That these 7 members distinguished members have accepted this serious responsibility again to protect and defend for the people defending our democracy. Russias Prime Minister has stepped down in a move seen as paving the way for president Vladimir Putin to hold on to power when his term ends in 2024 Dmitri Medvedev says his resignation will allow for putin to introduce sweeping changes to the constitution during his state of the nation address putin proposed an increase in parliaments power as well as an enhanced role for the state council donahoe reports it was dramatic and entirely unexpected except that just hours before the resignation of russias Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev and his entire government the president Vladimir Putin had called for government change. But i would list that as hes given. We as the government of the Russian Federation should provide the president of our country with the opportunity to make all necessary changes to the political system. In the annual live televised state of the nation address putin said that the constitution should be amended to allow parliament to choose candidates for Prime Minister and the cabinet a power now enjoyed soley by the president and the president he said should in future serve a total maximum of 2 terms putin himself is currently serving his 4th the proposed changes would substantially limit the power of whoever succeeds putin as president after he steps down in 2024 as hes constitutionally bound to do. Supporters describe the movers deepening democracy empowering elected members of Parliament Critics however suggest it offers a concrete clue to russias hottest political question what happens after putin the answer some believe is more. The main result of putins address tweeted kremlin critic Alexis Novell me what kind of idiots and or crooks or all those who said that putin would leave in 2024 the only goal of putin and his regime is remaining leader for life taking ownership of an entire country and appropriating wealth to himself and his friends the russian president seeks to. Continue to exert control or the russian political sphere even after he leaves the official office of the president so theres more of is intended to change the. Structure of their action government and sasha way. To possibly move to a different position from which he will be able to do so. But the mere putin has said nothing of his intentions post presidency but he could be planning a repeat of these 2008 move to become Prime Minister or take on another senior role a weakened presidency might pave the way for russias longest serving leader since stalin to take power with him when he goes to own a home aljazeera irans president has warned that european soldiers in the middle east may be in danger a son rouhani made the comments during a televised Cabinet Meeting just a day after britain france and germany a dispute mechanism over iran breaking its end of the nuclear deal ronnie also reiterated his call for all foreign troops to leave the middle east saying american soldiers are not safe in the region. As the top stories do stay with us witness is next looking at the floors of the u. S. Justice system or news for you after that by fire. Oh but you were a Police Headquarters with a to homo side detective caught you know button her theres your criminy into you leave that up i just stand here watcher crier 5 minutes you were not going home tonight i can guarantee there welcome back to Wrongful Conviction when jason club today were going to be doing it deep dive and to move any issue that use and as fascinating is it is did are falling with which is the phenomenon of false confessions and my guest today is going to be jane fish or by realises and whos currently working on for cases involving false confessions and each whose fastening its own ways had jame while some think you for convection happy to me here and jane is an attorney who is an expert on false confessions and so jane how did you get in through 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 good you know we were doing arraignments up until 1 am in the morning in you see people beat up burner you know people who has cases get dismissed who get no compensation so my husband and i left the Legal Aid Society with the hopes of doing civil rights worked my name sold castle im a distinguished professor of psychology of John Jay College of criminal justice once a false confession is taken the cases closed the nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isnt the problem with all of this is that there are 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 world to confess to crimes they didnt commit. Any time you do an exoneration case where theres been a false confession its like trying to write a tries to. 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 a case that youre deeply invested in 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 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 renees connection to 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. 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 karim and i went to my landlords house we were going to rob her the robbery goes bad and karim steps or so its us 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 women behind bars comes up and theyve done an episode on bernies case where they got in the in the prison and interviewed her and then interviewed this joseph court was the cop on the case just the way her body slumped when she decided to go you just saw it was time to tell the truth. I believe her confession is kind of nonsense theres inconsistency between the physical evidence and what she says and during the show he says well i mean we knew that Corinne Walker was in florida at the time of our crime my partner looked into it and karim was in florida at the time of our crime like well. I guess they knew Kareem Walker was in florida at the time the crime then renes confession cant possibly be true because shes confessing to going to rob the landlord with kareem at the defense been able to put that on her confession would have made no sense but the defense was never to. Our goal is of course to get renee out of prison but it can take a really long time sometimes many years one of the 1st things we do in cases like this is to comb through the confession and find all that in consistencies to clearly show that the confession is false. And theres a cream walker drove me to 90 longmeadow and i am her. And was i was going to go into the front door and cream was going to come up the back door. He was going to tie her up with a piece of white extension cord that he brought with him at that time kareem hit louise in the side of the face and louise fell to the floor in kind of one out if that happened he would be standing punching her here right when cream head here in the face he knocked the wig off woolies head a little landed on the floor in the kitchen but thats really the kitchen. He tried to tie louise up with the plastic already had then cream comes from behind louise he stabbed her at least twice however we know its 8 times. So the only thing she gets right is that the witness knocked off that theres a plastic cord involved in this case is correct and the phone cord is where the extra d. N. A. Is ringback ringback. How i missed in the its jean fisher byron alston renee lynchs attorney i have a call with her this morning. Ok thinks. Oh. Oh. Oh oh. Oh oh. 00000000 why are quite right. I. I know its hard. Rene went to trial she testified but very incoherently she was high during the trial. You know it was she was not a good witness for herself she recanted right away afterwards and her confession is that is it was coerced when i talked to him about this theyre like well this i would never prosecute thats what people say ive been talking about this for 30 years and thats the 1st thing everybody says i get it but it wouldnt happen to me. Its not one time the person that gives a false confession we are all fall into the circumstance of interrogation we are all there have been some train detectives ive spoken to who say i can get anybody to confess to him many of them will boast that they have a 95 percent confession right but its conceivable that a lesser of a lesser near perfect at identifying the perpetrator that is every suspect you identify is the perpetrator right if youve got a confession rate at that level youre producing a whole lot of false confessions we were in a lynch when i talked to her about it she explained to me i was so shocked that they convicted me she said because there was no evidence of a confession so powerful it can stand alone so heres the jury on the one hand theyve got the confessions of the woman and theyve got delay the confessions trump the d. N. A. Changes everything it sometimes ive likened the final product of a confession to a hollywood production it is scripted by the Police Theory of the case it is rehearsed and then lights action camera ready to go. And thats what the jury sees they dont see the whole production they just see the final i dont see how. A judge or jury to look past a forced confession is that ocean approach to. The internet is case were trying to get permission to test all the old evidence from d. N. A. But to do that we have to collect as much information about her innocence as we possibly can. Go back and interview old witnesses collect documents go back to the crime scene. I keep coming back to this thing that the cops knew he was in florida and kept going with the story that they did together how can they be permitted to go forward with assyria of a case that they know is not true they made the trial basically matcher. It just makes me so jaded and really disgusted with the District Attorneys Office is that i feel like you know the you know theyre supposed to be at the top of the chain right there its supposed to be the ones making sure the cops made mistakes or people below the cops made mistakes then theyre the ones who are responsible for fixing it why not do d. N. A. Testing were not infallible we can all make mistakes i mean renees going to be in prison for the rest of her life why not just check in renes case its especially frustrating because i mean they certainly believe that this was done not the stabbing was not done by her right so there is a set i mean theyre basically admitting that they have a cold case and theres a murder out there and they still dont want to do it. We have a number of documented cases in which the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior. Which is. A whole nother level of insanity and some of them believe it. For a long time afterwards right. Here. In the melted thompson case we had he was a danish inturn who came. To danish he was a College Student studying to become a teacher and he came interned at i. P. S. Which is really you know like a 20000. 00 a year preschool up by the un and it was a code teacher who accuses meltzer of molesting all the kids in the class and hes on the cover of the daily news they take his focus his facebook profile pictures him with his niece on his shoulders so they put that on the cover of the daily news and write sex monster and they go arrest him in the morning and bring him into the station and they have a female cop interrogate him she tells him well you know we have video of you molesting these kids which they had videos but hes not molesting anybody so they had this woman who accused him had taken videos of him in the classroom interacting normally with children and so either the cops hadnt watched it or they had watched it and were blatantly lying to him but there was no video of him molesting kids but he hears that right and he thinks holy crap well if im on video i must have done it right they let him continue to believe this lie that hes caught red handed on tape molesting these kids and i think that that you know he started you could tell through the hole when they finally are recording him hes doubting himself you know hes hes wondering did i do this. By. Humans. Its Rachel Ferrari you know and i mean assistant District Attorney in New York County mr thompson. Can you tell me why youre here today yes. Im here because im in the court of. All my colleagues and. For inappropriate. Behavior with kids ok so why dont you tell me. Probably anything how this started what happened you know what. You know well its a feel and remember this and to go around a few moments about. And then. Present to me of a. Mishap was i was. Present in the you know so. I had taken. Its hands during play time and playing in her own mind. Consider a measure. You know for sure if for them that your question or your. So what when you say gave you pleasure at one time that was central. Yeah it would have to be. I dont know you know. My memory i mean its like theres no divided and if you read out theres demand and thats your handwriting and it is just putting it over briefly because it looks like its been changed in any way. And thats your signature at the bottom because if you read this out here today youre going to show it to camera. I dont even think people in the u. S. Really get that the police are allowed to lie to you i think most people would think that if i am speaking to a Police Officer hes time to the truth but now to toms i mean in denmark its illegal for the police to lie to you so he really i think was was you know really says extra susceptible to Something Like that it took us filing the civil rights to to even get access to these tapes the District Attorney wouldnt give it to us when the criminal case was pending we asked the court we moved for a court order to get at the judges wouldnt give it to us but they sat on these tapes for 8 months he had this case hanging over his head and they knew that there was nothing in the tapes right and because was that was the only evidence there was yes luckily mel to never got convicted right we were able to stop it before that happened but it took i mean it almost killed him. Its very serious allegations of Sexual Abuse Involving very Young Children were brought to the attention you know my thoughts are with us tom. If you tell everything to dismiss this case after all and how things stand there in our next guest we have just found out this. Is opposed by mr dinh oh man its he still in fact is awful for what dansko was it appointed him and its function to want to install a c. P. A. So he put in a treaty between the elite sport from sin no one say its going to help put the 2 end of the good in system and sit for it to pass assess the student forward to put in a new e. F. Which is here in new york i cant for. The forefront see treating its 3 stories up. In most false confession cases there falsely confessing to an actual crime that they didnt commit in this case he was confessing to something that never even happened. As you said so poignantly i mean his life was ruined and he didnt even get convicted. You know the central park jogger case was my 1st interaction with false confessions are firm represented corey wise on his civil rights case im not thats a hell of a way to start i mean youre diving right in at the deep end there yeah you know the circumstances at play in that case were huge amount of pressure on the police and the authorities to make arrests and make them stick 5 teenagers but they didnt need infamous central park jogger case in 989 the rape and beating of a female jogger made headlines nationwide the teenagers are confessed but later claimed that their confessions have been covered. When the actual perpetrator stepped forward the 5 men were finally is on the road for the past time for. 7 years in prison and one of them corey was 30. 1 the most notorious crimes in the history of new york city it was a crime in which a woman who was a wealthy Upper East Side investment banker was out jogging at dusk and was dragged into the woods in central park and almost beaten to death and it was front page news every day everywhere and they theyre out to get arrested and they got him. When you get to the false confession in that case it was a classic you know. Mismatch they were totally overmatched underrepresented if represented at all i dont know if you could pick or even have anyone in the room without it because you are 16 so he was considered an adult sadly and so his mom was not allowed in there and they you know had given them lawyers they all waived their their miranda rights. This is very very serious this may be very we dont know if this woman is there. I want to know exactly where you are and exactly what and exactly what you said. After seeing those pictures im sure that you can see how important this point is to what. It is hard for people to understand how this can happen how they could produce a confession to something they didnt do and it really is a complicated set of stories there is no one reason. You know corey was confessed to get out of this bad situation he was under intense pressure for many many hours right