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The Case of False Confessions - Tyra Patterson
📻 Episode #164
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 19, 2020
About This Episode
The prisons are filled with people convicted of murder who never killed anyone.
The Case
The prisons are filled with people convicted of murder who never killed anyone.
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to Dayton, Ohio where a young woman’s false confession to robbery gets turned into a false conviction for murder. There are two profound lies at work in the legal system here.
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00:03:20“Speaker 1: out at Tyra's place, and they decided to go for Speaker 1: a walk outside. They ran into five other young people Speaker 1: from right view. Tyra barely knew most of them, but Speaker 1: she and Rebecca stuck around anyway. The group was mixed Speaker 1: gender and mixed race. Five were black, including Tyra, and”
00:13:22“Speaker 4: point you hear somebody screaming in another room and she's Speaker 4: just terrified. And another point, I recall very vividly. She's Speaker 4: looking to the detective for an answer. I mean, she Speaker 4: was trying to satisfy what he wanted because she thought Speaker 4: that was her ticket to go back home and continue”
00:23:07“Speaker 2: anybody could falsely confess if pressured by the police, and Speaker 2: I am Tyra Patterson to me, was making that message Speaker 2: loud and clear. Speaker 1: I could have been Tyra Patterson. Speaker 2: Now, my child could have been Tyra Patterson. Speaker 4: That's how Tyra became, in my view, her best advocate.”
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