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,
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 person has been convicted by a jury thinks hes guilty. The jury thinks hes guilty. Now you have to convince everybody that theyre wrong. So ok, so youre deeply grass. There is a case of an alien 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 leg and lauren in buffalo, new york in 1900. And its also obviously a false confession cases. The police are going crazy and if 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 karim. So she says kareem,
Because youre really into it, you leave that up. I just stand there watching. 5 minutes. Youre not going home. I can guarantee they wont come back to wrongful conviction. What you say 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 my guest today is going to be jane fisher already also was currently working on 4 cases involving false confessions and each is fascinating its own way. So jane, while some full confession happened to me here, 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
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 it 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. And women behind bars comes up and theyve done an episode case where they got in the, in the prison and interviewed her. And then interviewed this choice of law court was the cop on the case. The way her body were trying to go in 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 kn