A child was there civilians were among the casualties and it lips city i was like did it have a jihad in the afternoon it lapses he was targeted by stick or 23 jets they hit the Industrial Area and alcohol markets caution must of those hurt have serious injuries. In a nearby hospital friends console a father grieving his son was a ceasefire which started on sunday was shattered on one so. 6 i was in syrian and russian jets attacked it that city as well as several rebel held town was the ceasefire was brokered by turkey which supports the rebels and russia which backed the syrian governments 9 month offensive thank fighters are going to al qaeda are the strongest forces in these areas home to around 3000000 civilians according to the u. N. Close 2400000 syrians have been forced from their homes and it lives in the past 10 weeks no time no shelter no food people are starving to death in this governor and theyre not being bald theyre dying because theyre hungry the kremlin says its targeted rebels whove attacked civilian government held areas and whats supposed to be a socalled deescalation zone i russia and turkey are reported to have been a go she to be a sampling of a secure zone for the displaced during the winter and russia has announced humanitarian corridors have already been established to allow people in its lips to cross over into government held territory. Its unclear how many have chosen to go. Beyond aljazeera now despite International Pressure to abide by its 2015 Nuclear Deal Commitments iran says it will continue to enrich uranium in a televised speech president Hassan Rouhani said tehran has now surpassed the limit set under that agreement his statement comes just days after 3 e. U. Nations that were party to the deal they want to dispute mechanism that could lead to more sanctions being imposed on iran. When the u. S. Pulled out of the nuclear deal contacted you know the party and expressed our preparedness to fulfill our obligations however today we in terms of the Nuclear Power we have no limit and we are in a much better situation compared to before the deal i would you really im in richmond today its much higher than that stipulated in the deal we had signed we cannot see. We will reciprocate. Turkeys president says the deployment of troops to libya has begun earlier this month the Turkish Parliament approved a plan to support the internationally recognized government of tripoli its fighting forces loyal to war Khalifa Haftar the us d house of representatives has delivered articles of impeachment against donald trump to the senate for a trial hes accused of abuse of power for threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for political favor the trial is expected to start on tuesday mornings of another volcanic eruption in the philippines have forced thousands more people to abandon their homes towns near the towell kaner have been devastated by falling ash and Evacuation Centers across batangas province on wasteful. The u. S. And china have signed the 1st phase of a deal to ease their trade war china has promised to increase u. S. Imports and strengthen intellectual property rules the u. S. In return will remove some tariffs on chinese goods well those are the headlines to join me for more news here after witness stay with us. Oh. You were a Police Headquarters with you all star detective talking about her then youre really into it you leave that up i just stand here watch you cry or 5 minutes youre not going home tonight i can guarantee you that. Welcome back to Wrongful Conviction when jason today were going to be doing a deep dive into an issue that is as fascinating as it is terrifying which is the phenomenon of false confessions and my guest today is going to be jane fisher by reality and whos currently working on 4 cases involving false confessions and each is fascinating its own way so jane welcome thank you for convection happy to be here and jane is an attorney who is an expert on false confessions 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 of doing civil rights work. My name is old castle im a 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 isnt. 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 1995. 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 the victim was that it was her landlord and so they are start looking into rent 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 kareem was in florida at the time of our like well. I guess they knew karim 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 told. 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 went out if that happened he would be standing punching her here right when chremes head here in the face he knocked the wig off louises head a wig 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 thats correct and the phone cord is where the extra d. N. A. Is ringback. Im just in the its Jean Fisher Byron also in renee lynchs attorney i have a call with her this morning. Ok thanks. Hi how. Are. You live for quite right. 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 as it was coerced when i talked to him about this theyre like well 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 vulnerable under the circumstance of interrogation we are all there have been some trained 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 a woman and theyre going to delay the confessions trumped 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 the forced conversion is that ocean approached. 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 a sciri 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 offices 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 u. N. And it was a co 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 while 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 whole when they finally are recording him hes doubting himself you know hes hes wondering did i do this. I think you can. Be. 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 this. And remember this and to go around the room was about. And then. Present to me a. Mess as i was at present and you know and so. I had taken. Its hands during play time and place in her own mind. Going for a measure. You know for sure if for them that your question or your. So what when you say gave him pleasure at one time that was central. And it would have to be. I dont know you know. My memory everyone listening to this know that it is your announces to mend it 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 of page if you read this out here today were 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 with the truth but mounted 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 that quote we move 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. In. Our us tom. If you tell everything to dismiss this case after our nation is gathered in our stands now. We have to stand and. This. Is opposed by mr didden own demands he still in fact is awful for dansko us that 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 cement city for it to pass says 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 from passing to an actual crime that they didnt commit in this case he was confessing to something that never even happened right 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 our firm represented corey wise on his civil rights case im not thats a hell of a way to start i mean youre diving right into 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 to majors but they couldnt be 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 exonerated the best time for that year was 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 the core even have anyone in the room with now is going to be 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. To that. This is very very serious this neighborhood 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 you know what. It is hard for people to understand how this can happen how 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 that situation he was under intense pressure for many many hours right he was likely be told that others were giving stories and that he needed to cooperate in order to go it is very telling in the central park 5 case that every one of them every one of the boys and every one of the parents who were present were surprised that the boys were arrested after their statements every one of them thought i was going home