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Daniel be a guess will possibly be freed soon
I after he was wrongfully convicted or possibly wrongfully convicted
in the deaths Ronald England and Armand 0 laws though in 1995
now he was 16 years old at the time and there was a drive-by shooting that
resulted in the death of these two men
and at the time up police officers accused him
and according to what Diego says now they forced him to write a confession
that had information that was inconsistent with someone the
evidence involved in the crime so according to Los Angeles Times biggest
his conviction was based almost entirely
on his one-page dictated confession which did not match the facts of the
case in numerous ways
for example biggest claim that he was writing that night
in a car driven by a man who is in prison at the time
biggest said the car was white it was red so that's just one example or two
examples I should say
up somebody inconsistencies in that confession now I should know
he has not been exonerated there's no DNA evidence or no clear-cut evidence
here proving that he is innocent
however I his defense attorney is asking that they at least grant him bond
and they alcohol-free re trial so we'll see if that happens a judge still hasn't
made
the decision about it but he is expected expected to be for he's expected to be
freed right now you know it's a
in Mason case now with the there's injustice though
in the country it happens right and its our job to play now and in
and and every time it it feels like oh my god I can't believe this happened
but we understand mistakes were made but to me the more interesting part of the
story is
that you know when you see here confession
a jury of peers with that said the guy can fastest what else is there
I'm we understand how easiest to either course a confession
or delete a witness into a confession absolutely especially if your teenager
right breast
if your teenager and you've been accused of this type of crime and you have not
actually committed a crime
often times during the interrogation you know the officials will tell you things
like
if you don't confess you know we're gonna send you to prison right away in
your
in this case they talked about how you know the police officers said that he
was gonna get beaten to death in this and that he was scared the 16-year-old
you know
so I he's a cookie file in his right his confession because maybe that'll get to
go home
there under the impression that that's going to happen since they're young they
get broken down very easily
and in our civic house was the US Congress your life in jail tackling you
know i i kno
even with my three-year-old I try not to leave the witness
because if you do they would kill tell you whatever you what alright hey did
you buy the driver today well yeah I did Baba
do you hear p spoke both
so anything is come to be especially careful about this unfortunate that the
second
lesson to be learned here which is that oftentimes the cops were close the case
and the prosecutors want to get their conviction they know that the car was
read that it was a white
yep they know that the description didn't match crime or you know the guy
was in jail the guy that he said drove the car
right now but they go along with it anyway because the most important thing
is
I want to look good and i wanna get at that check next to my name
for my boss right you want to close the case and and you know the
the Los Angeles Times an excellent job in mentioning other
pieces of evidence or other issues within the original trial that led to
this sixteen-year-old conviction
for in stuff for instance an appellate court found recently that be a guess
did not have adequate counsel during the trial among the witnesses not called in
his defense
with the young woman who was prepared to testify the biggest was babysitting at
the time of the shooting
according to court documents got kind of a big deal that cutting GI donors have
some people graduated from law school graduate from life
like if your defense lawyer you don't call the witness
taxes alibi that knew that he was babysitting
like how bad do you have to be I just I literally can't imagine it yeah
I got get that was not the first question you ask aviators worry that I'm
always babysitting and as the witness were
so yes this will be an adequate defense downright so I'm definitional
I am hoping for a trial I'm and then we'll see what happens after that but
just to give you guys some specific numbers on the number
exonerations and how many of those exonerations
originally had confessions that were completely false and coerced
there were about 1,284 exonerations nationwide since 1989
150 a dove them involved false confessions
so it happens often that's a big number man and so
next time you hear about compression keep them I look most the time the
confession Israel
pride and give that its wat as you should
but keep in mind oftentimes things like this happen and
and their course in different ways