Anatomy of a confession
Subtitle: the Debra Milke case
By: Gary L. Stuart
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781634252737
Subjects: Confession (Law); Trials, litigation; Trials (Murder)
Description: Debra Milke spent twenty-three years on death row for murdering her four year-old son based solely on a confession she never gave. The two men who killed Christopher Milke are still on death row. Neither testified against her, nor would they implicate her. Armando Saldate, the cop who took a true confession from one killer, could not break the other one. So, he made up a confession by the boys mother. The trial judge hid damning impeachment evidence about Saldate. The jury believed the cop over the mother. They all believed her guilty. No one presumed her innocent.