a stake in the case was closed to nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is a problem with all of this is that it. can be used to get innocent people and i don t just mean vulnerable innocent people i mean people who are sitting around in this world to confess to crimes they didn t commit. since in the. system. anytime you do an exoneration case when there s been a false confession it s like trying to write a try so. everybody s already against you the person s been convicted by a jury the judge thinks he s guilty the jury thinks he s. now you have to convince everybody that they re wrong. so. deeply. is the case over in a village who has been in prison for 20 years renee lynch. was a case we took about 2 and a half now maybe 3 years ago now and she was accused and convicted of killing her landlord in buffalo new york in 1905. and it s also obvious if confession case the police are going crazy and they can t solve an 18 months go by and r
i was a public defender in manhattan here in new york city for about 3 years and we saw a lot of police misconduct you know we were doing arraignments up until 1 am in the morning and you see people beat up or you know people whose cases get dismissed who get no compensation so my husband and i left the legal aid society with the hopes of doing civil rights work. my name so castle i m a distinguished professor of psychology at john jay college of criminal justice once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is a problem with all of this is that the or tactics that can be used to get innocent people and i don t just mean vulnerable innocent people i mean people who are sitting around in this room to confess to crimes they didn t commit. 2 anytime you do an exoneration case where there s been a false confession it s like trying to write a trice. everybody s already against you the person s b
you re not going home tonight i can guarantee they. won t come back to wrongful conviction with you something today we re going to be doing a deep dive into an issue that is fascinating incidents. which is the phenomenon of false confessions and my guest today is going to be jane fisher are you also currently working on more cases involving false confessions and each is fascinating its own way so jane while some confession happened to me and jane is an attorney who is an expert on false confessions and so jane how did you get into this work i was a public defender in manhattan here in new york city for about 3 years and we saw a lot of police misconduct you know we were doing arraignments up until 1 am in the morning and you see people beat up or you know people whose cases get dismissed who get no compensation so my husband and i left the legal aid society with the hopes of doing civil rights work. my name so castle i m a distinguished professor of psychology at john jay col
a way who has been in prison for 20 years renee lynch. was a case we took about 2 and a half now maybe 3 years ago now and she was accused and convicted of killing her landlord in buffalo new york in 1995. and it s also obvious if confession cases the police are going crazy and they can t solve it 18 months go by and renee s connection to the victim was that it was her landlord and so they are start looking into run a who at the time was heavily addicted to drugs crack cocaine and because she gets arrested for something else and they start interrogating her and she confesses to killing her landlord with this guy kareem so she says kareem and i went to. my landlord s house we were going to rob her the robbery goes bad and karim stabs her so if she s a good century can make it a felony murder being present during the commission of a crime and somebody gets killed we started sort of doing you know just regular google searches on the players names the detectives and everything i
to be doing a deep dive into it with an issue that is fascinating exhibits to our founding which is the phenomenon of false confessions and my guest today is going to be jane fisher already also currently working on 4 cases involving false confessions and each is fascinating its own way so jane while some confession and jane is an attorney who is an expert on false confessions jane how did you get into this work i was a public defender in manhattan here in new york city for about 3 years and we saw a lot of police misconduct you know we were doing arraignments up until 1 am in the morning and you see people beat up or you know people whose cases get dismissed who get no compensation so my husband and i left the legal aid society with the hopes of doing civil rights work. my name is old castle i m a distinguished professor of psychology at john jay college of criminal justice once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between