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Denver Police Sued by Man Coerced Into Murder Confession at Age of Fourteen

June 22, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1674 Views Accountability, Civil rights, CO, coerced confession, Colorado, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, David Fisher, Denver, Denver homicide detectives, denver police department, Dishonesty, DNA, Double Standard, Emily Johnson, false confession, false conviction, Fox 31 Denver, freedom, Harassment, Homicide, innocent, interrogation, Justice System, kelly patterson, Lawrence Lorenzo Montoya, lawsuit, life sentence, Lisa Polansky, murder, new years, police, police abuse, police accountability, police interrogation tape, Police State, rights, teacher, video

When he was just fourteen years old Lawrence Lorenzo Montoya, was arrested on suspicion of having committed a murder. Initially,

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Articles Toxic Cops

Cop’s False Testimony Sent Teen to Prison for 9 Years, Despite Real Killer’s Confession Weeks After Sentencing

June 15, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2138 Views Accountability, affidavit, Civil rights, conviction overturned, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, cover up, credibility, Davontae Sanford, Deputy Police Chief James Tolbert, detailed diagram of the crime scene, detective, detroit, detroit police department, Dishonesty, Dykema Gossett, false confession, false conviction, false testimony, Flint, Flint Police Department, freedom, Heidi Naasko, Hitman, Homicide, Judge Brian Sullivan, Justice System, kelly patterson, Kwame Kilpatrick, lawsuit, location of the victims’ bodies, MI, Michigan, Michigan Innoncence Clinic, Michigan State Appellate Defender's Office, michigan state police, murder, Northwestern Center for the Wrongful Convictions of Youth, Odell Godbold, police, police abuse, police accountability, quadruple homicide, rights, Scandal, second degree murder, Strippers, suspended from practicing law, Tamara Greene, Vincent Smothers, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office

On Tuesday, a Detroit man who had been in prison since the age of fourteen, due to false testimony by

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Articles Police Abuse Toxic Cops

2015 Was a Record Year For Exonerations of Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners

March 5, 2016March 5, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1298 Views Arson, brooklyn, Cameron Todd Willingham, capital punishment, Cheese, chocolate chip cookies, committed doubters, controlled substance, criminal justice system, Death Penalty, death row, declared innocent, drug crimes, Drug war, exonerated, false conviction, false convictions, false guilty pleas, forensic arson investigation, freedom, Harassment, Harris County, Homicide, intellectually disabled, judicial misconduct, Justice System, juvenile, kelly patterson, la, Louisiana, Making a Murderer, mentally ill, mistaken for drugs, Mother Jones, MotherJones.com, National Registry of Exonerations, new orleans, New York, no victim no crime, no-crime crimes, non-violent, ny, Officer Misconduct, overrepresented on death row, Plea Bargain, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, prosecutor misconduct, radio program, Radley Balko, repost, rights, riven with errors and official misconduct, Serial, Texas, the war on some drugs, tortilla dough, University of Michigan Law School, victimless crime, washington post, wrongfull convictions

As originally reported by Mother Jones, a report from the University of Michigan Law School has declared that 2015 set

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Articles CopBlock Submission

A Small Town Injustice

January 16, 2016January 25, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1285 Views Accountability, Advance Technology Institute, biker, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, custom license plates, Dishonesty, false conviction, felony evading, freedom, Ft. Eustis, Harassment, Interstate 264, Interstate 64, Interstate 664, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Sheriff's Office, James River Bridge, jedbke, Jedediah Mountz, JRB, Justice System, kelly patterson, Mercury Blvd, Monitor and Merrimac Tunnel, motorcyclists, Newport News, no victim no crime, Norfolk, Officer Pitts, police, police abuse, police accountability, portsmouth, Reckless driving, rights, roadblock, Rt 258, Scott's Factory Road, Shawn Cline, Smithfeild, Turner Drive, va, Virginia, virginia state police, VSP

The following post was submitted by Jedediah Mountz, via the CopBlock.org submissions page. Date of Incident: December 1, 2014 Officer

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Lying Cops Ruin An Innocent Pennsylvania Man’s Life, Now Won’t Even Apologize

April 24, 2015April 23, 2015 CopBlock 1355 Views Accountability, Arson, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, false confession, false conviction, Harassment, Justice System, Karla Dewey, Lehigh Valley Live, lying cop, pa, Pennsylvania, police, rights, Zachary Handley

A Pennsylvania man is getting a chance at getting his life back, seven and a half years after lying cops

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