false confessions
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Police Interrogation Firm Sues Ava DuVernay and Netflix, Claiming Defamation for When They See Us
John E. Reid and Associates, the firm behind the controversial police interrogation method the Reid Technique, has filed a federal lawsuit against When They See Us writer and director Ava DuVernay and network Netflix for defamation, according to Variety. The firm was founded by John E. Reid, a former Chicago police officer. When They See…
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After Being Wrongly Jailed for 23 Years, Chicago Man Gets His Old Job Back. Whoopee
Sorry if I am not head over heels happy that Nevest Coleman has his old job back after spending more than two decades in prison doing hard time for a crime he didn’t commit. Coleman, now 49, was the belle of the press on Monday when he returned to his old job as a groundskeeper…
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Yusef Salaam of the Central Park Five: Trump ‘Unfit to Be President’
Yusef Salaam has been living in the dark shadow of Donald Trump since he was a teenager accused, and convicted, of raping a woman in New York City’s Central Park more than 27 years ago. It was a crime of which he was innocent. “I still have to defend myself,” says Salaam. “I still have…