Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn't commit?

FRONTLINE investigates the conviction of four sailors in the 1997 rape and murder of a Norfolk, Virginia, woman. The sailors confessed despite the absense of any evidence linking them to the crime.
The case raises disturbing questions about the actions of the police and prosecutors, who relied on the sailors' often contradictory confessions for their convictions, and disregarded DNA evidence that pointed to a lone assailant who would later confess to the crime himself while serving prison time for another rape...FRONTLINE 9pm

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