Some psychiatrys to tell us. The only question. It is a fact what does the Election Results to date . Tell us about the state of american politics. There was no blue wave. Instead, there was a red ripple instead of calls for reconciliation. There are those looking to punish trump supporters. One step forward 2 steps back bad. You were a police werent going to haul so i think youre talking about a murder case. Youre really into you leave that up. I just sat here watching 5 minutes. Youre not going home tonight. I can guarantee they wont come back to wrongful conviction. With your recent today, were going to be doing a deep dive into an issue that is fascinating exhibits to our founding, which is the phenomenon of false confessions. And i guess today is going to change. Fisher already also was currently working on more 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. And so
2 any time you do an exoneration case where theres been a false confession, its like trying to write a try, so everybodys already against you. The persons been convicted by a jury charge things hes guilty. The jury thinks hes guilty. Now you have to convince everybody that theyre wrong. So ok, so youre deeply rested and is a case of an alien ship 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 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 renees 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 karim. So she says, kareem, a
You leave that up. I just sat here watching 5 minutes. Youre not going home tonight. I can guarantee they wont come back to Wrongful Conviction with you some today were going to be doing a deep dive into an issue. You know, is fascinating exhibits to our founding, 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 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 is old cast
And answer portion, in the interest of video and audio reporting, if you could just come to our microphone by the white pillar so we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion, and lastly, once everything is done if you could please fold up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight im pleased to introduce jared cohen, to politics and prose the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet inc. As well as an adjuncrt senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. He is the New York Times best selling author with eric schmidt of the new digital age and has written the children of jihad. One of the great lessons of american politics that ive learned is the tale of two brothers. One went off to sea and one became Vice President. Neither was heard from ever again. However in rare cases, the Vice President is not relegated to obscurity. Namely when the president the previous president dies. And his newest, best New Y
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 its also obviously a false confession cases. The police are going crazy and they cant solve it 18 months go by. And renees 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 karim. So she says, kareem, and i went to my landlords house, we were going to rob her. The robbery goes bad, and karim stabs her. So its, shes 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 in this t. V. Show and women behind bars