Inside an interrogation room at Detroit police headquarters in 2002, a now-disgraced homicide detective ordered 22-year-old Pennington Troy McDaniels to look outside the window at the Wayne County jail.
If he didn’t confess, Detective Barbara Simon warned that Wayne County prosecutors would believe whatever she wrote down, whether it was true or not, he says.
“You might as well talk to me, and if you don’t talk to me, you’ll get life in prison,” McDaniels recalls Simon saying during an interrogation at police headquarters after his arrest for murder. “I told her I need a lawyer, and she said no lawyer is going to come in here like on TV. I asked to use a phone, but she said she wants me to talk first.”…