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 in them or come. in with february first. twenty seventeen and i was there and he was released. on holiday in credit. and i credit my son is free at last. i just knew was a call to ask for is something being we've been waiting or something we've been up just prayed for the longest on the fall you came and i just said i can only get the glory to go up to the field your mom always said she was in waiting to get up to hold your mom right now it's all about that emotion. i go words to express is one of been a mark on all my life there's a lot more life and i'm just glad she finally got some happy to be happy about. oh it's a wonderful feeling. i've had now. twenty two of these cases altogether seventeen since we started the clinic and i had five. 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 who w

and all of them belonged to robert louis and none of them belonged to lamar munson 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 nasty prosecutor. he couldn't do anything with this you should have seen the prosecutors struggle to answer the forensics that came from no less than the mistaken state police crime lab. it was powerful stuff and it was a day for celebration. in the northern. plains. we need to find. a new rule thanks to this new evidence more monson is granted a new trial in january two thousand and seventeen after a one day hearing the court decides to exonerate lamar monson. surreal for me because these things i've been praying and asking and seeing things develop in before my ass witness come for five to twelve years evidence. despite phil event the cape it in my spirit you know and i'm feeling good. i don't have the truth but 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 kno

lamar munson sees that he is about to be caught in a trap police detective joan going places a file on the table. another brought to her office. and. she said 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 begins you against me and i'm like. ok. i don't know what that is book 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. for 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. i can lie. about the evidence i can tell 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 lead it but i can tell you all on of lies i can tell you that we had three or four we have four 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 m

on the seventh of march one thousand nine hundred ninety seven lamar munson is sentenced to fifty 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 asian and i would not want to be in prison on. something that i wouldn't wish him off worst enemy.