This is from Steve Drizin's e-news on wrongful convictions:
"Get out your VCRS: A & E will re-rerun a show about the false confession of James Harry Reyos, a Native American man, an admitted alcoholic, who was convicted of the murder of a Catholic priest in 1981. Reyos's confession was a voluntary confession; he called the police and called the police from a payphone after nearly a year or so after the murder. The barebones admission that he was the killer was accepted by authorities even though he had a solid alibi. The show, entitled, "Shamed into a false confession" will air on A & E on 4/27 at 12:00p.m. and 6:00p.m.
Check out today's excellent LATIMES Op-ed by Alan Hirsch, a lawyer and college professor teaching constitutional law at Williams College in Massachusetts. Alan, a Yale law school graduate, who has written a number of books on a variety of legal topics, has recently turned his attention to the subject of false confessions in a series of articles and a new blog worth checking out on false confessions. www.truthaboutfalseconfessions.com/.
Stay tuned for my announcement of my soon-to be released informal blog on false confessions which, may ultimately replace this listserve if I find double-duty to be too onerous. (I can hear the cheers of all of you folks who won't have to read these e-mails anymore).
For a link to Alan's Op-ed see:
www.latimes.com/news/opin...-opinions"
"Get out your VCRS: A & E will re-rerun a show about the false confession of James Harry Reyos, a Native American man, an admitted alcoholic, who was convicted of the murder of a Catholic priest in 1981. Reyos's confession was a voluntary confession; he called the police and called the police from a payphone after nearly a year or so after the murder. The barebones admission that he was the killer was accepted by authorities even though he had a solid alibi. The show, entitled, "Shamed into a false confession" will air on A & E on 4/27 at 12:00p.m. and 6:00p.m.
Check out today's excellent LATIMES Op-ed by Alan Hirsch, a lawyer and college professor teaching constitutional law at Williams College in Massachusetts. Alan, a Yale law school graduate, who has written a number of books on a variety of legal topics, has recently turned his attention to the subject of false confessions in a series of articles and a new blog worth checking out on false confessions. www.truthaboutfalseconfessions.com/.
Stay tuned for my announcement of my soon-to be released informal blog on false confessions which, may ultimately replace this listserve if I find double-duty to be too onerous. (I can hear the cheers of all of you folks who won't have to read these e-mails anymore).
For a link to Alan's Op-ed see:
www.latimes.com/news/opin...-opinions"
