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The Case of False Confessions - Teina Pora
📻 Episode #120
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 25, 2020
About This Episode
Have you heard about New Zealand's Brendan Dassey?
The Case
Have you heard about New Zealand's Brendan Dassey?
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us across the globe to New Zealand with a story that hits way too close to home: a sixteen-year-old boy confessed to a rape and murder he didn’t commit. His wrongful conviction allowed the real offender, a serial rapist, to assault dozens of other women -- while Teina Pora languished behind bars for 20 years.
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00:03:24“Speaker 1: at work the next few days, her colleagues get concerned. Speaker 1: They call her friend Steve eventually to find out if Speaker 1: he knows where she is. Steve gets worried and he Speaker 1: ends up going over to Susan's house That Wednesday, March Speaker 1: twenty fifth, at about twelve forty pm, he finds the”
00:14:18“Speaker 1: acted alone, and even though Rewa would never have wanted Speaker 1: some teenager there to witness his sexual dysfunction. Speaker 2: So now we have round two of a battle between Speaker 2: confession evidence and DNA evidence, except this time we know Speaker 2: whose DNA it is. It's the DNA of a serial”
00:24:40“Speaker 3: so when you look at those types of behaviors and Speaker 3: then you consider the position Taaner was in when he Speaker 3: was in the police station in nineteen ninety three, it Speaker 3: almost makes it inevitable that he was going to confess Speaker 1: Doctor mcginnon confirms categorically that Tena suffers from an FASD disorder,”
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