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NEW: The Bronx district attorney is reviewing 31 homicide cases handled by 3 detectives who used psychologically coercive techniques to get a 16-yr-old boy to falsely confess to the murder of his mother. He spent 20 yrs in prison before he was exonerated: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/nyregion/3-detectives-obtained-a-false-murder-confession-was-it-one-of-dozens.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
The same detectives also squeezed false confessions out of two other young men three months prior. A jury acquitted the men of murder in an hour, but they had already spent 3 years on Rikers Island.
âThe system â itâs not working for us,â said Dennis Coss, one of the men.
âThe system â itâs not working for us,â said Dennis Coss, one of the men.
The National Registry of Exonerations found that official misconduct played a role in the criminal convictions of more than half of 2,400 Americans who were exonerated. For Black men wrongly convicted of murder, the proportion was 78 percent: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/nyregion/3-detectives-obtained-a-false-murder-confession-was-it-one-of-dozens.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
New York has the third highest exoneration rate â behind Illinois and Texas â and it ranks second for the number of convictions overturned because of a false confession, with 44 such cases since 1992.
Susan Friedman, an innocence lawyer said: âThe question that should be on everyoneâs mind is how many other people were coerced into falsely confessing by these detectives and continue to languish behind bars?â https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/nyregion/3-detectives-obtained-a-false-murder-confession-was-it-one-of-dozens.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
