Topic : 01/09 False Confessions

This is an excellent topic and I am anxious to see this episode.  I have had one too many experiences with dirty cops and therefore in my opinion all cops are dirty cops.  I know that this is not true by far, but I have yet to have even one good experience with the police.  The one or two times that I have needed their assistance for this reason or that, I ended up being treated with a disrespect that went over and above any boundary.  I am a college educated female that works every day and takes care of my family, so I expect the consideration and respect from law enforcement that they so publicly portray.  Sorry for being so one-sided on this issue; however, I feel very strongly that law enforcement take their authority too far at every opportunity.

People that are innocent usually are willing to talk the the police. If you do not mind me asking and if you are willing to answer.  What interrogation techniques do you use and train your officers to use after you read the person  the Mirinda Rights? Some officer's use the blame,  hurt, psychological problems, proof, and give the person choices as ploys.  Some do not.  I think you might help people to understand what goes on in the interrogation room as far the mean use use to get the truth from some one you are questioning.  Again innocent people usually do not feel that they need a lawyer and if they ask for one it give the impression to police that they are quilty.

I have a son who made a false confession in Virginia and I am the PA mom who Mr . Tice was refering to.  I am not giving up the fight for justice either.  My son was also convicted solely on his confession . A  State Police fire scene investigator  investigated a fire in which a life was lost., my grandson.  He  shut the door and left the fire scene with out ruling out the electrical as a cause and he found no evidence of arson. Although while he was there he determined the origin and had taken samples to be tested. Those samples came back negative before the interrogation. His faulty investigation then led to a false confession and then led to an innocent person, my son, being convicted.  He changed his origin and ruled out the electrical that he never tested in the court room.  It is easy for the police to trick a person into confessing to crime they did not commit and it is easy for the police to change there originial findings in the court room to support it.   You are not alone in your fight for justice. I wish you the best of luck

That Detective McCready who coerced the original confession out of him when he was a teenager  Detective McCready may just be the best proof of his innocence he didn't come off looking so good.  I was surprised that he even refused to consider the possibility that Marty might be innocent.

Nancy

a/k/a Wolfbitch... I just had to change that screen name!

"He has spent the last six years in one of Virginia's worst prisons Wallens RIdge, while we fight to prove his innocence.  He was convicted solely on the false confession of a former friend and the testimony of a jailhouse snitch." 

If both of your relatives are innocent, I  pray to God they are released soon. However, there are but a few mothers who would believe their children/family members are criminals, much less killers. And don't forget that a prosecutor and/or judge didn't find your relatives guilty, a "jury of their peers" (many people) took the time to hear all the evidence and come to a conclusion.

As a former law enforcement officer, I have yet to see a case won at trial that was won based solely on a "false confession" and a "jail house snitch." There are two sides to every story...the defense (yours) and the prosecutions (the public's).

Hopefully justice was served. If it were not, may God help your family members regain their freedom!  I am having to work to KEEP my cousin's killer in a Florida prison; his parents think he was innocent, too!!!

"He has spent the last six years in one of Virginia's worst prisons Wallens RIdge, while we fight to prove his innocence.  He was convicted solely on the false confession of a former friend and the testimony of a jailhouse snitch." 

If both of your relatives are innocent, I  pray to God they are released soon. However, there are but a few mothers who would believe their children/family members are criminals, much less killers. And don't forget that a prosecutor and/or judge didn't find your relatives guilty, a "jury of their peers" (many people) took the time to hear all the evidence and come to a conclusion.

As a former law enforcement officer, I have yet to see a case won at trial that was won based solely on a "false confession" and a "jail house snitch." There are two sides to every story...the defense (yours) and the prosecutions (the public's).

Hopefully justice was served. If it were not, may God help your family members regain their freedom!  I am having to work to KEEP my cousin's killer in a Florida prison; his parents think he was innocent, too!!!