Chris Ochoa: A True Story of a False Confession — Transcript

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1. 0:00my name is Christopher
2. 0:02[Music]
3. 0:28Ooa
4. 0:31I I think the police while they were
5. 0:34interrogating me they knew what they
6. 0:36were doing they knew I didn't have a
7. 0:37record they as one of the one of my
8. 0:40attorneys that worked on my exoneration
9. 0:43and getting me released said you know
10. 0:46they sized me up pretty quick they they
11. 0:49knew who they had and they they knew
12. 0:51just what buns to
13. 0:52push there was threats of the death
14. 0:55penalty
15. 0:58and sign a statement or confession I
16. 1:01would be executed they at one point they
17. 1:05one of them grabbed my arm and tap the
18. 1:09tap my arm the vein said this is where
19. 1:12the needle's going to go if you don't
20. 1:13cooperate with us some point he brought
21. 1:15in pictures of a a cell on death row or
22. 1:17so he said it was a cell on death row so
23. 1:20if you don't cooperate us this is um
24. 1:23where you going to live the rest of your
25. 1:25life until you die you won't never get
26. 1:27to hold anybody again you won't get to
27. 1:28hug your parents or whatnot at one point
28. 1:32I asked for an
29. 1:34attorney and they said I couldn't have
30. 1:36one to I was officially
31. 1:38charged uh which the questions kept on
32. 1:41coming which I find out later shouldn't
33. 1:43have kept on coming and at one point at
34. 1:46the final stage with on the first on the
35. 1:49final stage when I just broke down I was
36. 1:51tired I was hungry I was like just
37. 1:54wanted to go home one of the officers
38. 1:57yelled at me and said you know what I'm
39. 1:59getting tired BS I'm going to lock you
40. 2:01up and and throw you in the jail cell
41. 2:03you're young you've never been in jail
42. 2:06you'll be fresh meat for the prisoners
43. 2:08and I took that to me in jail house rape
44. 2:11and that really shook me up and uh in
45. 2:15addition to being tired I just said okay
46. 2:18what do you want me to do how do you
47. 2:20what do you want me to do what what I do
48. 2:23I mean I guess what people are trying to
49. 2:25find out is but still you could have
50. 2:27asked uh you could have not said
51. 2:29anything
52. 2:30you well as I said I was denied the
53. 2:33right to uh attorney they wouldn't let
54. 2:36me go even though you're taught in
55. 2:38school what your rights are and all us
56. 2:40As Americans at that time everything
57. 2:43goes out the window you just don't know
58. 2:45what's going on your mind is scrambled
59. 2:48because this is not a normal
60. 2:50situation I think sometimes people don't
61. 2:54care too much about false confessions
62. 2:56but I think that's the wrong attitude to
63. 2:58take because
64. 3:00if it happened to me a guy had never
65. 3:03been in
66. 3:04trouble it could happen to anybody I
67. 3:07mean it can happen to you it's I mean I
68. 3:10mean there's it can happen to you i'
69. 3:13never been in trouble I was mining my
70. 3:15own business all of a sudden I'm picked
71. 3:17up and it has happened to normal people
72. 3:21Everyday People every day people are
73. 3:23exonerated that were law-abiding
74. 3:26citizens and they were course into
75. 3:29sudden false
76. 3:30confessions that's why people should
77. 3:32care it could happen to their sons their
78. 3:34daughters their nephews it could happen
79. 3:37to
80. 3:39[Music]
81. 3:58them
82. 4:02sh