Pease testifies, says confession was coerced

The first of four Fairbanks men seeking exoneration from convictions for a 1997 murder took the stand at an ongoing evidentiary hearing yesterday.
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As an evidentiary hearing for the Fairbanks Four is underway, protesters make sure the men aren’t forgotten at the AFN convention in Anchorage. Photo: Daysha Eaton/KBBI.
George Frese testified that he drank excessively the night 15-year-old John Hartman was found fatally beaten on a downtown street. Frese said alcohol-induced blac