The Case of False Confessions - Teina Pora

📻 Episode #372
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 03, 2023

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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.

We are sharing this updated episode to announce that shortly after the original episode aired, New Zealand opened the Criminal Cases Review Commission, similar to a Conviction Integrity Unit, to investigate possible wrongful convictions. This is a step in the right direction.

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00:03:47
“Speaker 1: southern edge of New Zealand's largest city, Auckland. It's home Speaker 1: to a large minority population, including Maureed's, the indigenous Polynesian Speaker 1: population of New Zealand. Parts of South Auckland can have Speaker 1: no negative connotations. Too often it's associated with poverty and crime. Speaker 1: When our story starts in nineteen ninety two, South Auckland”

00:14:36
“Speaker 1: of Malcolm Rawa, the Court of Appeals throws out Tana's Speaker 1: conviction in nineteen ninety. Speaker 2: Nine, never met him. Now, at this point in time, Speaker 2: where you have a prolific serial rapist operating in the Speaker 2: same neighborhood as the Burdette murder and his DNA is”

00:25:12
“Speaker 4: documentary about Tana's case. Perhaps the most significant development in Speaker 4: twenty years occurred because the person that had been watching Speaker 4: it was a woman called doctor Valerie McGinn. Speaker 1: Doctor McGinn provides Tim with the answer he needs. She Speaker 1: writes report, saying, your clients, mister Tana Pora sounds very”

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