To the United States of america. This country is a large as prison population in the world you have more people in prisons. And we have colleges and universities one 3rd of all incarcerated females globally. Are locked up here in the United States put that in perspective imagine all of los angeles and all of new york combined arrested every year. On. The new years eve a man if. Not repeat the little stuff. And. When its not. As an american citizen you dont have to be a murderer or a rapist or a thief to be arrested. If you call the police in an emergency and find yourself arrested just because the officer doesnt like you. My strongest memory my mom is she was very into teaching sharing. Loved each other how to put my own life on the line to try to just say my moms had i known anything like this was going to happen. And it was a day just like any other day. I went over to my parents house normally when i went over my mom went right on the on the front porch to greet me. She didnt come to the door i was able to see her on the floor and she had been stabbed him beaten and left for dead. Nose freaking out a part of our car at. Our r r r r r you know i was hysterical and i was yelling and screaming at the paramedics to hurry up and get her to the hospital so the doctors could do something to save her life. And the police choke hold of me and him comfort me and put me in the car for my own safety a sense of what you call the authorities when something goes wrong and you call for help and you put your full face on them i was. When the police i want to go to the hospital to be with my mom screaming crying you know. And he said no we have to go to guys Police Department the detective interrogated because for 2 hours by the time he was done interrogating me. So what would you do tell the cops whatever they want to know demand they release you scream maybe even fight. I. There are a number of citizen Watchdog Group observe and Record Police misconduct their advice is to always be polite never engage with a negative rated or confrontational officer postell both just respect it. And not the part that you understand me when im playing if you. Ask my being detained or in my free to go as she sees unusual behavior is over im assuming im going to take my in my being detained or not go sir thank you if youre not being detained leave them are being detained the police can legally lie to you so dont get into any conversation or start answering questions just ask for and its heard. Never talk to any body without an attorney there. Says melanie was 42 years old in gardena california when she was accused of her murder she didnt commit. The detective assigned to the case was relying on the testimony of one witness the whole case hinged on the word of one person june patty and everything patty said was inconsistent with every other lead every single lead put 3 gang members in the house. And no women said i was planing that i was standing stand i do not believe in dont ask me to. Do you believe i do not believe when i left my daughter that i just remember telling her that dont worry baby ill be back for dinner systems daughter jessica she said to me that she was going to be home for dinner and she was home 17 years later. Not seen my children and that was very hard on me. For all those years im still broken my heart still broken from a rethink i went through. And you know its so scary. It was the Worst Nightmare in my whole life. The bottom line is you have a right to be silent keep your mouth shut. Because those words will be used against you to survive an interrogation youre going to be ready to stay here im going to name only what i really am against and we end aggression and intimidation that are yet you know. You want to get out of there know no matter how intimidated they get just say i want to speak to a lawyer and i hope you can afford a good one i dont have a not a good attorney it was a tribe i should have 2 places los angeles i looked like the actual shooter i resembled was the correct word i served only 9 years and 8 months in prison. If you dont have an adequate attorney your entire future rests in the hands of the detective assigned to your case the rewards of bruce willis were used against him and youre dealing with a 17 year old kid and they were able to manipulate him and twist things my trees was assigned to a homicide detective who it was one of his 1st cases he hadnt even gone to Homicide School yet with the l. A. P. D. And he jumped the gun and basically decided that because i was a long haired kid who looked like he spoke on which i did and i was a person who could attack my mother he must of all of his colleagues scrutinizing him looking at him how long its going to take you to solve this one andy. And well he did it minutes did me. In 1900 reggie cole was 18 years old living in South Central l. A. With no criminal record when he was arrested for the murder of Felipe Angelus the only eyewitness was a man named john jones the owner of a brothel across the street known as johnnys house of prostitution i want this place been in operation about 17 years but 17 year the police were willing to overlook what john johns was doing and john jones would be willing to play along with whatever the cops wanted him to do 16 years later a new theory would emerge the actual shooter was more likely john jones himself firing from the rooftop of his own building but the arresting officer on the case was sure the murder was reggie call it was her 1st or 1st case and she. Needs clothes so notifier to get her her shoe size him. To be a doctor you have to go to school for many years to be a lawyer you have to go to school for the years i dont understand how somebody would just a High School Diploma or ged can have that type of power to be an officer of the law with a pistol that can take someones life literally or with the charge they put on people they dont they dont feel the need to speak up because it doesnt happen to them oh yes thats messed up you know i mean but it could never happen to me yes it could it could happen to you just like that. Every step member everybody that i encountered i was saying you know a mistake has been made i didnt do anything they going for phone calls to talk to my dad. You know from moment to moment. The reality that my mothers dead. Would just bring an icy chill. Busy. First thing the next morning i was taken up front to talk to a psychologist or a psychiatrist and in this cheery kind of a voice he says so how do you feel about being here is so more. Than i said. You know be kidding sensei l. A. P. D. Report stated that this stabbed his mother to death the doctor determined that this must be psychotic. Prison healthcare is a disgrace im a its more like a holiday show. For medical conditions inside of prisons in california been so bad for so long you talk about misdiagnosis just for ferric conditions so a District Court in 2000 and shoot said that an outside agency had to come in and take over the entire medical system in the prisons today after spending billions of dollars some california prisons still fail to meet even the most basic constitutional standards for health care and if you have a soviet Mental Illness the United States of america. Clichy want to be if you dont have the money to pay for a constant care. You and danger of fisa Law Enforcement. Here we are not. Not a good word to go to some of us just a friend a call bob polo us 16 times more likely to die when it counts with Law Enforcement and if you dont die due to more likely to lead in prison than hospital. The National Sheriffs association got together with the Treatment Advocacy Center they looked into it it turns out did the percent 50 percent of the people who are locked up have some kind of Mental Health issue and then i was medicated i was given mellaril which is like thorazine numbed my brain. And made at that point. Warning side effects of thorazine may include sedation slurred speech dizziness memory loss so the odds of fighting your case may be difficult hopefully you have someone on the outside working on your behalf but it was kept in the single cell 23 hours a day for the next 19 days over their 2 visits together bruce and his father were confident they had solved the murder. I met mike ryan in a 12 step program that i was in he didnt have a place to stay and let him stay on the couch in my apartment and he basically stopped paying any you know worked up my courage and so i got to do you have to go its time to kick your sorry so i started like taking some of the stuff off the shelves and putting them in the boxes and he grabbed me and put me into the bathroom door jam and held a knife to my throat and said if you ever touch my kid. And he was gone and i thought. God is gone my mom told my dad day before the murder that my granddad been there that day looking for money looking for food because you know we know it in our hearts identify my grandchild mom this is a this is the letter discovered writes to monsoon after hes arrested hes behind bars and just dear sir im sure that by this point it has become apparent to you that i love the murder and this is very traditional and riot as a as a potential suspect when monsoor went to find ryan to interview him he tracked him down in a jail in mississippi where i think he was arrested for breaking into a womans house his story was so full of holes i mean you could have driven a truck through it he said that he was sleeping on the streets you sleeping in cardboard until march 10th the he checked into a hollywood one cell which is 12 miles away from our house at around 11 am here in the long hall 32 more all old. I want to. Hear your verbal. Number suddenly at 3 pm on march 10th 4 hours after my mom is killed and rob. Has money to check into a motel. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics sport im showbusiness ill see that. Everybodys reaching for that you political power answer as opposed. To russia and i think the resolution of this is theres going to be a gnostic war thats going to go on for maybe months as john in an already rejected. Must goes off to mediate because the fighting is too early on that people are now battling to see what territory they can get and i think when the fighting settles down and the lines are drawn and people realize that theyre not going to move forward or backwards then theyre going to turn to the other. I dont think that monsoon was out to get i think that he developed what detectives call tunnel vision i had heard a lot of things about him being narrow minded. Once he made his mind up there was no way of making him change his mind and so that that leads to some Serious Problems when youre dealing with a Homicide Investigation detective months who did a search on mike ryans criminal record apparently using the wrong birthdate he had the wrong date of birth for him and if he had the right data birth and he checked criminal records back then he would have found just a few months prior to the dork alister slaying ryan had allegedly held a knife to a friends throat over 12. 00 which you would think would cause you know detective to consider him a little more seriously you know for the defense he was investigating eventually like bruce youre going to have a detention during which time a judge is going to make a determination as to whether youre going to stay in jail or you can be released while you wait your trial will listen a lot of money for attorneys youre not going anywhere basically you go in there with your hands tied behind your back because of the power that we give to Police Officers in this nation. His word carry the day to the constitution are supposed to guarantee a speedy trial and prohibit the use of cruel and unusual punishment myself i spent 15 months before trial in the county jail i made a new word for this crime i was perpetually i was petrified and paranoid at the same time surviving county jail. The 1st thing that youre going to want to do is get out. So whatever you have to do to get the money its worth you definitely dont want to pick. In the jumpsuit. A study of defendants in kentucky found that individuals in jail were over 3 times more likely to be sentenced to prison than those who are released and showed up for court in regular clothes. They can charge over a dollar a minute calls to and from your lawyer your son. Or your dad would want to do the county jail its not fair because they dont treat you in any type of respect hes supposed to be innocent until Proven Guilty ok with this is a place where theres a show that. Innocent until Proven Guilty originally meant. Nobody should ever be denied a trial and it was created as a protection against torturing people into confessions it was established as a shield against mob mentality and witch hunts. In this presumption of innocence until Proven Guilty is the foundational notion of civil justice. Was a teenager who was walking home from school when someone accused him of stealing a backpack the police didnt do any investigating they just arrested him and the next thing you know to the point of coast madeline known as do his family couldnt afford the 10000. 00 bail he missed his sisters wedding the birth of his nephew and so many family events after nearly 3 years of unimaginable torture incarcerated without a trial he was finally offered a deal if you would plead guilty theyd let him go she told me if. I could get. In june he was suddenly free with no explanation no apology no nuffin they just said. Dont worry about. 3 years and. The new yorker reported the cliffs relatives said he was inflicted by paranoia suspecting cops or other authorities said. After a few years after he was released from wreckers island browder took his own life. The 8th amendment to the Us Constitution is also supposed to guarantee us the right to be free from excessive bail. Bail is money that you temporarily loan or give the courts collateral to guarantee they are going to show up for your trial like the rest of the this idea that youre supposed to be free from excessive bail is a right thats regularly violated by our criminal Justice System meanwhile the billboard industry is making profits of 2000000000. 00 a year. What we would need is at least for you to be employed 2 years on the job what you do need to pay is going to be tempered. After 30 days in custody because finally had the opportunity to post. Bail was set at 250000. 00. Or as father had the money i was scared i was so frightened the whole way down i just thought this is. You know i keep using the word nightmare but i mean. This could be the end of my life i dont know i dont know most important david mark and so you is a particular so dont talk to be this is temp hes going to elaborate on the most important rule of all. In 1986 tim was 19 years old he got involved with a girl who was in some trouble shes living with this guy she starts insinuating that shes been sexually abused her like a dummy im contemplating going to get her stuff she says that hes got a gun so you know weve got to be careful the guy that were going with hes a class cool with us take our own guns they start wrestling over this gun i step out of the bathroom. Fight or flight. No skewes is just dumb this is theres no excuse for it i did theres no excuse pulled out my guy and i start shit and listens to 25 years life in california prison system thames 1st advice to new fish a simple star with you got 2 eyes and 2 airs and one mouth. So you should be seen in here and a whole lot more than youre saying if you dont take that advice a using a dig yourself a hole. Wasnt put into so alone i started hearing the scraping sound gets louder and louder new persists and finally you know theres a hole in the wall now and im like the me alone youngster you know whats up on his body hes im a christian you have to worry about me im ok one cigarette you smoke and he wants to bible study with me and he read the bible and about hope and about no truth basically had told him everything that i was arrested for which youre turning to and for years and not much said here stone wall help you with your case anything that i can do and you know by the way do you have any money that i could you know i dont have any money in and you know if you can help me out with some money my dad put money on his books for him and my its when it comes down and has a tape recorder and pushes play at it and its Robert Hughes on the tape saying im in liskeard in the 7000 module of the county jail and and you know he he ran down how he killed his mom. My jaw is just on the table i cant believe it this is my friend this Robert Hughes this christian this good guy my case was the 4th case 4th defendant against whom Robert Hughes had come forward and claimed a confession in the span of about a year and a half i think for about a decade prosecutors had this corrupt alliance with jailhouse informants who would. Either make up or try to solicit confessions from fellow inmates and then use that information to try to get through leniency on their own case their own sentence there was a shift in my attorney with the taper Robert Hughes he gave up on me. I saw it in his eyes. I saw his eyes. Those had been incarcerated now for a year as long as its been which was in comprehensible to me that anybody can spend a day let alone close to a year on bars for something he didnt do now i have another year to wait potentially and so much trial one of the times when i came back up front Juvenile Hall when they were receiving me said wait a minute the date of birth here this guys over 18 he cant associate with other minors because bruce is now an adult they put in the box which means solitary confinement. To a state wide prisoner Hunger Strike began 11 days ago as a protest over solitary confinement conditions and now more than 2300 inmates are refusing to eat solitary confinement prison with. 6 buy and sell everything is made of even. Been there 23 hours days and hour out for recreation. You can be put into solitary confinement for any. Prison guard just get. Shane bauers an american who was arrested in iran for accidentally hiking across their border they put him in solitary confinement i would definitely say that the situation in california is more extreme the cells in california are smaller than the cell i was in iran and theres no windows and cells in california the whole is considered torture by Amnesty International and the United Nations this is anthony graves hes an innocent man who was wrongfully convicted and. Spent 16 years in solitary no one can begin to imagine the psychological effects isolation has another human being 95 percent of americans who spend time in solitary report developing a serious psychiatric condition has become paranoid schizophrenia and casely because they hear voices your more than 5 times more likely to commit suicide in iraq and i know of nobody being in solitary confinement for more than 2 years which is an extremely long period of time but in california in pelican bay state prison the average time is 7 and a half years. To 2 years bruce had been waiting for his child and gone over to this head day after day the judge would say but a jury would think when they had the transcript of detective months his interrogation of my client thats all they need to hear. All the lies all the inconsistency there would be no way he wouldnt be found innocent except the prosecutor filed a motion to deny goos the right to make any mention of my clients name at the trial on the grounds that we couldnt tie my crime to the crime judge turns my attorney what evidence do you have that marc runs types of this as well he was in the county he could have done it and the judge goes is that all you have because he didnt take the time to read the transcript or he was just on autopilot he was not paying attention he was an engaged he says yeah thats it and so. We couldnt tie my client to the crime that was the framework for my trial it is an absolute joke the resources prosecutors have versus Defense Attorneys just im brooks is the director of the california Innocence Project a Nonprofit Group dedicated to helping wrongfully convicted americans get out of prison prosecutors have a police force at their disposal as their investigators there they get the case. From the 1st moment its being investigated they have access to all the people involved and that defense comes late to the date we are at a total disadvantage the 6th amendment to the Us Constitution is supposed to guarantee the right to effective counts but as were seeing in america you have to buy your rights youre more likely to walk free if youre rich and guilty than you are if youre poor and the evidence is to take a month to tell his lies Robert Hughes telling his lies. And no alternate suspects. And so im screwed. Theyre charging me with 1st degree murder which carries 26 years to life and stay frozen thats longer than ive been alive. A day and a half in my journey comes to me in the holding tank and says the judge is willing to entertain a guilty plea in exchange for you through any sentence going to that as a guilty plea which you know not to take a guilty plea and he said i hear you and clothes from the much of the family my fathers best friend comes to the Juvenile Hall and says you have to you have to accept this plea is the number going to sub anything and in doing you know he says look any pounds hand down on the on the bench that were sitting on. The news they are going to convict you of 1st degree murder unless you plead guilty. Hes practically crying as a mother. He was like do whatever you have to do to get home. As the u. S. Economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. 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