Need symbols of unity and one of. The iran threat. A grandmother doing a life for murder was released from prison yesterday after 17 years when i judge said she did not do it susan mellon recently filed a lawsuit against the detective who arrested her for hiding evidence that detectives the same one who arrested reggie. We know as a society we see the bad guy in the good guy well thats cops and robbers but when the cop becomes the robber the game is over the game is over s. Corruption it was a horrific twist of fate that led to reggies release. Was more fortunate his fathers death led to an unexpected turn providence was his big thing in any have you know great Life Insurance some 184000 that my dad left and i was able to parlay that up to about 236. 00 stock market and then it was just 100 percent of my time dedicated to my case and that enabled this to hire a private investigator we have essentially a growing war chest of evidence that i have committed the crime or at least that all the evidence that was presented was it was false evidence i had received a complaint from i flew up to. The state prison where there was i spoke to him when somebody is accused of murder and youre arrested for murder its tape recorded everything as tape recorder i couldnt find his tape d it had been. Taken out of evidence by detective monsoon and it was never put back into evidence. Detective months through it so the footprints outside the house matched the footprints on the inside. Lieutenant gavin found the footprints were actually looked at by a scientist or any qualified expert so he took matters into his own d so i contacted our people Scientific Investigative Division so he takes health this big magnifying glass looks at it looks at the other one day goes these 2 dont match see this is a great embarrassment for any Large Organization that youve convicted somebody for murder and then 51020 years later its true it turns out that the person is actually aniston. And this is what my lieutenant said that is not in that prison do you understand me sergeant gap and they will do everything they can to stop you per cent you from Going Forward with the information you have upon a deal in the comprehensive work of the private investigator yeah my p. T. Internal Affairs Department claimed his complaints were unfounded and that no misconduct had occurred you cant have an internal investigation were we all investigate our sales. This guy good job to give the words or anything like that just to give the system that has no checks and balances you who is taking yall i believe in internal affairs should be separate from the Police Department there is no way that a Police Department can investigate themselves currently there are no independent organizations whose job it is to investigate Police Misconduct and theres no oversight of prosecutors either. Prosecutorial misconduct dizzee major factor of Wrongful Convictions just a Single Thread that runs through almost all of the Wrongful Conviction cases Jeff Deskovic as a masters in criminal justice specializing in Wrongful Convictions is also a survivor of prosecutorial misconduct i spent 16 years in prison wrongfully convicted at 17. Emerged at 32 jeff eventually won a lawsuit against Putnam County new york conviction which enabled him to start his own foundation. And executor. Dr the jeff adjusted it around issues but just as theres no deterrent theres no oversight is no punishment for prosecutors so they can break the law they dont face criminal penalties even when they engage in withholding evidence of innocence threatening witnesses coercing witnesses no matter how serious the misconduct as if the prosecutor commits that after an arrest has been made they have whats called prosecutorial immunity theyre above the law the prosecutors to really uphold whats become just words which is you know theyre there to do justice theyre there to do the right thing it becomes more like were there to when expressing the prosecutors offices actually keep statistics on conviction rates well you should be credited that you looked at a case where the police thought they had a good case but a good prosecutor looked and said you know what theres some mistakes made here we should drop the charges in this case we should incentivize that but instead we actually incentivize the opposite of getting convictions and getting conviction rates all of a sudden justice gets lost in that process and whether this guy committed the crime or not gets lost in that process because its all about winning my case immunity. I mean in the real world you know you suppose we held accountable for your wrongdoings so therefore if you are a person of authority already the you have to be held at a higher standard then just so lately i think we actually to step back and kind of rethink the whole system in the way were approaching it because its become this game and peoples lives are lost as a result of it. If you ever do find yourself wrongfully convicted odds are you never get now the 1st thing you need to do is in preservation letters to the Police Department labs and the courts requesting that you want all your evidence say otherwise they may destroy it. Within 30 days try to find me in the sense projects that will take you case. Take years. For me or. The Innocence Project estimates conservatively there could easily be 40000 to over 100000 americans only wrongfully convicted the majority of which are people of color. This is a private investigator never gave up on his case yet a very. Private investigator who made a complaint to the land on the desk of an internal Affairs Investigator who. Looked at bruces claims in a very serious minded fashion. Its the people like the text of the others out there that have made our job very difficult to do day after day because we lose the confidence of the public and with the confidence of the courts we have to have police chief structures of Public Service that are willing to do the right thing and terminate employees who are doing the wrong thing if you want to say youre the good guy but youre ostracized by everybody that you believe then its a very difficult situation because i have to continue to work for the same department that the. I dont look at myself as a hero i look at myself as a sort of as a survivor because the system attacked me system one after me and the system did everything they could to keep her in jail and everything to keep me quiet its been a lot of therapy my wife and i met in 3rd grade we were Elementary Junior High High School sweethearts we lived on the same street and its a been its been a very difficult difficult road she is 3rd generation l. A. P. D. And. So the survival is day by day and always looking over your shoulder whether youre doing the right thing or not youre constantly looking over your shoulder and every time i get called into the captains office i wonder what did i do now and ive never had that feeling before i just kept on telling myself they are not going to defeat me theyre not going to defeat me its just when you come across Something Like this what are you going to do and thats the difficult thing if i had not given the information that i did to the l. A. Times bruce lester would still be in prison. A bloody footprint that was attributed to bruce at his trial had recently been reanalyzed and shown to not been made from bruce issue so they got his interest in the case and we started talking to those that private investigator began the 7 month investigation and at the conclusion of that they filed an article called a case of doubt that eventually won them an award when the times and i want up sitting between 2005 when the 1st article came out and 2009 in prison for solid years. A widely recognized innocent man we knew back in 20032004 that we had probably a person that was in prison for a crime he did not commit and it took 5 years for the courts to work through the entire system there were a lot of delays because of the conduct of my own Police Department and the conduct of the California Attorney general. Reggie kohl spent 16 years in prison for a crime he didnt commit 10 of those years were spent in solitary confinement and he had to kill another man to get a trial its a miracle reggie got out of all. Thames is a miracle story as well in late 2012 after 26 years he made parole. I signed some papers. As for the profs or he said ok see you later. Didnt ask me how i was getting home didnt ask me if i had a home when i realize these people honestly dont give. To survive do you know a lot harder than it sounds to me and to bear with posttraumatic stress disorder. Around noya and require immediate treatment you are in the food new clothes youre going to need money for transportation to and from your parole officer meeting if you miss a beating you couldnt buy new so that gives you are going to be the judge but theres a lot of discrimination out there for employment in speak you know which you corn indeed. 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So i had to learn how to forgive and then to go and i had to learn how to forgive him and then they go because he was also after i got to see his record this guy had a rap sheet you know from here from one side rolled to the other you know and i could see you know he needed to same help did i need we are generally magine that there is such thing as for example a murderer and then they were in the murder in the public imagination and then most of our minds whether we thought about it or not initially is someone who likes to murder and he would murder given the opportunity thats what you think of a case and make thats what murders do they go around murdering mate and thats why you dont let them out of prison out of prison are going to murder again. The reality is that murder is almost always. Incredibly. Through some of the. Situations and conditions some of which couldnt even really begin. Suddenly. Doesnt have such a natural place anymore. Or. 20 years. Theres no Human Element. To. The criminal justice system. There is no Human Element theyre not there to help you theyre not there to help society they can say they you that thats what a set up for all they want thats not what its there for. Not in california and not in a lot of places its a system set up to punish people and they take a bad situation and they usually make it much worse. You know what the official success rate of state prison is nearly 80 percent of all inmates. Within 5 years thats success rate of 20 percent imagine if we have those requirements of airplanes wow you know 10 airplanes falling out of the sky its a little bit crazy making and that is department of justice the federal Government Research dr Michael Coyle attended Harvard University has a ph d. In just the studies and as a professor of criminal justice at California State University dr coyle says that prison not only increases criminal behavior and has a deleterious effect on society as a whole what happens to a family when the wage earner is removed from society and thrown into prison for 10 years. What happens to those power of am proud to one of their chances of success in life start to go down what will how does that impact the Community Loss of resources in our community more demands in the community now to help to help this family maybe the other parent maybe the children its just so clearly a failure by every measure that you look at it and i think we just need to rethink the whole thing and not just keep trying to put lipstick on this pig because thats what i think it is difficult for people to imagine a World Without prisons now weve become so accustomed to the idea of prisons that its hard for people to imagine well what do you do with people if you dont put them in trim. And when when theyve done wrong there are other alternatives just ask he said the degree of civilization in a society could be judged by entering its prisons hebrews 133 remember those who are in chains as if you were in jesus with. We dont we put everybody at risk. My husband dan was a Police Officer and he was killed in a line of duty and my goal at the trial was to get the man who killed my husband convicted of 1st degree murder and be given the Death Penalty and thats what i got thats what happened i thought ok here it is i got justice im going to be free from this and it didnt happen and it was just a lie it didnt change anything again less sheryls a stainless for brokering the truce between the crips and the bloods in 1902 then in 2004 experienced an unimaginable tragedy my oldest son was murdered. From winter break college. And i was shot to death at a party. You know so my daughter called me was like no dad you didnt go the wrong sesame street in the projects and stuff and he took a mug on a mission for trail so i jumped him our car and i drove over there to do projects and i jumped off the car and i are sitting. I said man weve played this high for an arduous 4 tunes game long enough im like you know its left us all blind into focus you know and i might win without anybody here to provide direction and guidance for the cues from the young folks and the parents and the loved ones that are left behind like im like lets listen to Something Different theres an opportunity here for us to take the wisdom that we know works what we would do for our own kids or own kids were in trouble into a very by these kids. We have to demand a once and for all and to police scene and. Business for profit. At least half of the people in there are in there for crimes of addiction or economic desperation or Mental Health instead of just throwing everybody that weve decided we cant help and use the money for restoring justice programs. And social services. There has to be citizen oversight and accountability for all our public servants. We have access to all of it any interest. Equal access to opportunity in this country. Matter of. Logical. Smart. Love for. Yourself. Good monday morning to you how a poignant man finally free after serving 16 years for a crime he didnt commit i dont think it was real and so on so much are these invisible. Better. Trying to describe it. Was an unbelievable feeling there was just an emotional roller coaster that you know i mean i cried watching out it was just the magnitude of all these years and my now here it is and then. A moment later i would be too bewildered to cry and i would just be. That that whole day was really scary for a lot of people but i think that it would be like yeah. I was terrified there were well wishers well wishers there of officers of the new that. I think they knew the truth and certainly knew the character you know my character and then i was in the parking lot. The air smell