0:05

Oh my god, Yes man, this crowd

0:07

filly critical coal. Yet what

0:10

appears to be a generic

0:12

comedy police officer shot in the back of our ability.

0:15

She is that movie. It

0:18

is one of us. They have got one dawn

0:21

it looked I had. In

0:23

nineteen ninety five, detective

0:26

Tony Richardson was trying to figure

0:28

out who killed a fellow officer,

0:31

Deputy Bill Hardy. Had it

0:33

been my decision the

0:35

day we caught the people they did it, Let's

0:39

let's put them on death throat. Without

0:41

solid evidence, the case comes

0:44

down to who is believed and

0:46

who is ignored. The evidence

0:48

wise, we had personally nowhere evidence.

0:52

We had the word of

0:54

a fifteen year old who told

0:56

lies, a lot of lies.

1:00

She says she was there and I would there.

1:02

That's there. That's that's

1:05

a shame. When the deputy

1:07

was shot at the hotel, to Forrest

1:10

Johnson was four miles away,

1:12

but now he's on death row. This

1:16

case is all about alternative

1:19

worlds that are in conflict

1:22

with each other and in conflict

1:24

with truth, and in conflict

1:26

with what our justice system stands for. We

1:28

had a week case. It's based on testimony

1:31

and one witness. The only evidence

1:33

supposedly they had against was this ear witness

1:36

who had never heard him speak before, who

1:39

had no idea who he was. And

1:42

I just started sobbing, like uncontrollable,

1:45

because I was like, oh, my goodness,

1:48

we did convict an innocent man and

1:51

he's been on death row all

1:53

these years and I didn't know it. I'm

2:02

Beth Shelburne from Lava for Good

2:04

Podcasts. This is

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Earwitness. The

2:09

best thing that a person probably

2:11

can do for themselves that's suspected

2:13

of a crime is do not talk to

2:15

the boutonies period. Now

2:18

that's really interesting coming from a retired

2:20

detective, but that's the truth. Listen

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