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The Case of False Confessions - Tyra Patterson
📻 Episode #370
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jun 26, 2023
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.
This updated episode shares with listeners the incredible work Tyra has been doing in recent years.
https://ohiojpc.org/staff/tyra-patterson/
https://www.representjustice.org/about/ambassadors/
https://www.iamtyrafilm.com/
In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:03:36“Speaker 1: the Wright brothers, a lower income, mixed race neighborhood called Speaker 1: Right View. It was just after midnight on a Tuesday Speaker 1: in Right View, September twentieth, nineteen ninety four. Tyra Patterson Speaker 1: was awake and bored. Tyra was nineteen and smart as Speaker 1: hell with a sunny personality. She was full of promise,”
00:13:56“Speaker 1: caught up in a murder is what Tyra's been terrified Speaker 1: of all along, so this is what breaks her. She Speaker 1: falsely admits to snatching the necklace off one of the Speaker 1: girls in the chevy. Now she's confessed to robbery and Speaker 1: the cops have their felony. It's only at this point”
00:24:00“Speaker 4: and that was a powerful message. Speaker 1: You know, I think the first time I heard the Speaker 1: name Tira Patterson was when I opened up my Twitter Speaker 1: feed one day and there I see a video of Speaker 1: Steve giving a speech and holding a poster that says,”
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