Los angeles and all of new york combined arrested every year. On. The new years eve a man if. Not repeat. Still pretty. Much. As an american citizen you dont 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 doesnt like you. My strongest memory my mom is she was very into teaching sharing. Love to each other how to put my own life on the line to try to just say my moms 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 parents house normally when i went over my mom went right on the on the front porch to greet me. That they she didnt 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 and 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 because 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 1st of all just respect it. And not the part that you understand me when im playing to a couple of my being detained or 3 to go as she sees unusual behavior this is over im assuming im going to take my in my being detained or not go surfing you if youre not being detained leave them you are being detained the police can legally lie to you so dont get into any conversation or start answering questions just ask for an its heard. Never talk to any body without an attorney there. Susan mellon was 42 years old in gardena california when she was accused of a murder she didnt 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 planing that i was standing stand and i do not believe in their nasty to people i do not know when i left my daughter there i just remember telling her that baby out 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 im still broken my heart still broken from a rethink i went through. And i know its 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 youre going to be ready. I mean really. Really i guess and we end aggression and intimidation i mean there are yet you never. Want to go 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 dont have a not a good attorney it was a tribe i should have to place East 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 dont have an adequate attorney your entire future rests in the hands of the detective assigned to your case the rewards of bruce willis were used against him and youre 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 hadnt even gone to Homicide School yet with the l. A. P. D. And hed jumped the gun and basically decided that because i was a long haired kid who looked like the slow pot which i did and i was a person who could attack my mother he must of all of his colleagues scrutinizing him looking at him how long its going to take you to solve this one andy and what he did minutes did 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 johnnys house of prostitution i want this place been in operation about 17 years about 17 year. The police were willing to overlook was 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 closure because the notifier give her her shoe size him. To be a doctor you have to go to school for many years to be a lawyer you have to go to school 14 years i dont 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 someones life literally or with the charge they put on people they dont they dont feel the need to speak up because it doesnt happen to them oh yes thats 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 didnt do anything they going for phone calls to talk to my dad. You know from moment to moment. The reality that my mothers dead were would just bring an icy chill. The 1st 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 is so more. Than 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 its more like a holiday show. For 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 dont have the money to pay for a constant care. And danger of fisa Law Enforcement. Here were not. 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 dont 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 issues and then i was medicated i was given mellaril which is like thorazine numbed my brain. In many. 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 but this 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 theyd solve the murder. I met mike ryan in a 12 step program that i was in. He didnt 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 its time to get your sorry so i started like taking some of the stuff off the shelves and putting them in the boxes and he grabbed me and put me against the bathroom door jam and held a knife to my throat and said if you ever touch my. He was gone and i thought. God is gone my mom told my dad day before the murder that mike rann 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 hes arrested hes behind bars and just dear sir im sure that up by this point it has become apparent to you that i am not the murder and this is very traditional and riot as a potential suspect when monsoor 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 womans 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 sleeping and cardboards until march 10th the checked into a hollywood months which is 12 miles away from our house at around 11 am. In the long haul 30 or more all right. Here early on. 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. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy going from day shouldnt let it be an arms race based on often this very Dramatic Development the only place really. Im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business im show business ill see you then. I dont think that monsoon 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 youre dealing with a Homicide Investigation detective monsoon did a search on mike ryans criminal record apparently using the wrong birthdate he had the wrong date of birth for him and if he had the right data birth any check criminal records back then he would have found just a few months prior to the dork alister slaying ryan had allegedly held a knife to a friends 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 youre going to have a detention here during which time a judge is going to make a determination as to whether youre going to stay in jail or you can be released while you wait your trial will listen that a lot of money for attorneys youre 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 a speedy trial 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 perpetually i was petrified and paranoid and at the same time having county jail. The 1st thing that youre going to want to do is get out. So whatever you have to do to get the money its worth you definitely dont want to be. In the. Us 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 your dad would want to do the county jail its not fair because they dont treat you in any type of respect hes supposed to be innocent until Proven Guilty ok with this is a place where theres a show that. 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 it was established as a shield against mob mentality and witch hunts. In this presumption of innocence until Proven Guilty is the foundational notion of civil justice. Was a teenager he was walking home from school someone accused him of stealing a backpack the police didnt do any investigating they just arrested him and then next thing you know to point out a win notice do his family couldnt afford the 10000. 00 bail he missed his sisters 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 she told me if. I could get. The jail in june he was suddenly free with no explanation no apology no nuffin they just said. Dont worry about. The new yorker report of the cliffs relatives said he was inflicted by paranoia suspecting cops or other authorities said. 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 to going to show up for your trial like the rest of the men of this idea are supposed to be free from excessive bail is a right thats 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 bush finally had the opportunity to post. Bail was set at 250000. 00. Or his 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 dont know i dont know the most important game and so you is to protect your so dont talk to be this is temp hes 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 shes living with this guy she starts insinuating that shes been sexually abused her like a dummy im contemplating going to get her stuff she says that hes got a gun so you know got to be careful the guy that were going with is like last school 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 theres no excuse for it i did theres no excuse pulled out my guy and i start shit and listens to 25 years life in 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 youre saying if you dont take that advice usually going to dig yourself a hole. Was put in a cell alone i started hearing a scraping sound gets louder and louder new persists and finally use a hole in the wall now and im like the me alone youngster you know whats up my name is bobby hes im a christian you have to worry about me im 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 which youre turning to and for years and not much you said here still use was help you with your case anything that i can do and you know by the way do you have any money that i could you know i dont 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 my attorney comes down and has a tape recorder and pushes play. And its Robert Hughes on the tape saying im in liskeard 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 cant believe it this is my friend this Robert Hughes this christian this 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 of 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 its been which was in comprehensible to me that anybody can spend a day let alone close to a year behind bars for something he didnt 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 receiving me said wait a minute the date of birth here this guys over 18 he cant associate with other minors because bruce is now an adult they put those in the box which means solitary confinement. 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 concrete even if youre locked in there 23 hours days an hour out for recreation. You can be put into solitary confinement for any. Prison guard just get. Shamed ours an american who was arrested in iran for accidentally hiking across their border they put them in solitary confinement i would definitely say that the situation in california is more extreme the cells in california are smaller than the cell i was in iran and theres no windows in the cells in california the whole is considered torture by Amnesty International and the United Nations this is anthony graves hes 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 has become paranoid schizophrenia. 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. 16 years bruce had been waiting for his trial 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 thats all they need to hear. All the lies all the inconsistency there would be no way he wouldnt be found innocent except the prosecutor filed a motion to deny goose the right to make any mention of my clients name at the trial d on the grounds that we couldnt tie my crime to the crime judge turns my attorney what evidence do you have that mark runs times of this as well he was in the county he could have done it and the judge goes is that all you have because he didnt 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 thats it and so. We couldnt tie my client to the crime that was the framework for my trial it is an absolute joke the resources prosecutors have versus Defense Attorneys just im 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 its 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 were seeing in america you have to buy your rights youre more likely to walk free if youre rich and guilty and you are if youre poor and the evidence is detected months theyre telling is lies Robert Hughes telling his lies. And no alternate suspects. And so im screwed. Theyre charging me with 1st degree murder which carries 26 years to life and stay frozen thats longer than ive 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 a guilty plea in exchange for you through any sentence and talk about that as a guilty plea which you know 9 its a guilty plea and he said i hear you and close friend of my of the family my fathers best friend comes to the Juvenile Hall and says you have to you have to accept this plea is a nothing except anything and in doing you know he says look any pounds of hand down on the on the bench that were sitting on. He was they are going to convict you of 1st degree murder unless you plead guilty. Hes practically crying as a minor. He was looking to do whatever you have to do to get home. Yes there is a saying. I think theyre on the cheap 1st and then we went through all the countries dont let the idea is that right lets go through this company he said if we give them everything looked into fast. In this country. This is what we dont understand how we are poor in such a country. 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In france runs into a 2nd weekend over a bill that could stop the public from filming the police but the government insists it wasnt crackdown also its come here on the weekly. Lets go inside and talk to the 1st full interiors of worlds furrows and he called a mass vaccination rush hour