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Before you can fix something that\'s broken.

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You need to understand how it works.

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Hi I\'m Usher and the documentary
you\'re about to see

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takes a hard look at the criminal justice
system that\'s almost beyond repair.

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Prosecutors seeking harsher
sentences public defenders with

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hundreds of clients each inmate
spending years in jail before trial

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Stories like this happened
every day in cities across

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America including the one
where this story takes place.

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New Orleans Louisiana where the
good times roll except for crime.

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We decided to take a look at

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the criminal justice system in the state
that leads the nation in imprisonment.

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No mean feat when America\'s
rate of incarceration leaves

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But this story isn\'t about statistics.
It\'s about race.

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And about one young man
who had been navigating

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the criminal justice system
for almost half his life.

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I you have the Beale Viking you have
the Beale soldiers to survive And

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this is serious you\'re not
a soldier not a Vijay.

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Madness will break you in half.

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When we first met Tim con
early in 2016 he was in

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the Orleans Parish jail awaiting trial for
an armed robbery he says he did not commit

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The jail holds more than 1400 prisoners.

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Nearly all of them black.

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Tombs public defender.

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His will Snowden.

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I came to New Orleans to be part of the
Orleans public defenders to fight for people.

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For me it\'s very difficult to
continuously see black man in

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orange jumpsuit and silver chains with
orange sandals on shuffling their feet.

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I don\'t know what slavery sounds like.

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But when you hear those
chains rustling through

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the courtroom and filing
in and sitting down.

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And those people look like me.
It\'s personal

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I hope you\'ll wonder what
our goal do backyard.

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I\'m Sam beer I\'m me and a lag doll.

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1819 I was at a deep only come
off for four hours a day.

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And I\'m saying it\'s crazy.

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Dusk in the French Quarter and makeup
for tourists send a magnet for

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petty cab drivers like Tony shuffling who
was always on the lookout for customers.

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I was riding a petty cab down bn
Beale Street and as I was crossing

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bourbon three passengers flag me down asked
if they could have a ride. I said they could

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And we started doing a couple of
loops around the French Quarter.

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Medicare problem claiming
that he got wrong.

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Replay males at the corner
of the bill and re-import.

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It was a violent crime.

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Shuffled was hurt.

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And one of his passengers was taken to
the hospital or doctor who started their

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caloric and during one of the suspects
had stolen the passengers credit card.

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You\'d also taken shift looks iPhone

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Which have a GPS tracker on it.

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The man who dropped shift
looks phone was Robert pool.

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The police also detained
Tim counter Lee who

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was walking down the street
about 15 feet away from

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pool holies whip up home

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somebody Hey what are you doing could
do just get up and get the calm like.

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I got no problem with that.

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Surge meta Huan Lai Miao was going on.
He lie.

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We\'re going to tell you in a
Minnesota had called me the

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tame me and drove me in a
bag and pull these call.

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These is picked me up as a random person.

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Grappling with the police put

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commonly and pool in handcuffs
and shine a spotlight on them.

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One at a time the passengers and

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their petty cab driver quickly
identified the two as their assailants.

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Caught early and pool were
arrested and taken into custody.

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Detective interrogated pool
who confessed to the crime

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and would eventually accepted
a plea bargain of 15 years.

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You go guys so foia

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if nobody

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nobody nobody had moveon.

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Alright almost obvious about xi right now.

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What did go downstairs you can speak there.

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So Connally was officially
charged with armed robbery.

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He would remain in jail for
more than two years before

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the criminal justice system would give him

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an opportunity to tell his
side of the story until then

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all he could do was bemoan the
circumstances that got him here.

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Dwarf fit the description I don\'t know.

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But they\'re looking for a young black
male right you\'re a young black man

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right is the criminal justice system

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in your opinion inherently unfair
to poor people to black people.

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Here in New Orleans. No
Leon Kennedy 0 first strand

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for New Orleans District Attorney in 2008
on a platform that was tough on crime.

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Violent crime spiraling out of control

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It\'s made a total commitment to fight.

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Kinda 0 is now serving
his second term as DA.

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I am declaring war on
the criminal element of

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the city on the platform
he ran on hasn\'t changed.

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Neither has the crime rate.

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This is a city right now where we have
in 2017 hand over 600 shootings and

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killings had over 500 reported and

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unreported armed robberies and
literally hundreds of sexual assaults.

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This is a very dangerous and
a very violent community.

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There\'s a lot of bad stuff happening
in the city of New Orleans

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But according to defense attorney and

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City Council President Jason
Williams New Orleans crime rate

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is only part of the equation.

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What\'s left out Williams says
is that Ken Azara accepts

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nearly 90% of the cases brought
to him by the police were on

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a consent decree and the city of

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New Orleans where the federal
government that Department of Justice

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has said that our police department is
flawed and has problems in it has issues.

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Specifically the Justice Department
said the NOP D engaged in patterns of

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misconduct that violate the constitution
including discriminatory policing

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On the basis of race at a time when the
Department of Justice is saying that

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our police department is more fluid than
any other in the country or in the state.

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He\'s saying that they\'re right.

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90% of the time.

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I have a great deal of confidence
in the police department for

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the city of New Orleans I
challenge anyone to take a case

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that we have accepted and come
and tell me whether or not you

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think we were overzealous in our efforts
to accept a charge against someone.

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We\'re going to have a
conversation today about

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our criminal justice system will Snowden is
often invited to lecture on criminal justice.

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Here he\'s speaking to a high
school civics class about

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his client Jim Connelly
the evidence in the case.

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These individuals get robbed
in the French Quarter.

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The police are looking for two black
males and when they hit the corner they

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see the guy with the phone and they
see my guy Tim five yards in front.

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When I look at person number one
they just saw him with the iPhone.

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And they searched him they find
objects from the wallet that debit

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cards and a receipt from an ATM
Tim he doesn\'t have the gun.

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He doesn\'t have any phone.

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It doesn\'t have any debit cards.

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He doesn\'t have any other people\'s ideas.

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He doesn\'t have any property from them.

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It doesn\'t have anything on him that\'s
associated him with that armed robbery.

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But he fits the description.

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The description being a black mu.

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I don\'t think any nypd detective
or any NLP officer would

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knowingly and intentionally be part of

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investigation that\'s going
to imprison innocent person.

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But I do know that in a response to

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violent crime they want to be able to
show a crime and arrest and a conviction.

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And unfortunately Tim was put
into that scenario to be part of

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that equation where the police were able to
close a case instead of solving a crime.

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Con really spent 28 months of his
life in the Orleans Parish jail

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Waiting for a trial that was
always just around the corner.

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When you\'re accepting 90%
of the cases that are

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presented by the police department
you\'re over inflating the court docket.

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And you are burdening the court
dockets such that you have

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so many cases coming every single day
that you can\'t get through them.

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The backlog also affects the Orleans public
defenders office and those they represent.

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85% of everyone arrested
and charged with a crime.

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As my case loads grew me my first-year
second-year 30 years my case kept on ballooning.

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I came to understand that

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I was given so many cases that I was

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no longer able to be the public defender.
I thought I was going to be.

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What\'s the workload of the average
public defender to high how

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high well when I was a Level
two attorney which is kinda

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like lower-level felony cases
into levels three cases.

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I think I got up to about

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a 80800080 cases a 180 clients a 180
people that I was responsible for.

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You can\'t be responsible for a 180 people.
It\'s impossible.

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It\'s borderline unconstitutional.

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In these quarters

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The sixth Amendment of the
Constitution which guarantees

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the right to a speedy trial
is regularly overlooked.

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Gear. The weight is often
measured in years.

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When we met Halbert Adams the 11 months
he\'d been here felt a lot longer.

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It feels like the term is gone
backwards light but hasn\'t o\'clock.

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I\'m not spinning for his hair and find a
self her tutor years still at day one.

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And there\'s no progress. And I just
prayed day My time is not that loan here.

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Because honestly I don\'t have an
immune to doing them one time.

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Neither did Tim Connor Lee

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Who one day decided he didn\'t
want to face and other Tomorrow.

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I was sitting in my cell and I which is gone
to the tells like Man I\'m number going ONE.

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A cane builds is no most slots took a
sheet that was in my cell and I tied it

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up on a bores they help slide slide bars
that tied it to the top would have boars.

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And I\'d from the points holiday it would
it wrapped around my neck and I don\'t

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want to jump started choking me all I
remember is just meet blacked out.

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I went out blacked out.

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I woke up in a hospital.

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Van. Tim was put on suicide watch.

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You\'re in a smart. You\'ll
have any underclothes zone

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you\'d Nike or like a
street Jackie right now.

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So you will home yourself into the cell.

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And I have no tissue.

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You have soap to brush not day.

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You\'ll have a blank uses
that match was and is

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freezing cold and epsilon i
said enough with three months.

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And it\'s designed to crack you mentally as

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feverishly and test your
faith and religion inches.

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It breaks you down as a person.

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So when you feel like you\'re less of

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human sand here is you\'re guilty
until proven guilty. And IT

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Seems like desk awareness is innocent until

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proven guilty and not here as
guilty until proven guilty.

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Innocent people get convicted
of crimes all the time.

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Especially in this country black
men get convicted of crimes.

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They could not have committed all the time.

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Anyone that suggest that that is not
happening and it has not happened in

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this south is blind and is ignoring the
simple history of the state of Louisiana

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These men were all found
guilty of violent crimes.

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They did not commit. All were freed after
spending years of their lives in prison.

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Is often Johnson who was
exonerated after 15 years

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when DNA testing showed
that he was not the rapist

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is microwave ovens who was
exonerated often spending

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16 years in prison for matter
that he didn\'t commit.

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Allen coat case that 11 years
in prison for rape. In doing.

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Emily Ma is a lawyer who for 13 years ran

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the Innocence Project New Orleans IP
known for short. Elvis transplant

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Britain got here is a story in itself.

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I came as an undergraduate because I had
been studying international human rights law

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and we were studying really

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the criminal justice system in the United
States particularly the death penalty.

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And I didn\'t realize that there was

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a death penalty in the United States
always write very young very naive.

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And a friend of mine had just set up.

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Innocence Project. You wanted.

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She said come and work here.

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And that was about 15 years ago.

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And I\'ve remained that the Innocence
Project of New Orleans since that.

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Because the cause

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such a need for what we were doing.

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Since 2001 EP knows work has led to the
release of more than 30 people for crimes.

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They were wrongfully convicted of

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planets that we have freed or exonerated where
young black men when they were arrested.

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And they were all given trials
where the presentation of evidence

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lasted for less than a day
before they were convicted.

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Often in non unanimous jury
verdicts and sent away to

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prison for the rest of
that law and how much

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time collectively did all of these
people spend a precedent 655 years

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20 of those years belonged to Jerome
Morgan who was innocent of a murder.

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He was in prison for at
the age of 17 Morgan now

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cones and operates this barber shop in
the South seventh ward of New Orleans.

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I got wrongfully arrested October seventh.

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1993 and I eventually got a wrongfully

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convicted and sentenced to spend the rest
of my life in prison and Angola Prison.

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And so it\'s a 20 years before I was able
to get a chance to prove my innocence

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Another IP no client.

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Robert Jones was imprisoned for 23 years.

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The damage that was done to us but you

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convicted him convicted knows for
crime that we didn\'t commit.

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It\'s taken all those yields.
Our life is in rubber.

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You know isn\'t right but
you can\'t repair to.

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We lost family loves loves.

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We didn\'t bet ahead on
tau was sanity you know

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what I me but what people
don\'t realize and him is

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countries that Louisiana is ground 0 for

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all the ills that we suffer
in this way a stone it.

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And this was rooted and
everything else film from.

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For decades we have had a system that\'s

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Rules and laws on the books
that are vestiges of Jim Crow.

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I mean we can start with
unanimous jury verdicts.

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In 1898 there was a constitutional
convention where a 138 white delegates got

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together essentially trying
to figure out what they were

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going to do with this newly
freed slave population.

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When we look at the transcript
the words were the purpose of

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this convention is to promote the
supremacy of the white race.

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A product of that convention or

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not unanimous jury verdicts that were created
to make it easier to convict black folks.

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Today Louisiana only requires a chem two
verdict to convict in most felony trials.

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One of only two states in the country
to allow non unanimous jury verdicts.

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What that tended to mechanism they
only have to prove their case beyond

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a reasonable doubt because
if there are actually

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two people who have Gaussian
in the case it doesn\'t matter.

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Which is one reason why Louisiana
is home to so many inmates.

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I didn\'t think it\'s news to
anyone that Louisiana has

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the highest per capita rate of
incarceration in the world.

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We have the highest per
capita rate of people serving

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life without parole in the
United States that it has

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a history of trying to keep black people

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out of the criminal justice
system except as defendants.

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And it has a legacy of slavery and
Jim Crow that is everywhere you look

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Today most notably its prisons.

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That legacy weighs heavily on 2m
Connor Lee who was dispatched from

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the Orleans Parish jail to Dixon
Correctional Institute in Jackson Louisiana.

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Another stop in a hard life.

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I go remember bearable mom mom and
Philae was like maybe 67 years old.

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Today OCS just came snatch.

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Ocs stands for what all of his community serves
a beach so me and my younger brother eats

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But from school to school
together DDS is smashed both was.

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Did they tell you why Tim who was

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removed from a troubled home was then
taken to his new foster parents.

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For a suddenly motherless six-year-old
the adjustment was wrenching.

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Wanted that got done sort of P balls.

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There was like management you will
be staying where I took all Brennan.

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No I don\'t want us through which I
don\'t even know you owe me what

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my mama a try to force me to
call on a mommy and daddy.

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It\'s just not gonna work over night

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But he also took care of me today
give me a lot of things and covers.

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So my light beam from the farm grown-up

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struggling Franklin Louisiana where
Tim spent his first six years.

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He lived on this road and a
house that has since burnt

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down Tim and his brothers
let a hardscrabble life.

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None on our food little
money for clothes and an

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absentee father Tim to
this day has not met.

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James foster parents gave him stability.

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But at the age of 12 he began to rebel.

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From agrees is thought is slack No

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And May on a cake Lima
forcing terms on a kid

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like that to make sure you go to
school you don\'t want to school.

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Don\'t seek just from you.

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Rounded is noodle me on.

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And I come from a neighbor
who we\'d all get grounded.

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We don\'t get says says we
don\'t give well none today.

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So they sent him to a military school.

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They hoped would straighten him out.

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Now my first dado a Shou
Mai able Come on Brazil

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for shaving cream won a flu a Mamie do
push ups ahead will be my last command.

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You telling me jump Michelle
would jump on his show.

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Jumping is shall we jump out this
shell with three different people

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telling me that I got OB
MATLAB commands in there.

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A year later as Tim was about to
graduate the unexpected happened.

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The day of my graduation MOM my biological
popped up was like coming along with me.

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I\'ve been gone over the years and NOM
drone and we\'re young and adult on.

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131213 now so I don\'t know
what it\'s all about eggs.

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We don\'t have a mother\'s some bond
or more because I\'ve been gone

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distant away from you these
people to view and please.

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Because Tim\'s mother was working nights.

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He started spending more and
more time on the street.

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At 40 years old I started running whatever
crowded dues like 1920 years old.

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They like to move on to advance
for my 0s a move like a

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7080 year old and I\'m third seafood senior
x2 a soul drugs people to get what.

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Tim got into trouble when his
friends shot someone Tim was there.

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And now we\'ll pick double guy and
none of that I just was with Dell AGA

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full years of red on an
assessor its cell mass thought.

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A serious charge to be sure.

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Let the authorities were
willing to let Tim go.

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If he was willing to say
who pulled the trigger

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leads for me about salary amount and go
home but that would have been all my cat.

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It\'s because I\'m now gonna sell on Luba.

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What is right or wrong Hello
burnished Rico read or nothing.

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You here you don\'t here.

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You see you don\'t see Jim Payne
for his silence by spending

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the next four years in juvenile prison
where he graduated with his GED.

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And when I come home and mom is
still big and I\'m 13 fluency.

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I\'m not a baby anymore.

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Those are being gold seniors actually live.

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No. I\'m wrong with shoes
thinking thinking I\'m there 56

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you know prison raised me right
this really reason you own you.

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Why am I\'m like you Noah

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A meta spree of my week so I\'m just
about to get away from everybody momma.

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Everybody mother golden age in my life.

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At the age of 18 Tim said goodbye to his
mother and took off for New Orleans.

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It wasn\'t the place you see
in the picture postcards.

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Goals alone only streets
deliver from day to day.

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I\'m sleep AOL del bene house
is under the breathes.

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No it didn\'t lunch for me everything I did

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a Dilma home always in only
soda on CPU must self bill.

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But we all know that we
passed some connection

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The criminal system the shoulder
Tim went to his covenant house an

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agency serving homeless youth as it\'s assumes
case manager then we\'re simply afoot.

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And we\'re gonna leave like we
always do anyone who wants

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to pray this morning and
the circle is close.

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Anybody else out here that wants to pray I
can remember when he came to me the first

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time and he\'s just kind of look
up at me and I was like yeah

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I\'m talking about you and he comes over.

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And then we go into the office
wants to come into the program.

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We go into the office
and you have a private

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tall and kind of liked his
head as he had done a said.

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One thing you do when you talk to them mama
you gotta look with straight in the face.

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So she\'ll know just
what\'s going on with you.

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I don\'t know if you need
help with something.

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Is there something going on he\'s I know
ma\'am I\'m doing okay I just want a job.

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I just won\'t be able to
work and just get a job.

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You know I just think he has
some things going on with

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him but he wasn\'t willing
to talk about those things.

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And I don\'t remember much about
his family and background on

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his family but as far as our family and

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never had mix signals of being disrespectful
he just always literally press than a loss.

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This is folks ask us what happened to Jim.

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After he left Covenant House

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She was saddened by the news.

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And just to hear that is a hardened on
my heart that he has signaled to listen.

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And they have any family
member that be there for him.

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I can just imagine that
right now but oh my gosh

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it\'s so easy to dismiss young people.

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Like Tim counter like it is.

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I mean look at his life.

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From day one he didn\'t win.

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We gotta find people that can
understand these kids and

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what has the time sniper faults is
half the time. It\'s not their fault.

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Start out with an empty bucket at a young
age and it never good field with love.

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Asians understanding consideration respect.

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It never feels with any of that.

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It feels with hate Sri.

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Dismiss. You are nobody view all the
negative and feeds into their minds.

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There\'s been a whole life
nobody ever gave me.

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I realize I coffee not

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the the large percentage

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of people who come into our criminal
justice system have no education.

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They have no job skills

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They may have a substance abuse problem.

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If we do not deal with those issues early
on then we are essentially creating

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a criminal former Angola and may
Daniel rhabdo doesn\'t see it that way.

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You can take a 21 you black
in 21-year-old white kid.

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Same chose to saying syphillis.

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One go into would\'ve conviction.

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One will end up in a situation to

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white Qingwen situation where
you\'ll get to step on risk.

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And if he stayed cool
enough and you have no

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more but they know they\'ll make their
half a foot or no black highlighter.

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Oh step and what they
conviction and ego get

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him into the system and continue
with them through the system.

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We need not go and fool ourselves.

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You know we live in a
society where crime exist.

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But the thing is that
prostitute these guys fed

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right alright prosecute
these guys fairly and don\'t

00:28:01.579 --> 00:28:05.880
just address the crime addressed
why to crime has happened.

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This difference in philosophy
comes into sharp focus

00:28:10.204 --> 00:28:13.533
every time city council
president Jason Williams

00:28:13.534 --> 00:28:17.838
faces off against District
Attorney Leon Canada\'s arrow

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Dotted line is coming here and continuing

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with the same irresponsible
fear mongering or not.

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He had a fear monger.

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Anybody go look at the statistics on the
crime rates in the Cerda six because you

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will not turn over your
data and you actually

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ran again I\'ll write against
him and Martha what happened.

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A loss a loss to him was third in the race.

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My philosophy at that time was that
we needed to be smarter on crime.

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Putting people in jail for as many years as
you can get as a prosecutor has not proven as

00:28:51.830 --> 00:28:55.849
a crime reduction strategy or is a good
crime reduction strategy and I sit here

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any other kinda zeros zeal
sometimes exceeds his authority.

00:29:00.905 --> 00:29:04.249
In an effort to get reluctant
witnesses to come forward.

00:29:04.250 --> 00:29:09.544
He used the subpoena which looked
like the real thing. But our fake.

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What did you do that it was

00:29:14.300 --> 00:29:19.548
a practice that had been in existence
in Orleans Parish in in the state of

00:29:19.549 --> 00:29:24.214
Louisiana since 1926 we would
send them that notice to

00:29:24.215 --> 00:29:29.164
ask them to come into the office to meet
with us and talk with us about the case.

00:29:29.165 --> 00:29:32.478
Well it\'s more than ask I mean what\'s
the scare tactic essentially to

00:29:32.479 --> 00:29:36.094
get people in that you couldn\'t figure
out any other way to get them in.

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We have now modified our practices and
we have not used it for now over a year

00:29:42.364 --> 00:29:48.229
Kinda zeros fall back Material witness
warrant issued by a judge that

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authorized the DA\'s office
to jail witnesses who won\'t

00:29:51.590 --> 00:29:55.099
go operate even if they
were victims of rape.

00:29:55.100 --> 00:29:59.329
If I have to put a victim
of a crime in jail for

00:29:59.330 --> 00:30:03.978
eight days in order to keep the rapist
and that\'s what the charge was in

00:30:03.979 --> 00:30:08.959
order to keep the rapist off of
out of on off of the streets for

00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:11.718
a period of years and to prevent him from

00:30:11.719 --> 00:30:15.469
raping or harming someone
else I\'m going to do that.

00:30:15.470 --> 00:30:17.659
Gamma 0 is convinced that

00:30:17.660 --> 00:30:22.173
his unyielding approach to criminal
justice is sending a message

00:30:22.174 --> 00:30:29.029
In the case of Cori lab who faced imprisonment
for possessing half an ounce of marijuana.

00:30:29.030 --> 00:30:34.534
I was on my way home with a bag of
marijuana that I was going to smoke.

00:30:34.535 --> 00:30:39.859
And we got pulled over and I got arrested.

00:30:39.860 --> 00:30:44.614
And I want to do half an ounce f unknowns.

00:30:44.615 --> 00:30:48.394
Because this was Cory\'s
third marijuana offense.

00:30:48.395 --> 00:30:52.564
The law at the time made
long sentences possible.

00:30:52.565 --> 00:30:58.639
You told me that even if it was
like you would have thought you

00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:04.669
wanted the trial definitely my little
girl was born while I was incarcerated.

00:31:04.670 --> 00:31:07.039
And 20 years she would
have been 20 years old.

00:31:07.040 --> 00:31:11.659
So what or I have you know I mean
it was just it was killing me.

00:31:11.660 --> 00:31:15.960
And so I just said it\'s all or nothing.

00:31:16.300 --> 00:31:20.974
Cory took the gamble
went to trial and lost.

00:31:20.975 --> 00:31:22.608
But because of something called

00:31:22.609 --> 00:31:26.688
the habitual offenders statute
which increases the harshness of

00:31:26.689 --> 00:31:29.718
sentencing for those with
a prior conviction he

00:31:29.719 --> 00:31:34.159
found himself facing up
to 40 years in prison.

00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:39.199
Can you explain to our audience what the

00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:44.104
habitual offender statute as it\'s also
known I think as the multiple bill.

00:31:44.105 --> 00:31:50.959
Yes what does that what does that do that
allows the district attorney to file

00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:55.128
additional charges against
someone if he or she has

00:31:55.129 --> 00:32:00.259
previous felony convictions
within a set period of time.

00:32:00.260 --> 00:32:05.599
And Corey had been convicted of two
other drug possession charges.

00:32:05.600 --> 00:32:11.809
I got pulled over one time I had a pain pin
them up on a pole over different time.

00:32:11.810 --> 00:32:15.199
Ahead two hits LSD I was
going to a concert.

00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:20.374
So the DA filed a multiple bill
and Corey got the 20 years.

00:32:20.375 --> 00:32:24.139
He\'d been dreading. Never
anytime has a state.

00:32:24.140 --> 00:32:26.599
I\'ve offered me a drug
rehabilitation program

00:32:26.600 --> 00:32:29.419
no type badhealth We\'re so I\'ll
feel like because I don\'t have

00:32:29.420 --> 00:32:36.889
the money to hire a $10 thousand lower
that would get me these programs.

00:32:36.890 --> 00:32:40.200
I felt like they weren\'t trying to help me.

00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:46.309
In 2015 Louisiana dramatically
reduced sentences for marijuana.

00:32:46.310 --> 00:32:50.794
With 5.5 years already served
kinda Xero decided that

00:32:50.795 --> 00:32:55.999
Corey had rehabilitated himself and
supported his release from prison.

00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:00.540
It is now reunited with his daughter.

00:33:00.940 --> 00:33:03.679
And I got a good job.

00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:06.259
I\'m saving up money I\'ve
purchased a vehicle.

00:33:06.260 --> 00:33:12.079
I was able to give a nice Christmas
a ninth birthday bag a little bit.

00:33:12.080 --> 00:33:20.080
Knowing all I can to be there for to let him
know that I love doing pretty good so far.

00:33:23.020 --> 00:33:27.780
So is the case for Tim
counter Lee\'s innocence.

00:33:28.060 --> 00:33:33.259
Remember those petty camp passengers
who were certain that Tim rob them.

00:33:33.260 --> 00:33:39.378
When investigator David Kim spoke to
them their credibility took a hit

00:33:39.379 --> 00:33:46.399
One of the passengers who was actually
attacked set that there were five attackers.

00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:51.889
One of his friends another passenger
in the petty cabs at that there were

00:33:51.890 --> 00:33:54.724
exactly two people and only two people

00:33:54.725 --> 00:33:59.134
the petty cab driver was the only person
to say that there were three people.

00:33:59.135 --> 00:34:03.348
Did you ask them about what
they were wearing yes one of

00:34:03.349 --> 00:34:09.499
the witnesses he saw two perpetrators
wearing T-shirts and shorts.

00:34:09.500 --> 00:34:13.429
The one who was actually attacked
and injured during the incident.

00:34:13.430 --> 00:34:16.534
He said both of them were wearing pants.

00:34:16.535 --> 00:34:18.949
Then there was more

00:34:18.950 --> 00:34:21.724
petty cab driver Kony shuffling.

00:34:21.725 --> 00:34:24.634
I wanted to ask you about the passengers.

00:34:24.635 --> 00:34:27.814
You\'d think they were sober. No no.

00:34:27.815 --> 00:34:31.759
They weren\'t unusually drawn for the French
Quarter but they were definitely not.

00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:33.559
There were definitely not silver.

00:34:33.560 --> 00:34:40.249
Was there evidence surprisingly there
was the investigator had discovered

00:34:40.250 --> 00:34:45.229
this amazing informative selfie video

00:34:45.230 --> 00:34:50.044
of these guys and an intoxicated state
moments before this armed robbery happened.

00:34:50.045 --> 00:34:54.318
And that was so key because I thought
it\'d be important for our jury to

00:34:54.319 --> 00:35:00.029
understand that these individuals
intoxication led to Tim\'s Miss identification

00:35:11.170 --> 00:35:16.639
I\'m pretty sure everybody wanted a room
gold pretty low pretty much look the same.

00:35:16.640 --> 00:35:17.809
You have all of them black.

00:35:17.810 --> 00:35:20.164
So we I\'m saying me bid a black individual.

00:35:20.165 --> 00:35:25.399
Yeah I\'m say some Caucasian
victims bear robbed

00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:27.258
like nope I\'m pretty sure if you put

00:35:27.259 --> 00:35:30.649
any light same black people in
alarm will point went into mom.

00:35:30.650 --> 00:35:36.619
See he did. But how about Tony
shifts that he had nothing

00:35:36.620 --> 00:35:39.559
to drink that night and
he stands by his idea of

00:35:39.560 --> 00:35:43.289
Connally who he saw in
the show-up procedure

00:35:43.290 --> 00:35:48.354
It was him who was his face definitely
honored percent. No doubt in my mind.

00:35:48.355 --> 00:35:52.628
We should think to ourselves
that if Tim\'s face were put in

00:35:52.629 --> 00:35:55.418
a six person photographic lineup would

00:35:55.419 --> 00:35:59.604
the petty cab driver still be able to
pick out two that\'s not what happened.

00:35:59.605 --> 00:36:02.408
What happened was a suggested
procedure that only

00:36:02.409 --> 00:36:05.588
gave this petty cab driver one
option and that option wasn\'t

00:36:05.589 --> 00:36:08.709
handcuffs that option was
standing next to a police vehicle

00:36:08.710 --> 00:36:12.444
that option was sitting next to a
police officer with that badge net gun.

00:36:12.445 --> 00:36:15.159
And that\'s the only option
that he chose and he chose it.

00:36:15.160 --> 00:36:19.989
And the point is we all should be terrified
that someone\'s liberty can be taken

00:36:19.990 --> 00:36:23.079
away based on an intoxicated identification

00:36:23.080 --> 00:36:26.144
based on a suggestive
identification preach procedure

00:36:26.145 --> 00:36:28.008
And based on a lack of

00:36:28.009 --> 00:36:32.884
evidence bank and bottom now will have a
case and I\'ll be Tolkien tomatoes Ernie.

00:36:32.885 --> 00:36:35.659
You really feel like you know
he does some weak approve.

00:36:35.660 --> 00:36:39.119
We beat this soul Amalfi.

00:36:39.120 --> 00:36:46.383
Sas will motivates me every day on my
ma\'am looking for to Bemis case every day

00:36:46.384 --> 00:36:52.129
Convinced of his clients innocence will
Snowden chose an unusual strategy.

00:36:52.130 --> 00:36:58.474
Get the prosecution to drop Tim\'s case
by giving them that damning video.

00:36:58.475 --> 00:37:01.669
The prosecutors in know
that does video existed.

00:37:01.670 --> 00:37:05.568
And I would have loved to play
this during the trial and

00:37:05.569 --> 00:37:07.939
confirming that it was after they are

00:37:07.940 --> 00:37:10.819
seen in this intoxicated state
that they identified Tim.

00:37:10.820 --> 00:37:13.609
And I said listen your
identification is bogus.

00:37:13.610 --> 00:37:17.479
And I am going to give you
this video because I think

00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:21.829
you\'re trying to imprisonment and
innocent person didn\'t work it didn\'t.

00:37:21.830 --> 00:37:25.384
They didn\'t come back with a dismissal.

00:37:25.385 --> 00:37:28.308
And I thought well I\'ve
already demonstrated them

00:37:28.309 --> 00:37:31.684
The weaknesses that they have
in the case against him.

00:37:31.685 --> 00:37:35.884
And if they want to embrace the weaknesses
and still go forward with the trial.

00:37:35.885 --> 00:37:39.228
And then we\'re going to suit up
and go who\'s ready to go and no

00:37:39.229 --> 00:37:43.264
doubt it will ever since I first met
them like everything he\'s seen.

00:37:43.265 --> 00:37:45.618
Hugo rule would it because
I know you now gone

00:37:45.619 --> 00:37:47.929
leave me in a rolling
direction but will also

00:37:47.930 --> 00:37:52.684
told me that he\'s willing to go to
trial but TCS Your Life and listening.

00:37:52.685 --> 00:37:55.249
I think I go. When is
what he\'s up to you at

00:37:55.250 --> 00:37:57.978
the end of the day do you want to go
to trial or do you want to settle

00:37:57.979 --> 00:38:03.078
for disk if he was in fact
innocent then the proper thing

00:38:03.079 --> 00:38:05.464
for him to do is to go to trial.

00:38:05.465 --> 00:38:10.458
His lawyer in all fairness has
an ethical responsibility

00:38:10.459 --> 00:38:14.028
He believes his client
is innocent then he has

00:38:14.029 --> 00:38:20.119
an ethical responsibility to go forward
with the case and give his best efforts.

00:38:20.120 --> 00:38:23.989
It\'s incorrect improper for a lawyer to get

00:38:23.990 --> 00:38:29.299
up and plead a client guilty that
he believes didn\'t do the crime.

00:38:29.300 --> 00:38:37.300
The suggestion that if he was innocent
then he should have just gone to trial.

00:38:38.225 --> 00:38:44.553
Stands in the face of
the nameless folks that

00:38:44.554 --> 00:38:47.419
are buried in Angola State Penitentiary

00:38:47.420 --> 00:38:51.004
right now who did not commit the
crime that they\'re therefore.

00:38:51.005 --> 00:38:52.819
People generally

00:38:52.820 --> 00:38:56.239
Believe that being innocent and proving

00:38:56.240 --> 00:39:00.514
it is the key to getting out of prison.
Or they correct.

00:39:00.515 --> 00:39:05.898
You\'re smiling I\'m smiling
because it is so hard once

00:39:05.899 --> 00:39:10.909
you are convicted to prove
your innocence the process of

00:39:10.910 --> 00:39:13.383
gathering evidence to prove that you are

00:39:13.384 --> 00:39:16.699
innocent is more than most
people will ever be able to

00:39:16.700 --> 00:39:19.639
do most innocent people will die in prison

00:39:19.640 --> 00:39:22.759
or serve out their sentences without
ever having cleared that name.

00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:25.140
There\'s no question of that.

00:39:25.210 --> 00:39:28.924
That was almost Gilbert Jones\'s fate.

00:39:28.925 --> 00:39:34.653
Emily mall and they\'ve no labored for
14 years to free him from present

00:39:34.654 --> 00:39:36.469
Well the James was arrested in

00:39:36.470 --> 00:39:41.464
1972 Fern rape and abduction of a
nurse from a hospital parking lot.

00:39:41.465 --> 00:39:44.689
Four months later he was placed in a lineup

00:39:44.690 --> 00:39:48.139
at the police station and the
victim the nurse who had

00:39:48.140 --> 00:39:55.459
been abducted and raped identified wheel but
James but said that she was not a 100% set.

00:39:55.460 --> 00:39:58.290
Nevertheless he was convicted.

00:39:58.420 --> 00:40:01.639
He went to prison for the rest of his life.

00:40:01.640 --> 00:40:05.374
And we ultimately stumbled on
a small newspaper clipping

00:40:05.375 --> 00:40:09.348
from a newspaper in 1973 that
documented another woman

00:40:09.349 --> 00:40:11.749
being kidnapped abducted from

00:40:11.750 --> 00:40:13.263
a hospital parking lot

00:40:13.264 --> 00:40:17.418
about three weeks off to the crime
for which robot James was convicted

00:40:17.419 --> 00:40:23.419
After about five more years we eventually
managed to get the law enforcement

00:40:23.420 --> 00:40:26.389
reports on that crime which
showed that it had been

00:40:26.390 --> 00:40:29.914
committed by a serial rapist
named Arnold Ray and Connor.

00:40:29.915 --> 00:40:33.603
Who exactly match the description

00:40:33.604 --> 00:40:37.938
of the perpetrator the victim and
well but James case at initially

00:40:37.939 --> 00:40:41.464
described after we presented
the evidence to the judge

00:40:41.465 --> 00:40:46.950
he promptly and unequivocally
reversed orbits conviction.

00:40:48.430 --> 00:40:54.318
Emily Ma is now on our way to a courthouse
in Baton Rouge where she must persuade

00:40:54.319 --> 00:41:00.123
that judge to release Wilbur Jones from
person where the state wants to keep him

00:41:00.124 --> 00:41:03.978
Emily crafts or closing
argument knowing that after

00:41:03.979 --> 00:41:10.219
almost half a century behind bars the
stakes for Jones are unusually high.

00:41:10.220 --> 00:41:14.839
Wrongful convictions already cause will
the chances spent 45 years and ten years

00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:19.219
in prison here on a night me and justice
and will change his conviction.

00:41:19.220 --> 00:41:21.318
And today we\'re asking
you all to meet me at

00:41:21.319 --> 00:41:25.680
the human tragedy in justice
and releasable but James.

00:41:26.080 --> 00:41:29.509
Moss words kept their target.

00:41:29.510 --> 00:41:33.094
The judge rules that will Albert
Jones can be released on bail.

00:41:33.095 --> 00:41:39.019
The next day outside Pope has become
actuality for Wilbur\'s family.

00:41:39.020 --> 00:41:41.659
We didn\'t get a chance
to talk to them not yet

00:41:41.660 --> 00:41:46.380
In the morning they go.

00:41:47.170 --> 00:41:50.884
Wonderful They were great.

00:41:50.885 --> 00:41:58.885
These years yeah. I mean it
takes it takes a long time.

00:41:59.450 --> 00:42:03.180
Sometimes for courts to recognize a wrong.

00:42:04.180 --> 00:42:08.824
Obviously still incredibly glad.

00:42:08.825 --> 00:42:13.759
But the decision in this case we\'re incredibly
glad that will that will be home tomorrow.

00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:18.870
After 45 years our tagline
of wrongful imprisonment.

00:42:20.200 --> 00:42:23.944
He convinced door with no evidence

00:42:23.945 --> 00:42:28.309
Bay will say I don\'t know
give it as da right in

00:42:28.310 --> 00:42:32.853
a naughty communal crime money no
hadn\'t urbanist cuda trout get down

00:42:32.854 --> 00:42:38.479
80 years ice then it\'s upping
the ante even more for Jim

00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:42.109
a prior breaking and entering
conviction for which he was put on

00:42:42.110 --> 00:42:46.114
probation that made Tim
subject to the multiple Bill.

00:42:46.115 --> 00:42:53.779
Meaning if he went to trial and lost he
could face 49.5 to a 198 years in prison.

00:42:53.780 --> 00:42:59.778
Without the possibility of parole
Leon Kennedy 0 uses the mobile bill

00:42:59.779 --> 00:43:03.169
More than any other DA in Louisiana.

00:43:03.170 --> 00:43:06.948
I think if you look at the
records of my some of

00:43:06.949 --> 00:43:08.329
my predecessors would have used

00:43:08.330 --> 00:43:11.749
some multiple Bill 100% of the
time in felony cases when it

00:43:11.750 --> 00:43:14.298
was when they were eligible
and could do so well in

00:43:14.299 --> 00:43:17.359
fact I believe the record of the
statistics will indicate that

00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:20.298
we use the multiple Bill
I think last year and in

00:43:20.299 --> 00:43:25.804
20162017 I think we used at
less than 19% of the cases.

00:43:25.805 --> 00:43:29.494
Jason Williams says
that\'s beside the point.

00:43:29.495 --> 00:43:34.459
He may only file a multiple bill
a small percentage of times

00:43:34.460 --> 00:43:39.694
but he is using it as a threat
during the entire life of the case.

00:43:39.695 --> 00:43:41.928
From arraignment

00:43:41.929 --> 00:43:44.958
To play whether or not he actually has

00:43:44.959 --> 00:43:47.809
to fall it depends on whether or
not someone takes a deal or not.

00:43:47.810 --> 00:43:50.704
And let me say this it\'s
not against the law.

00:43:50.705 --> 00:43:53.494
I\'m not suggesting that
he\'s breaking the law.

00:43:53.495 --> 00:43:59.764
I think it is an abusive use of
all of the power that he has.

00:43:59.765 --> 00:44:03.078
Everybody knows that gets hanging over you

00:44:03.079 --> 00:44:06.049
that it is always a possibility
that it can be used.

00:44:06.050 --> 00:44:12.558
It is a tool that is available to us and I
will use it in those cases where I think it is

00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:17.659
appropriate to Connelly just would mean

00:44:17.660 --> 00:44:19.879
accepting the plea bargain channel zeros

00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:24.139
assistant DAs were offering
seven years reduced to five

00:44:24.140 --> 00:44:28.140
because of time that Tim
had already served.

00:44:28.930 --> 00:44:31.549
That\'s a hell of a risk.

00:44:31.550 --> 00:44:37.084
That\'s a hell of a risk for it
for a person to take five or 50.

00:44:37.085 --> 00:44:45.085
And an prosecutors love to throw around
numbers as if we\'re at Harrah\'s casino.

00:44:46.145 --> 00:44:51.409
But one year of your life as
a law of town let alone 50.

00:44:51.410 --> 00:44:58.024
So the idea that it\'s there\'s nothing
cavalier about that decision.

00:44:58.025 --> 00:45:01.219
I could take the easy really easy. We hope.

00:45:01.220 --> 00:45:04.459
They lived a few years.

00:45:04.460 --> 00:45:08.299
Taken a few units are
riskier my life gambling.

00:45:08.300 --> 00:45:10.684
I\'d be gone for the rest of my life.

00:45:10.685 --> 00:45:12.214
That\'s light come home.

00:45:12.215 --> 00:45:15.544
If all I miss tissue mete
out nobody in Buddha\'s.

00:45:15.545 --> 00:45:17.599
May or may not get to go to trial.

00:45:17.600 --> 00:45:18.829
I know I\'ve been Buddhas.

00:45:18.830 --> 00:45:23.599
It\'s a possibility is to 60-40
chance not a 50-50 60-40 chance.

00:45:23.600 --> 00:45:30.784
I win or lose I would never go home
all at the CIA and get convicted.

00:45:30.785 --> 00:45:35.159
Plead guilty such solids I didn\'t
do and still get fucked old when

00:45:35.160 --> 00:45:40.260
only a few years but go back
home as whole. As whole

00:45:43.150 --> 00:45:47.479
In the end Tim decided the
gamble was too great.

00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:50.719
Knowing that if he was found
guilty and the multiple bill was

00:45:50.720 --> 00:45:56.550
filed he\'d be at least 70 years old
before being released from prison.

00:45:57.430 --> 00:46:03.949
He took the play. You\'ve
had a very tough life

00:46:03.950 --> 00:46:11.400
and prison is supposed to.

00:46:12.040 --> 00:46:16.954
I guess do something so that when you
get out you can handle yourself better.

00:46:16.955 --> 00:46:19.200
You think it works like that.

00:46:20.650 --> 00:46:25.394
I\'m not I mean well not
prison makes me angry

00:46:25.395 --> 00:46:33.264
It makes me angry to shoot the ball to me
and I\'ll be thinking about is revised.

00:46:33.265 --> 00:46:35.709
Tim\'s former case managers.

00:46:35.710 --> 00:46:40.809
Cynthia foot\'s says Tim\'s reaction
shouldn\'t surprise anyone.

00:46:40.810 --> 00:46:43.929
You\'d like a tiger in a
cage and can\'t get out.

00:46:43.930 --> 00:46:47.079
There\'s no way out of this
and do the seven years.

00:46:47.080 --> 00:46:52.659
Take the bullshit that you gotta be mistreated
in this place had been mistreated as Chow.

00:46:52.660 --> 00:46:54.909
You\'ve been mistreated in
the foster care system.

00:46:54.910 --> 00:46:58.988
You mistreated out on the street
you have missed understood here is

00:46:58.989 --> 00:47:04.089
a tiger in a cage allowed
at any point in time.

00:47:04.090 --> 00:47:08.324
If it just person decide out
of control and hurt someone

00:47:08.325 --> 00:47:15.570
Yeah Chris and me angry I\'ll know
ab and leave out is wrong shoe.

00:47:19.810 --> 00:47:23.253
Kim has had several disciplinary incidents

00:47:23.254 --> 00:47:26.058
since he\'s been in prison
and has spent months in

00:47:26.059 --> 00:47:33.004
a place called the blocks small cell isolating
him from the rest of the prison population

00:47:33.005 --> 00:47:36.634
It will be 29 when he\'s due for release.

00:47:36.635 --> 00:47:41.400
Having been incarcerated
almost half his life.

00:47:44.710 --> 00:47:50.179
Stress dismal goals ONE I\'m
in jail for sudden mind do.

00:47:50.180 --> 00:47:53.449
But I\'m seeing Muslim Sikh months.

00:47:53.450 --> 00:47:56.730
For somebody Do.

00:47:57.070 --> 00:48:02.824
They already think animals may
Ellen look Emiliano Yeoman BY

00:48:02.825 --> 00:48:08.094
a don\'t wanna blogs now in chains like
these you would anomalous formulae.

00:48:08.095 --> 00:48:15.359
This is how I want to
leave you with a force

00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:20.614
I had a more bare my best friends.

00:48:20.615 --> 00:48:23.190
I just want to these forms.

00:48:23.530 --> 00:48:26.839
Best friend Nick from here
on my best for infinite.

00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:33.000
Well. Though what\'s happening.

00:48:45.610 --> 00:48:53.610
At that happen. Take your time.

00:48:58.870 --> 00:49:03.120
No newspaper.

00:49:03.430 --> 00:49:08.490
In the news people this was Sunday.

00:49:09.010 --> 00:49:11.489
Momma like

00:49:24.790 --> 00:49:26.419
Tim currently

00:49:26.420 --> 00:49:28.189
story is not a unique way.

00:49:28.190 --> 00:49:33.378
Over the years I\'ve known to many young
men just like him born into poverty

00:49:33.379 --> 00:49:35.749
discarded by society caught up in

00:49:35.750 --> 00:49:39.540
the criminal justice system
designed to keep them out of sight.

00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:45.199
If we do not do better so
that it\'s not only the

00:49:45.200 --> 00:49:50.370
incarcerated that\'ll continue to
pay the price. It\'s all of us.

00:50:20.620 --> 00:50:22.920
Okay.

00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:15.270
Okay