False guilty plea to murder. Why does this happen? An investigator and others “coerced Simon into making a video taped confession, threatened him with the death penalty, pretended to have a witness to him committing the crime and promised him lucrative book deals.” The result of a draconian unyielding system. And the murderer goes free. This is the sort of system we do NOT want here, Mr. Harper.
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