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Speaker 1: one of whom was Tyree Wallace. Despite a wide age

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Speaker 1: gap between Tyree and his co defendants, as well as

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Speaker 1: multiple false testimonies exposed that trial, Tyree was sentenced to

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Speaker 1: life without parole. But this is wrongful conviction. Wrongful conviction

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Speaker 1: has always gave voice to innocent people in prison, and

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Speaker 1: what you've done to help the cause, even if it's

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Speaker 1: something as simple as telling a friend or sharing on

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Speaker 1: future episode call us eight three three two oh seven

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Speaker 1: four six sixty six. Welcome back to Ronfuel Conviction, where

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Speaker 1: another Philadelphia case has come to our attention, in which

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Speaker 1: our guest, Tyree Wallace, was not tied to the October

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven crime scene. But when you're prosecuted for

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Speaker 1: felony murder in the second degree, you don't have to be.

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Speaker 1: And we'll look get into what that means in a minute,

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Speaker 1: But first let me introduce Tyree, who's joining us from

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Speaker 1: a Pennsylvania correctional facility, a place he doesn't belong in.

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Speaker 1: He never belonged there. But Tyree, thank you for calling in.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome, thank you for doing and.

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Speaker 1: Here with us to help share this harrowing story. His attorney,

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Speaker 1: David Perry, thanks for having me so, Tyree, you grew

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Speaker 1: up in Philadelphia in the eighties and nineties.

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Speaker 3: Right, yes, I did. I was born at Children's Hospital.

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Speaker 3: My mother lived on Cleveland Street in South Philadelphia, but

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Speaker 3: she had an alcohol addiction, and as a result of that,

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Speaker 3: I bounced back and forth between she my father, sometimes

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Speaker 3: it was starting to go downhill a little bit based

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Speaker 4: What you had at that time is a war on drugs,

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Speaker 4: aggressive policing, fear in the community about recidivism, some headline

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Speaker 4: crime in the city of Philadelphia in the late nineties,

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Speaker 1: And these are familiar touchdowns for the crack epidemic era

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Speaker 1: and its aftermath all throughout this country, with most citizens

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Speaker 1: just barely surviving both the crime that emanated from this

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Speaker 1: and the communities pulled through on the strength of folks

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Speaker 1: like the victim in this case, mister John Sukang Rest

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Speaker 1: in peace.

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Speaker 3: He was just the giant in our community. He ran

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Speaker 3: the Salt and Peperative Deli on Seventeenth in Ellsworth and

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Speaker 3: most of the other Korean American establishments in South Philly.

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Speaker 3: They normally only hired other people from the Korean American community,

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Speaker 2: In South Philly.

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Speaker 3: The store had a familiar feel as a result of

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Speaker 1: But not everyone is a pillar of the community, like

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Speaker 4: At that time of night, there is mister Kang working there,

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Speaker 4: Levan Griffin spoke with detectives soon after this. Griffin could

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Speaker 1: We're really not sure where they got that information, considering

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Speaker 1: their motives other than the significant pressure on them to

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Speaker 3: It was the absolute talk of the neighborhood, and I

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Speaker 3: who would do this to mister King?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: The Korean American community was in an uproar, and rightfully so,

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Speaker 3: they were demanding results. The officer, Charles Boyle and others

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Speaker 3: and my cads decided that we're going to get a conviction.

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Speaker 1: So the police began canvassing the neighborhood and putting pressure

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Speaker 1: on a number of neighborhood kids. Raheem Shackelford, Matthew Corporu,

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Speaker 3: So I was from a block that was called nineteenth

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Speaker 3: These we just did not interact.

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Speaker 1: But there was one source from Tyree's social circle that

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Speaker 1: helped the police link him with Raheem Shackelford and Matthew Corporal.

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Speaker 3: An associate of mine at the time, Brian Brooks had

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Speaker 3: On one occasion at Tracy Dreaton's house, I was introduced

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Speaker 1: And the narrative eventually became Tyree and Brian attended a

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Speaker 4: ricochet off of each other. They knew Brian Brooks was

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Speaker 4: a bad actor because he had about four other robberies.

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Speaker 1: Interestingly, while under investigation for those robberies, Brian Brooks was

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Speaker 1: arrested just hours before this robbery homicide for an unrelated charge,

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Speaker 4: At four point fifty pm he's in custody and they're

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Speaker 4: interviewing him about the list of crimes. The murder takes

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Speaker 4: I'm aware that something's going to go down tonight, So

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Speaker 4: there's no foreshadowing by Brian Brooks. In December, when Brian

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Speaker 4: nothing about the murder. Brian Brooks's December and police statement

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Speaker 4: is never written down. It's only ever talked about. But

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Speaker 4: how do we know that it occurred? At least we

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Speaker 4: you're here to talk to us on your own free will. Yes,

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Speaker 4: it's about the murder of John King. Well, we interviewed

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Speaker 4: you in December. You said you didn't know anything about it, right, Yes,

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Speaker 4: that was a lie, right, Yes, why are you coming

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Speaker 4: now to tell us what you know, Well, because there's

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Speaker 4: a rumor going around that me and my brother had

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Speaker 4: the police knew that couldn't possibly have been plausible because

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Speaker 4: they could have easily said, well, Brian, of course you

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Speaker 4: had nothing to do with it. You were in custody.

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Speaker 1: So even his alleged motive to come forward was incredible.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Brooks had a much more credible motive for

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Speaker 3: Brian Brooks was a court for a whole host of

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Speaker 3: arm robberies. Each arm robbery had assault and we shortages

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Speaker 3: in multiple different cases that he just didn't have knowledge about.

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Speaker 3: He was just willing to say whatever needed to be

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Speaker 4: Brian Brooks would go into excruciating detail about the planning

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Speaker 4: of the murder. On the day before the murder that

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Speaker 4: Tyree and others came by James Davis's house. They're talking

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Speaker 4: Brian is being questioned in custody, ostensibly about a variety

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Speaker 4: I've got something for you. There's something going down tonight.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't do that. Fast forward. Now it's February, and

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Speaker 4: not only does he know everything, he knew it the

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Speaker 1: Now, how is that? That's a good question now. By

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Speaker 1: this time, James Davis also made a statement about them

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Speaker 1: where he allegedly declined an invitation from Tyree Wallace and

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Speaker 1: Raheem Shackleford to participate, that Matthew Corporal and Raheem Shackleford

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Speaker 1: showed him a soft off shotgun shortly before the crime,

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Speaker 1: and that Shackleford told him that they got one hundred

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Speaker 1: the police went to Lvan Griffin with a photo array

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Speaker 1: featuring Tyree, Corporal and Shackleford.

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Speaker 4: And Lavan Griffin had his own issues and would later

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Speaker 4: say that he was basically harassed by the police, and

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Speaker 4: his testimony would later be a very weak and loose

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Speaker 4: attempt to identify assailants. It was some loose reference to

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Speaker 4: having a similar bust or a similar body because Levanne

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Speaker 4: Griffin didn't see the shooting.

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Speaker 1: All of this together was enough to charge Tyree Wallace,

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Speaker 1: Matthew Corporal, and Raheem Shackleford with conspiracy to commit robbery

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Speaker 1: February twentieth, nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I was at my father's house in the phone ring.

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Speaker 3: My father answered the phone upstairs. The ass was Tyrie there,

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Speaker 2: I get arrested once I get there.

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Speaker 3: I was being interviewed by Detective Charles Boyle, and again

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Speaker 3: In the commission of a felony, if anybody has killed,

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Speaker 3: everybody involved in that conspiracy receives a life sentence. So

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Speaker 2: Going to look like.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna spend the next two years at CFCF then

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Speaker 4: Rahim Shaka Ford says that when he goes into a

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Speaker 1: And as Tyree said earlier, he had only met Matthew

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Speaker 3: So I did have a quarter pointed attorney, Daniel Green,

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Speaker 3: Evan Luiz, who was the discrease fired eighty A in

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Speaker 2: So the attorney has two days to learn his keys.

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Speaker 1: So they stuck with Daniel Green, and it appears that

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Speaker 4: The narrative in the theory of the crime is that

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Speaker 4: shackle Ford and Tyree Wallace accost Kang, shoot him take

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Speaker 1: Remember, the state's narrative was that the assailants had entered

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Speaker 1: In addition, he had seen only one shooter, who he

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Speaker 1: described as short, chubby, and dark skinned. Tyree is six',

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Speaker 1: too slim and light. Skinned Yet griffin still Id shackelford And,

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Speaker 1: tyree So tyree's lawyer was able to Impeach griffin on Cross.

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Speaker 3: He read the description, though and as you pointed, OUT

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Speaker 3: Color Danny green Asked Levan griffin, directly are you saying

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Speaker 1: Lesser, Dan you Had Matthew, corporu who claimed to be a,

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Speaker 3: Record they Put Charles boyle on the stain who read

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Speaker 3: his statement into, evidence where he would, say me and

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Speaker 3: two guys planned to do this. Robbery so it's three

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Speaker 1: Validity and even Though tyree And shackle for his names

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Speaker 1: were carefully left, Out levang had made his. Identification, however

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Speaker 5: KING i didn't realize that THE da wasn't even trying

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Speaker 1: Standard so they heard testimony about The october twenty sixth planning,

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Speaker 4: Godfrey his, MOTHER i think lied on the stand about

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Speaker 1: Say James davis said that at the planning, Meeting shackelford

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Speaker 1: Then shackelford And corporu showed him a shot off shotgun

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Speaker 1: and Then Brian brooks also claimed to have witnessed the

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Speaker 4: Shooter brian tells this story and then after he's finished

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Speaker 4: Why it's, like, WELL i just lied up. There they

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Speaker 1: Lover an inmate?

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Speaker 4: Lover it was clearly very revealing about the culture in

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Speaker 4: Court so they brought the sheriff on the. Stand they

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Speaker 4: The ASSISTANT da basically said To Brian, brooks hold on a,

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Speaker 4: minute what happens to people who tell on other people in?

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Speaker 4: Snitches so you're just really worried about being a, snitch,

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Speaker 4: Right your testimony was.

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Speaker 5: Accurate realized that THE da did a lot of things

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Speaker 5: Prosecutor but NOW i understand the purpose of. It the

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Speaker 1: But that was many years after it would have Done

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Speaker 1: tyree any. Good, meanwhile the attorneys for all three were

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Speaker 1: able to expose inconsistencies and falsehoods From Levon, Griffin James,

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Speaker 1: davis And Sonia, godfrey followed By Brian brooks's in court,

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Speaker 4: Night he was At Damon milligan's house With Damon milligan's

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Speaker 4: hang out with was a bit of a, party not

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Speaker 4: exactly the most credible witness to put in front of a.

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Speaker 4: the alibi just sort of frittered.

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Speaker 1: Away it also didn't clear him from The october twenty sixth.

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Speaker 4: Meeting there was another witness who would never be Called Jonathan.

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Speaker 4: Muldrew mouldrew had gone down and spoken to either THE

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Speaker 4: muldrow was At James davis home where this supposed the

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Speaker 4: planning session took, place And muldrow was, like, No i'll

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Speaker 4: There muldrow Professes tyree's innocence and complete. Uninvolvement tyree's lawyer

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Speaker 4: tried to Get muldrow to come, testify And muldrow was

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Speaker 4: and they just gave.

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Speaker 1: Up just gave up on the independent witness who could

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Speaker 1: have destroyed the planning meeting, evidence so that left only

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Speaker 1: his alibi witnesses against Cor pru's redacted. Statement The Van

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Speaker 5: The people who supported, me it seemed like an absolute no.

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Speaker 5: of the mindset THAT i can't be found guilty for

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Speaker 1: Guilty but remember the standard was much. Lower they just

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Speaker 1: that led to robbery and the resulting, death whether that was,

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Speaker 4: come down on Shackle.

436
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: Ford And, wallace so corporal was not included in the

437
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,360
Speaker 1: verdict that led to life imprisonment for Both Raheem shackelford

438
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 1: And Tyree.

439
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 2: Wallace my mindset was THAT i couldn't be found guilty.

440
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:39,159
Speaker 5: BECAUSE i didn't do it LIKE i genuinely absolutely believe that.

441
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 5: Right so of course that afforded, hope, right but then

442
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 5: they read the verdict.

443
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 2: And the verdict was. Guilty it's hard for me to

444
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 2: put in words how that. Felt it was. Disbelief it

445
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 2: was not.

446
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 5: Understanding as soon as they gave me the, OPPORTUNITY i

447
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 5: spoke out immediately at trial and, said you're HONOR i

448
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 5: did not commit this.

449
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 2: Crime it wasn't viewed as someone wh.

450
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 5: Didn't commit the crime fighting for their life, right which

451
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 5: is what it. Was it was viewed as this convicted

452
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 5: murderer being. Disruptive so AFTER i was sentenced to, life

453
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 5: THEN i wasn't shipped. Upstate it was absolutely what you

454
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,360
Speaker 5: think prison is supposed to be. Like it was extremely,

455
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 5: violent it was extremely sexually. Violent that was my first

456
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 5: encounter With Central pennsylvania CEOs and how they don't like

457
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 5: people From, philly how they particularly don't like black men

458
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 5: And it's my first time ever encountering this type of. Energy,

459
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 5: Right it's like the stain for, me for people who

460
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 5: don't know, me there was a violent. Energy, Now fortunately

461
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 5: the neighborhood THAT i come From South philadelphia had a

462
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 5: strong presence in the.

463
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 2: INSTITUTION i went right into that.

464
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,959
Speaker 3: Fold but THEN i immediately switched my mind to all,

465
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 3: RIGHT i have to fight, this AND i got introduced

466
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 3: to the law library and really got focused on. Learning

467
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 3: BUT i saw at a really quick face that this

468
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 3: is language that.

469
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 5: Is created by this. System these are rules that are

470
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 5: created by this. System and then the people who want

471
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 5: to keep you in, prison they are the arbiter of

472
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 5: whether you are successful or.

473
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: Not his initial appeals were, denied as was his first

474
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 1: post conviction motion or but it's known as A pcra

475
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: in two thousand and, two which was based on an

476
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: Effective assistance Of, council While tyree filed successive. Pcras Matthew

477
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 1: corporal swore an Affid david For Raheem shakle for his

478
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: attorney in two thousand and, seven saying that he alone

479
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 1: committed the robbery homicide Which tyree only heard about in

480
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 1: two thousand and, nine but In finally a NEW pcra

481
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: based on that Affid, david the state presented paperwork stating

482
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: That corporal was mentally ill and requested a psychologist to

483
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: demonstrate what they had known at the time of.

484
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 3: Trial corporu was clinically insane at the time of front

485
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 3: the major, depression bipolar, schizophrenia and projection, issues and it

486
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 3: dates back to when he was a. Child the only

487
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 3: REASON i know this is BECAUSE i had access to

488
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 3: his records as a result of the competency. Here so

489
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 3: they knew this about this man and still took a

490
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 3: statement from.

491
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: Him, obviously THE pcra was, denied but corproof should have

492
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: never been relied on in the first. Place, then in twenty,

493
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: thirteen The Pennsylvania Innists project signed on To tyree's case

494
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: and they unearthed much of the exculpatory evidence that you've heard.

495
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 5: Today their private investigator went, out combed the, community spoke

496
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 5: To Van. Griffin he wanted to come, Forward Rashie, grant same,

497
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 5: Thing Ricky, wilson same, thing on and on and on

498
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:52,239
Speaker 5: and on and.

499
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 2: On there is all of this.

500
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: Evidence Le Van griffin said that police threatened him with

501
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: his own charges if he didn't say exactly what they

502
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: wanted him to. Say Rashid grant And Ricky wilson said

503
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: the same thing That john muldro had. Said tyree was

504
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: not at The october twenty six planning meeting At James davis's,

505
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: house and ANOTHER pcira was.

506
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 4: Filed there was a moment there around twenty nineteen where

507
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 4: it looked like witness interviews that With muldrow and some

508
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 4: other witnesses they were going to maybe get some assistance

509
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 4: from the. Court But Levanne griffin was supposed to show.

510
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 4: Up he didn't show. Up and that was right BEFORE

511
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 4: i got.

512
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: Involved and even though The pennsylvania And This Is project

513
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: routinely reaches out to private council to help with, cases

514
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: that's not How david got. INVOLVED i, mean after, all

515
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: he's an intellectual property.

516
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 5: Lawyer SO i started this movement, here which was called Main.

517
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 5: Up in just a quick, nutshell how that. Happened WHEN

518
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 5: i was seeing all of this gun violence ON, tv

519
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 5: it was really the only people that was standing up

520
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 5: to it were the women in the. Community so my

521
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 5: thought process was, like where are the? Men SO i,

522
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 5: said what CAN i do about?

523
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 2: It in?

524
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 5: Here AND i knew that a lot of the young

525
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 5: guys who were here would be back in the. Outside

526
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 5: SO i wanted to create a movement of men understanding

527
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,719
Speaker 5: what it was to be a, man what that meant for,

528
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 5: yourself for your, family and your. Community and we created

529
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 5: this movement Called Man. Up so every week we would

530
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 5: have four hundred and fifty. Men we had to turn

531
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 5: away hundreds of people to get to the chapel every,

532
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 5: week and the only thing that we were there for

533
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 5: was to talk about being better. Men each week there

534
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 5: would be a different. Topic so if this week's topic

535
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 5: was about community, restoration we would have fives people would

536
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 5: act out a, skit somebody to do a song, outside

537
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 5: guests come in and give speeches about community. Restoration but

538
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 5: then we would lay out plans for how we impact our,

539
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 5: community which is how The Street Capin initiative was. Born

540
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 5: jobs came from. This my father one c three nonprofit,

541
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 5: Organization Man up came as a result of. This we

542
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 5: did street, cleanings we had a Man up hubs and

543
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 5: different communities on the, outside so we did a lot

544
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 5: of positive things based off of.

545
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 4: It the program was being so well received that there

546
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 4: were questions about replicating it at other, prisons so he

547
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 4: had some intellectual property.

548
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 2: Questions So dave came to See may and up it.

549
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 4: Was an amazing almost revival like, programs and they would

550
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 4: tackle topics like toxic masculinity or anchor, management or being

551
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 4: a better, father or fiscal. Responsibility and, eventually through probably

552
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 4: some deat subliminal messaging From tyree to, me you, know

553
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 4: he wanted me to play that council. Role AND i

554
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 4: sort of resisted it for quite a while because it

555
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 4: was not my. Lane BUT i, eventually with the support

556
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 4: of my Firm Blank rom and then collaborating With Ker

557
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 4: Bradford gray And kier having been the chief public defender

558
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 4: In Montgomery, county having headed up The Defenders association In,

559
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 4: philadelphia we became co counsel For.

560
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: Tyree david and Kir Bradford gray continued down the same

561
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: path as The Pennsylvania innis's, project interviewing and reinterviewing.

562
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 4: WITNESSES i, Mean brooks has told Us tyree's. Innocent shack

563
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 4: Of ford has told Us tyree's. Innocent muldrew Knows tyree

564
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 4: had nothing to do with. It davis said as.

565
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 2: Much James davis.

566
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 3: Has since acknowledged.

567
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 2: IT i had no involvement in it that wasn't at his.

568
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 4: Home there's nobody in this entire chorus that Says tyree

569
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 4: actually had anything to do with.

570
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: It as we understand, it the chorus to Whom david

571
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: is referring has unanimously named an alternate suspect who may

572
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: or may not have been one of the state's trial. Witnesses,

573
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: now we're certainly not in the business of making accusations

574
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: that might lead to another wrongful, Conviction so we're going

575
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: to refer to the chorus of state witnesses and others

576
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: who Proclaim tyree's.

577
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 4: Innocence Levan griffin knows That Tyree, WALLACE i mean that

578
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 4: how many more. People the, sheriff who sat in the,

579
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 4: courtroom who has a pretty healthy experience of watching people,

580
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 4: testify believes That Brian brooks's recantation was actually the truth coming.

581
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 4: Out so the sheriff Supports Tyree. Wallace the sheriff came

582
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 4: up here and talked with us about. It he was

583
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 4: shocked when he was contacted and found out That Tyree

584
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 4: wallace had been sitting in prison for. Years he thought

585
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 4: for sure there had been a mistrial After Brian brooks's, Recantation.

586
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: So david And Kir Bradford gray filed ANOTHER pcra in

587
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: which all of the witnesses at trial have either recanted

588
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: or been, discredited and with the court's typical reluctance to

589
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: admit wrongdoing and the goal of at least Getting tyree,

590
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: Home david And keir got the court to agree to.

591
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 4: Resentencing tyree's sentence was life without parole under second degree founy,

592
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 4: murder and On june, tenth twenty twenty, four we got

593
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 4: his life sentence, vacated having been sort of put into

594
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 4: a position where he would end up pleading to conspiracy

595
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 4: to commit murder.

596
00:32:54,640 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 5: Three so this unwillingness to truly be accountable for the

597
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 5: ills of the, system that is another part that has

598
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 5: to be.

599
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: Confronted so the fight to Clear tyree's name is not.

600
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: Over as far as his resentencing hearing On, Monday november,

601
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: fourth twenty twenty, four there were a number of possible,

602
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: outcomes the worst one being twenty to forty years with parole.

603
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: Eligibility with optimism and, Anticipation tyree registered to, vote and

604
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: we're happy to announce that he was released on time

605
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: served and got a chance to vote for the very

606
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: first time the following. Day we're so happy For tyree

607
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: and his, family and again we hope for their continued

608
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: success as they continue to fight his. Case in the,

609
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: meantime we're going to link a fundraiser For tyree's re

610
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: entry in the episode, description as he's not only going

611
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: to need help to get, by but also to hit

612
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: the ground running with the work he's been doing. Inside

613
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: and with, that we're going to go to closing arguments

614
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: as we originally recorded them before this tremendous.

615
00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 4: News i'm optimistic that we're going to have justice For.

616
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 4: Tyree he's the kind of voice that we should want

617
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 4: in our. COMMUNITY i think anyone who meets him feels

618
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 4: like it's a bit of a privilege to have crossed

619
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 4: his path and hear what he has to. Say so

620
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 4: we're going to bring him. Home i'm confident about. That

621
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 4: But tyree's fight won't end. Then he still deserves to

622
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 4: be fully. Exonerated he's going to want support not only

623
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 4: for himself personally to some, degree But tyree is going

624
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 4: to sort of set things, ALIGHT i think in terms

625
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 4: of fighting for, others trying to change, policy and he's

626
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 4: going to want people who are listening and who are

627
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 4: set by his story or energized by it to join,

628
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 4: him because it's going to take a whole chorus of

629
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 4: people to make changes to the things that he faced

630
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 4: so that he and others don't continue to have this.

631
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 2: HAPPEN i am extremely grateful for the.

632
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 5: Opportunity, again it is not acceptable that my name still

633
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 5: be attached to the robbery and killing position young Who.

634
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 5: King ONCE i am, OUT i am want to fight

635
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 5: to make sure that my name is, clear that what

636
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 5: happened to missus young youngs who cling is made. CLEAR

637
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 5: i want to do some things to honor his name

638
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 5: and to respect his name and. PERPETUITY i am an open.

639
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 5: Book there are no questions THAT i do not want

640
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 5: to ask or.

641
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 2: Answered and, again thank you for this.

642
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:29,359
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