In this episode, Confession of Guilt, I'm shaking my
head...as I've mentioned before in posts the "Storytelling Fairies" enjoy toying
with me during writing projects...tantalizing me with impossibly rare Synchronicity coincidences that tell me they are watching and approve of the story I'm currently telling!
I haven't seen these Rumpole episodes
for 30 years, but I recently saw this one...a person of color was
collared for a crime he didn't commit and railroaded into a coerced
confession by the detective who arrested him.
Why is this such a remarkable coincidence, in my current project In Development, A Judas Kiss For Justice, in the Holly Staker Murder case a young man of color, also feeble minded, was arrested without evidence for the gruesome murder of a young girl, Holly Staker. They grilled him for hours until he signed a coerced confession, which was the prosecution's only evidence used to convict him three times before the Northwestern University-Center for Wrongful Convictions exonerated Juan Rivera, who later earned a 20 million dollar settlement. This case was the primary reason for the author, Ron Kranig, to write his memoir, in hopes of finally finding Justice for Holly Staker whose killer, 20 years later, is still unidentified.
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