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@amandaknox
Oct 2, 2021 • 21 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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It’s #WrongfulConvictionDay, and I want to introduce you to some exonerees! Please RETWEET this thread to help raise awareness about the problem of wrongful convictions and to celebrate those who’ve survived the fire.
There are far too many wrongful convictions with a number in their title. Here’s me and @mandunderbridge with Korey Wise of the Central Park 5. Korey was 16 when he was arrested and served nearly 14 years before he was exonerated.
Here’s Anna Vasquez of the San Antonio 4, a group of gay hispanic women falsely accused of child molestation during the satanic panic. Anna served 15 years before she was exonerated in 2016.
Here’s Damien Echols of the #WM3. Damien was 18 when he was arrested, also in connection with a satanic panic case. He served 18 years before he was released on an Alford plea. He & his codefendants, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley are still fighting for full exoneration
Obie Anthony is my exoneree twin! We were both released from prison on the exact same day: Oct 4th, 2011. I interviewed Obie for Labyrinths. He now helps exonerees after they’re released with his foundation @exoneratenation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exo…
It is surprisingly common for exonerees to devote themselves to helping others. During the pandemic, I interviewed dozens for @crimestorymedia. Khalil Rushdan spent 15 years inside for a wrongful murder conviction. He now works with the ACLU in Arizona. crimestory.com/2020/04/13/ama…
@JarrettAdamsLaw spent 10 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Once he was exonerated, he became a lawyer to help free more innocent people.
crimestory.com/2020/09/10/int…
Check out Jarrett's new book, Redeeming Justice!
jarrettadamslaw.com/redeeming-just…
Marty Tankleff @exoner8ed spent 17 years locked up for the murder of his own parents before he was exonerated. He too became a lawyer. Like me, he’s on the board of the @Douglassproject helping to humanize the incarcerated. crimestory.com/2020/05/10/ama…
Noura Jackson was 18 when she was wrongly convicted of stabbing her mother to death. She served 11 years before she was freed. crimestory.com/2020/06/03/ama…
Heidi Goodwin was wrongfully convicted due to the now discredited shaken baby syndrome. She served 10 years before she was exonerated. crimestory.com/2020/04/30/ama…
Jens Soering was a 18-year-old German foreign exchange student in Virginia when he was wrongfully convicted of a double homicide. His case has many echoes of my own, but it took 34 years for him to be released. I covered his story here: art19.com/shows/the-trut…
And there are so, so so many more. Felipe Rodriguez, 27 years.
Orlando Boquete, 13 years, and @bigantdipippo1, 20 years.
Josh Kezer, 15 years.
Juan Rivera, 19 years
Mario Casciaro, 3 years
Michael Hanline, 36 years
Irishman @MisePeterP was on death row for 15 years. After his exoneration, he met his wife Sunny Jacobs, 17 years on death row. Together they founded the @SunnyCenterFDN.
Ryan Ferguson, 10 years, and Darryl Burton, 23 years

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Rarely do I meet people whose compassion floors me. That’s the case with @ScarlettMLewis . She lost her son Jesse in the Sandy Hook tragedy, and it would have been easy for her to become angry and vengeful. But she took a different path. /
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In her first interview in the wake of her son’s murder, she said “I take my part of the responsibility for what happened to Jesse in his school.” Her sister told her, don’t you ever say that. It’s not your fault. And Scarlett said, “If I don’t, who will?”
She forgave the shooter, Adam Lanza, knowing that someone that could do something so heinous must have been in a tremendous amount of pain.
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Dec 31, 2024
I’m writing this from the Panama Hotel and Cafe, which sheltered the valuables of Japanese-Americans forced into internment camps during WWII, and which sheltered me during one of my darkest periods. This is a letter of gratitude to the Japanese.
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Most people see my name and think of Italy, but the first foreign culture that captured my heart was Japan. Manga and anime and sushi led me to study Japanese in high school, and I would often stop through Japantown on my way home from school. Image
I spent countless hours in Kinokuniya, the Japanese bookstore. And my first study abroad experience was actually in Kyoto and Nara, at age 14. I carried Japanese culture with me, even as I later went to study in Italy.
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Dec 18, 2024
You should never be in a room with police for more than an hour. If they read you your Miranda rights, you’re a suspect. Shut it down. Demand a lawyer. This is just some of the advice I got from a retired FBI Special Agent, and two renowned false confessions experts. /thread
After talking with half a dozen exonerees who’d been coerced into making false confessions, and interviewing the world’s leading experts, I wanted to know what advice they’d give. Here’s what they said...
FBI Agent Steve Moore (@Gman_Moore): If they ever make an accusation against you, you’re no longer a witness. You say, I'm leaving. Get a lawyer.
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Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4 - another dark anniversary. 15 yrs ago, I never imagined I would actually be convicted of murder. But my fate was sealed by false statements I never imagined I could be coerced into making. And here’s the bad news: You, too, are at risk for falsely confessing.
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You probably think you’re unlikely to wind up as a suspect in a homicide investigation. I certainly thought so. But consider this: the same interrogation techniques used by homicide detectives are also used in schools and in workplace loss-prevention departments.
School and workplace authorities are trained in the Reid Technique (which you can learn all about at the link below). They employ deception, gaslighting, bullying, and a variety of means to psychologically and physically exhaust you. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/108…
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Nov 28, 2024
Today, I’m grateful for the people who threw me in prison, and those who feasted on my suffering—the police, my prosecutors, the tabloids—because they all taught me so much.

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They taught me how vulnerable I can be, but also how strong I am. They taught me how easily we can be fooled by our biases, and how we can become convinced of something that is not true.
They taught me that even with noble motivations, it is possible to commit great harm. They taught me how not to treat another human being.
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Nov 27, 2024
When the police coerced me into implicating myself in a murder I knew nothing about, little did I know they were following a method: The Reid Technique. It’s used by police across the world to bully suspects into confessing. Protect yourself by learning how it works. /thread
It begins with a non-confrontational Behavioral Analysis Interview. Here, the police act friendly, try to earn your trust, and they look for signs of deception. And if they think you’re lying, they’ll move you into the interrogation phase. But here’s the problem:
Behavioral analysis is junk science. Study after study shows that humans are terrible lie detectors. We’re no better than flipping a coin. That includes studies of police, and those trained in Reid-style behavioral analysis.
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