advocates were adamant that s what happened to robert davis. yet still he languished in jail, day after day. then, newfound hope, a new governor was taking office. would he consider the case? or was the young man so many believed innocent destined to spend another decade in jail? here s keith morrison with the conclusion of the interrogation. i ve never been emotional in a presentation as i feel in this case, because i ve grown very close with robert. for years, steve rosenfield made his case for robert davis to legal conferences, to anybody who would listen. robert remained right where he was, in prison. during those same years we tried repeatedly to contact and interview randy snead, the officer who took robert s confession. the closest we got was the current chief of police of albemarle county, colonel steve sellers. he wasn t in office when steve
albemarle county, colonel steve sellers. he wasn t in office when steve was a detective, but you ve talked to him, what s your sense of how he feels about it? i think he acted in the best interests. i think there wasn t a bit of malice in his actions. i think he had a very strong relationship with robert davis. but this was interesting. chief sellers did not support snead s interrogation. not at all. i will say this. i believe that the confession is an unreliable confession. what s more, the chief updated police methods when he took over to help prevent the kind of interrogation that ended up in robert s confession. i can t tell your mom that i can save you from the ultimate. as you look at it, what are things that would not be done? using terms like the ultimate punishment. length of the interview. those kinds of things would be clearly not done today. cold comfort for robert davis, who by 2014, had been in prison going on 11 years.
what happened to robert davis. yet still, he languished in jail day after day. then newfound hope. a new governor was taking office. would he consider the case or was the young man somebody believed innocent destined to spend another decade in jail? here s keith morrison with the conclusion of the interrogation. i ve never been emotional in a presentation as i feel in this case because i ve grown very close with robert. for years, steve rosenfield made his case for legal conferences to anybody who would listen and robert remained right where he was in prison. during those same years, we tried repeatedly to contact and interview randy snead, the officer who took robert s confession but close we got was the current chief of police, colonel steve sellers. he wasn t in office when steve was a detective. you ve talked to him. what s your sense of how he feels?
supercommittee that they are using now, for complicated reasons it it would now be worth $950 million in tax increases. so even in the kind of world of the bowles plan and much less simpson/bowles plan, this isn t quite right there. ryan, do they think that one democrat in a world who is not in office anywhere and theoretically compromising with him even though he says, hey, that s not a workable deal, do they actually think that s a presentable step towards the president? clearly they do. you know, democrats have been kind of guilty of the same thing in the past but this is a little extra ridiculous because erskine bowles is not somebody that s just been out of operativeness for a long time. he wasn t in office. he was inoperative, but he also works for morgan stanley right now. it s not like this is some type of a new deal that says, look, here s the deal that we ve
erskine bowles offered to the super committee that they are using now, for complicated reasons it it would now be worth $950 million in tax increases. so even in the kind of world of the bowles plan and muchless simpson/bowles plan, this isn t quite right there. ryan, do they think that one democrat in a world who is not in office anywhere and theoretically compromising with him even though he says, hey, that s not a workable deal, do they actually think that s a presentable step towards the president? clearly they do. you know, democrats have been kind of guilty of the same thing in the past but this is a little extra ridiculous because erskine bowles is not somebody that s just been out of operativeness for a long time. he wasn t in office. he was inoperative, but he also works for morgan stanley right now. it s not like this is some type of a new deal that says, look,