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Wanted, they would stop what they're doing, i could go home afterwards and made up a story. >> he was convicted and spent 16 years in prison before he was exonerated in 2006 based on a re-examination of dna evidence. >> oh, by the way, the officer, the detective can lie to a defendant? >> in the united states, a detective can legally lie about the evidence to a suspect. >> a 2007 report on the case commissioned by the westchester county, new york, d.a.'s office pointed out that adolescents are at a higher risk for confessing to a crime they did not commit and also called out detectives for sel...

Confessions and almost half of them were under 21 years old. >> when you start looking at false confession cases, you're looking at interrogations that last 6 hours, 8 hours, 10, 12, 20 hours. people have a breaking point. >> no food. they kept repeating the same questions over and over again. they did wear me down. >> in 1989 jeffrey deskovic was 16 when he was questioned by peak skill new york police about the murder and rape of a classmate. hungry and alone for hours with detectives who made what he says false promises of freedom, deskovic cracked. >> they added if i did as they wanted they...

Questioned by peak skill new york police about the murder of rape of a classmate. hungry and alone for hours with detectives who made what he says were false promises of freedom, he cracked. >> he added that if i did as they wanted that they would stop what they're doing,ic go home afterwards and i made up a story based on information they gave me during the course of the interrogation. >> he was convicted and spent 16 years in prison before he was exonerated in 2006 based on a re-examination of dna evidence. >> by the way, the detective can lie legally to the defendant. >> in the united state...

He's done a fantastic job. but you're talking about a long time ago. and again it was a decision made i think not by him but by a lot of people. >> reporter: so we're also hearing another argument coming from the white house. this morning the vice president's chief of staff, marc short, made sure to note that alex acosta, according to short, was being requested to be taken off the case by epstein's lawyers, by the defense, because epstein's lawyers believed that he was too aggressive in this case. so don't be surprised if you hear more about that later this afternoon. from the sounds of it, th...

Week asked the court at the last moment to not only rule in their favor on the administrative procedure but preempt the other potential litigation around racial bias and we'll see if they are willing to go that far in a request that came in, but the evidence that has come out about the intent of this question, both the partisan and the racial logic and motivation behind it is so powerful that a 5-4 party line decision on this, i think, will resonate as strongly as citizens united or shelby county which are the other two kind of landmark setting the rules of politics decisions in the john rober...