after the sixth hour of interrogation, there s a turning point. lowery breaks down and confesses. he says he broke down the front door of the house and found the woman sleeping. he says he covered the woman s face, hit her in the head with the butt of a knife, and raped her. and that s when they stopped the interrogation and they actually arrested me for rape, aggravated burglary, and aggravated assault. the prosecutor pat caffey, kansas versus lowery, seems like an open-and-shut case. he never denied that he made the confession. there wasn t a situation where he said, no, i didn t really confess. this was he never said that. i thought it was a solid confession and that he was guilty. but almost immediately, eddie lowery hires an attorney and recants the confession. he really didn t realize at that point the consequences of
aggravated assault. the prosecutor pat caffey, kansas versus lowery, seems like an open-and-shut case. he never denied that he made the confession. there wasn t a situation where he said, no, i didn t really confess. this was he never said that. i thought it was a solid confession and that he was guilty. but almost immediately, eddie lowery hires an attorney and recants the confession. he really didn t realize at that point the consequences of admitting to a crime that he didn t commit. i know that might sound really strange to people and particularly a jury. my opinion is that a jury has a real obstacle to overcome when a person admits to a crime and then later recants and said, no, i didn t, didn t do that. the trial begins on november 19th, 1981. though lowery s confession is
them i had nothing to do with this, i m innocent. went through my whole story again about what happened that night. it goes on like that for several hours. pointed questions and accusations followed by denials. after the sixth hour of interrogation, there s a turning point. lowery breaks down and confesses. he says he broke down the front door of the house and found the woman sleeping. he says he covered the woman s face, hit her in the head with the butt of a knife, and raped her. and that s when they stopped the interrogation and they actually arrested me for rape, aggravated burglary, and aggravated assault. the prosecutor pat caffey, kansas versus lowery, seems like an open-and-shut case. he never denied that he made the confession. there wasn t a situation where he said, no, i didn t really confess. this was he never said that.
the butt of a knife, and raped her. and that s when they stopped the interrogation and they actually arrested me for rape, aggravated burglary and aggravated assault. the prosecutor pat caffey, kansas versus lowery seems like an open-and-shut case. he never denied that he made the confession. there wasn t a situation where he said, no, i didn t really confess. this was he never said that. i thought it was a solid confession and that he was guilty. but almost immediately, eddie lowery hires an attorney and recants the confession. he really didn t realize at that point the consequences of admitting to a crime that he didn t commit. i know that might sound really strange to people and particularly a jury. my opinion is that a jury has a real obstacle to overcome when a person admits to a crime and then later recants and said, no, i didn t do that. the trial begins on november
went through my whole story again about what happened that night. it goes on like that for several hours. pointed questions and accusations followed by denials. after the sixth hour of interrogation there s a turning point. lowery breaks down and confesses. he says he broke down the front door of the house and found the woman sleeping. he says he covered the woman s face, hit her in the head with the butt of a knife and raped her. and that s when they stopped the interrogation and they actually arrested me for rape, aggravated burglary and aggravated assault. the prosecutor pat caffey, kansas versus lowery seems like an open and shut case. he never denied that he made the confession. there wasn t a situation where he said, no, i didn t really confess. this was he never said that. i thought it was a solid confession and that he was