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Latest exoneration highlights problem of false confessions

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The latest exoneration out of Dallas involved a deaf man who spent 17 years behind bars on a rape charge thanks to a false confession in which he also confessed to a crime police had made up. According to the Dallas News, Stephen Matthew Brodie:originally pleaded guilty in 1993 to the abduction and assault of a 5-year-old girl in exchange for a five-year sentence. He had come to investigators' attention when he was arrested and confessed to breaking into a soft drink machine not far from the girl's home.During Monday's three-hour hearing, Levario heard from prosecution and defense witnesses about problems with the investigation. Evidence showed that shortly after Brodie's plea, police matched a fingerprint found on a window screen at the girl's house to a suspected serial rapist, Robert Warterfield, who was convicted of a similar crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).

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