read to me. is that you

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