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Speaker 2: Everybody, this is Andrew Gillham, and first I want to

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Speaker 2: give every one of you who took the time to

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Speaker 2: listen to parts one and two of my testimony a

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Speaker 2: big thank you for giving my voice an ear. This

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Speaker 2: testimony is about basically what my life was and has

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Speaker 2: been since the conclusion of the gubernatorial election in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and eighteen, and a roller coaster would be one

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Speaker 2: way to describe things. Everything from the aftermath of of course,

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Speaker 2: the race and what followed more immediately, the Miami incident

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Speaker 2: that captured everybody's attention, imagination and every gossiper east west,

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Speaker 2: north south, the indictment of myself and a colleague, and

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Speaker 2: the trial and then the conclusion of that trial. The

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Speaker 2: first one. If you haven't heard it or would like

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Speaker 2: to go back and refresh your memory, you'll find it

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Speaker 2: at the end of our regular weekly cast. The episode

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Speaker 2: is titled Miami a No Sanctuary City. Part two will

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Speaker 2: be at the end of the episode titled Faded None

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Speaker 2: of These Candidates, and obviously part three right here this

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Speaker 2: mini pod, I hope you learn you get to listen

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Speaker 2: and that it piques your interests in getting more deeply

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Speaker 2: involved in criminal justice reform. We walk into the courtroom.

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Speaker 2: When the doors come open, I hear an audible gasp

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Speaker 2: in the room and I look around because I'm surveying

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Speaker 2: one to make sure my family did not show up

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Speaker 2: and they had snuck in there. But as I surveyed

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Speaker 2: the room, there's journalists everywhere, journalists in the jury box

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Speaker 2: and the stand, their people and whatnot. It is a

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Speaker 2: real spectacle. But there the gas was that they noticed

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Speaker 2: as I walked in that I was sort of hobbling

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Speaker 2: in and I think they were seeing that I was

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Speaker 2: chained in this in this way, and my pastor, I

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Speaker 2: see him sort of stand up and look over and

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Speaker 2: I see him starting to say some words audibly, but

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what he's saying, but I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 2: he was complaining about, well, why is he this way?

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Speaker 2: And the only thought I had as I walked was,

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Speaker 2: thank you Jesus. There are no cameras. No one will

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Speaker 2: ever see me this way. They can describe it, but

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Speaker 2: my kids won't ever see these chains. That was the

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Speaker 2: biggest source of embarrassment for me, because I remember back

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Speaker 2: to that story of me telling you all that I

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Speaker 2: never wanted to make my mom cry for me getting

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Speaker 2: in trouble. That's all I could think of was her

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Speaker 2: seeing me. So they weren't there. And we go through

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Speaker 2: the proceedings and the judge says, this is the United

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Speaker 2: States of America versus Andrew Gill never an institution that

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Speaker 2: I believed in, like I believed in nothing else. A

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Speaker 2: government that I was in service to for all of

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Speaker 2: my life was now against me, and I didn't understand

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Speaker 2: it for the life of me. And I read, I

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Speaker 2: heard they read the indictment out loud. I got a

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Speaker 2: see myself reflected in it. I didn't know what this

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Speaker 2: garbage was that they decided to call charge. This was

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Speaker 2: made up mess out of whole cloth. Fast forward. I'm

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Speaker 2: glad to be validated by that fact, by the decision

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Speaker 2: of the jury and everything that they have said since

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Speaker 2: the case. But I will tell you, I hear those

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Speaker 2: words will humble you to your knees. But to hear

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Speaker 2: them as a working agent for them, A believer, tried

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Speaker 2: and true, a constitutionalist, who made those words of the

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Speaker 2: Declaration of Independence in every article of that Constitution at

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Speaker 2: its founding, applied to me, even though it wasn't written

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Speaker 2: just pure hell, y'all, you know it. We all had

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Speaker 2: I had chosen to focus exclusively on preparing myself for

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Speaker 2: But but to sit there and to hear these FBI agents,

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Speaker 2: And watching them on the standards they were questioned and

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Speaker 2: if you bringing money to invest in south Side, where

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Speaker 2: not a friendship. But then they start to stay tell

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Speaker 2: We had to get to a place where we stopped

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Speaker 2: And they use someone who was very close to me

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Speaker 2: What they're very clear about is they expect me to

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Speaker 2: the spirit of being hunted, I come to realize that

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Speaker 2: say that I was living beyond my means because I

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Speaker 2: told this jury that I was living beyond my means

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Speaker 2: It was completely and wholly the story that they made

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Speaker 2: he says, where's the What did he do? What did?

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Speaker 2: He'd say, tell me the lie? Because because everything we've

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Speaker 2: They're sitting in prisons not because they're guilty, but because

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Speaker 2: First and foremost, I want to live for my wife

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