Any time you do an exoneration case when theres been a false confession. Its like trying to write a try. So everybodys already against you. The persons been convicted by a jury. The judge thinks hes guilty. The jury thinks hes guilty. Now you have to convince everybody that theyre wrong. So ok, so youre deeply invested in is a case of an alien ship who has been in prison for 20 years. Renee lynch was a case where he took about 2 and a half, you know, maybe 3 years ago now. And she was accused and convicted of killing her landlord in buffalo, new york in 1900. And its also obviously a false confession case. The police are going crazy and they cant solve it 18 months go by. And bernies connection to the victim was that it was her landlord. And so they are start looking into renee, 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
Hopes of doing civil rights work. My names distinguished professor of psychology at John Jay College of criminal justice. Once a false confession is taken, the case is closed, nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is a problem with all of this is that your tactics that can be used to get innocent people and i dont just mean vulnerable, innocent people, i mean people who are sitting around in this room to confess to crimes. They didnt commit last century since you anytime you do an exoneration came, theres been a confession. Its like trying to write a trice. Everybodys already against you. The persons been convicted by a jury. The judge thinks hes guilty. The jury thinks hes guilty. Now you have to convince everybody that theyre wrong. So your is a case over in 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,