Sept. 7, 2025

Moonlighting: The Ambush of Cpl. Betty Smothers and Kimen Lee

Moonlighting: The Ambush of Cpl. Betty Smothers and Kimen Lee
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Season 8

In this episode of “Bloody Angola Podcast”, Jim Chapman details the ambush in Baton Rouge Louisiana of Corporal Betty Smothers and Kimen Lee, The capture and conviction of those responsible and highlights the charitable work of her oldest son, former NFL star Warrick Dunn, who honored his mothers legacy throughout his career and still does to this day.

Timestamps
01:39
Story of Corporal Betty Smothers
04:05 The Night of the Shooting
08:46 Investigation and Arrests
14:13 The Trial Begins
19:19 Appeals and Sentencing
21:21 Warrick Dunn's Legacy
22:05 Shocking Developments
24:05 The Clemency Hearing
31:53 The Impact on Families
32:41 Voices from the Survivors
35:29 Reflections from Law Enforcement
52:23 The Final Decision on Clemency

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it's calling my name. There is no mercy and it's

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been a tentery juice as the huge stream game Wrangle three.

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Byma Dies inside these walls, inside the wild.

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Hadn't went no girl as I'm.

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast

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one and forty two years in the making, the complete

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story of America's bloodiest present. I'm Jim Chapman, and today

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I'm gonna jump right into it and cover with you

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the story of Corporal Betty's mothers, who was tragically murdered

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while working extra duty for the Baton Ridge Police Department

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at just thirty six years old. And y'all, I remember

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remember this one distinctly. When this horrific incident occurred, I

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was a senior in high school. I was the same

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age as Betty's mother's son, war Done, who years later

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would play in the NFL and even when the Walter

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Payton NFL Man of the Year award, he was an

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absolute stud on the field. And I knew firsthand because

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I played against wark Done when he was at Catholic

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High School and I was at Broadmoor High School in

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Baton Rouge. Now, I also had a lot of friends

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who were mutual friends with Wark done I grew up

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in a neighborhood where many of my friends attended Catholic

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High School in Baton Rouge, and all of my friends

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would describe Warwick as as good a person off the

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field as he was on the field, and that speaks

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to the way he was raised in The full credit

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there goes to his mother, Betty Smothers. So let me

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tell you just a little bit about how amazing this

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woman was at the time of her murder. Betty'smothers had

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six children and these children ranged from the ages of

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nine to the ages of eighteen. Just shy of eighteen,

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war Dunbe was her oldest. He was weeks from being

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eighteen years old. She had been a police officer for

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fourteen years at this point with the Baton Ridge Police Department,

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and she was a single mother. She was doing all

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of this alone. Think about that her son, Warwick, as

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I mentioned, he attended Catholic High School in Baton Ridge,

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which is a very respected private high school where to

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send your kids there typically you had to be someone

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of some pretty affluent means. This was an expensive school,

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and this was where Warick's athletic ability would play a

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key role. Warwick was even well known before high school.

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His athletic ability was very well known in the Baton

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Ridge area, and by the time he got to high

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school Catholic HI, they were more than happy to allow

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Wark to attend the school to wish him free in

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exchange for him playing football for the Catholic High Bears.

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So think of it as a high school version of

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a scholarship. In Warick, I'm sure was one of very

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few to attend Catholic HI without his parents even owning

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a home of their own in Betty's mother's case, which

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this fact would come into play a little bit later

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on in Warck's life. As you can imagine, with six kids,

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single mother, and you're a police officer, you have to

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work a lot of overtime to make ends meet, and

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Corporal Smothers she would do as much off duty work

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as she could possibly get. So I'm gonna take you

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back to January seventh of nineteen ninety three and Corporal

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Smothers is working a detail this night for a local

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grocery store. The grocery store closed and the manager escorted

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by Corporal Smothers, and they were both in her marked

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police car. They'd go to the night deposit of the

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bank to make the deposit. This was at twelve fifteen

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am on January seventh, nineteen ninety three. As soon as

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they pull up, a gunman appeared out of the dark

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shadows of the bank and fires several shots, hitting both

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the female grocery store manager as well as Corporal Betty Smothers.

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Corporal Smothers slumps over the steering wheel, but somehow, I

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would say it was an absolute miracle. The store man,

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who has eleven bullet wounds, she manages to put the

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police car into gear and steer it away from the bank,

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which this totally foiled the robbery. As the guman they

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did not pursue that vehicle. Corporal Smothers was shot five times,

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killing her. The grocery store manager was shot, as I said,

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eleven times. Many of the bullets hit Smothers and then

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would hit her too. Her name was Kim and Lee.

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She was injured, but she survived the attack just unbelievably.

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Police they arrived at the scene and it was determined

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from the spent shell casings. It was determined that twelve

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rounds were fired. One hand gun fired seven, the other

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handgun fired five, and they knew they were two different

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handguns because they were two different calibers. Now earlier, when

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I described scene, I used the term a gunman, and

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that was because the surviving victim, miss Lee, she only

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saw one gunman. However, you have two different weapons here,

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and police by this point they were pretty certain at

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least two people were involved in this shooting. So the

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whole community in Baton Rouge, they were shocked by this

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outrage by this. Corporal Smothers was beloved by everyone at

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BRPD and everyone who knew her outside of it. Her

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some work was extremely well known, one of the top

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recruits in the country at this point. He was a

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senior in high school, and this became national news quickly,

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and right off the bat Seemingly everyone wanted to help

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these kids. A memorial fund was set up the very

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next day, and even the governor of the state of

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Louisiana at that time, Edwin Edwards, he kicked in five

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thousand dollars to the already one thousand dollars crime stoppers

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reward for information that would lead to the capture of

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those responsible. And this was a fourteen year veteran of

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BRPD and the first officer to die in the line

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of duty in Baton Rouge in five years. Police wanted

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answers and the community wanted answers now the day after

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the shooting, and this is absolutely amazing to me considering

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her injuries, but the survivor, Kim and Lee, she undergoes

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hypnosis at the hospital and she was able to provide

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police with enough detail for them to create a composite

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sketch of the suspect that she did see. Remember she

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only saw one suspect. Then just a day after that,

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a confidential informant he tells a detective Denicola that someone

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by the name of Kevin Brumfield had killed Corporal Smothers

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and that another guy by the name of Eddie Paul

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had information about it. So police they pick up Eddie

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Paul and they bring him to the station for questioning

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and he tells police that his cousin West Paul, as

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well as Kevin Bromfield and someone that he only knew

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is aj Or Ray j had committed the crime. So

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based off of this information, police they get arrest warrants

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for both Kevin Bromfield and West Paul, and they are arrested.

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And this is on January eleventh of nineteen ninety three,

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which is just four days after the shooting in the

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murder of Corporal Smothers. Now, police are also looking through

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arrest records and rap sheets to determine if they have

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ever arrested someone with the street name of ray J

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or DJ ORAJ or anything like that to figure out

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who this guy is. And they come across a man

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by the name of d Ron or Darren and Brooks,

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and they show a photo of the guy to Eddie

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Paul and they say, is this a guy you were

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calling ray J? And he says, yeah, that's the guy.

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So police get a warrant for Brooks. However, he's released

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from questioning rather quickly when it's discovered that he definitely

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could not have done this or been involved in it,

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because at the time this murder went down, he was

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in police custody. So they then focused their questioning on

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west Paul. Now when he was arrested, as soon as

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police arrive at his door, his comment was, quote I

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knew y'all was coming. He also said, quote I didn't

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shoot no police officer, and this was before anyone had

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told him what they were there for. Also, they got

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from his residence a camouflage jacket that Kim and Lee,

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the survivor, had said the shooter was wearing the night

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of the shooting. Now, in the meantime, Kevin Bromfield's questioning

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was taking off, and initially, of course, he denies any

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involvement in anything, but under several hours of intense questioning,

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he confesses in a taped statement. So, according to his confession,

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he said that he and his friend who he described

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as Smoky which this was later determined to be Wes Paul,

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and a guy by the name of Henry Broadway where

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driving around. They were looking to what he referred to

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as quote hit a hustle, which he described as riding

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around looking for someone to rob. He said they were

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drinking and they somehow knew about the grocery store making

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these late night bank deposits, So they went to that

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bank and they hid in the bushes until Corporal Smothers

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and miss Lee showed up to make the deposits. That night,

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he said that he and Broadway jumped out of the

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bushes and Corporal Smothers saw them and that he panicked

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and he just started shooting, which he said made Broadway

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panic and he starts shooting. He said during this time

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Wes Paul was around the corner in the car to

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serve as the getaway driver. And he said that after

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the shooting occurred, they jumped back in the car freaking

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out obviously, and he said they actually passed police officers

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heading to the scene as they were making their getaway.

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So at this point in the investigation you have Bromfield

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admitting to killing Corporal Smothers, as well as implicating Henry

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Broadway in the shooting and the killing and implicating Wes

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Paul as the getaway driver. Now and the questioning of

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these three a lot was determined. First a little over

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twenty four hours prior to it was determined that Kevin

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Bromfield and Henry Broadway they go to a psychic in

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the Baton Rouge area to obtain a tarrort card reading.

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And it was during this reading that Bromfield, who according

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to the psychic, was carrying a gun, said he planned

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to commit a robbery and he wanted to know the

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best day to do so, and with the cards tell

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him that. It also came out that the day after

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the murder, Bromfield told Eddie Paul, quote, I just killed

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a some bitch. Eddie Paul also said he heard Bromfield

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tell Broadway the murder was a waste of time because

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they didn't get any money out of it. Also coming

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out was that Broadway admitted to another robbery prior to

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that robbery in Clinton, Louisiana. So on February fourteenth, nineteen

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ninety three, twenty year old Kevin Bromfield, twenty two year

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old Henry Broadway in twenty year old West Paul, they

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enter please of not guilty in court, which of course

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means nothing. They don't have anything to lose, and in

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almost every case you'll ever hear about, they plead not

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guilty right out of the gate, and the prosecutor in

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this case a legend, if you will, in the Baton

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Ridge area, prim Burns. She announced she would be seeking

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the death penalty for all three of these individuals in

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this case. Now. Shortly after this, it was also discovered

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that the informant who called in the police this was

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none other than Attie Paul himself. When the following article

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ran in a Baton Ridge newspaper over a month after

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those pleas were entered, and here's what the advocate had

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to say. It starts Eddie. Paul just wanted to do

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what was right when he called police on January tenth,

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gave them a tip that led to arrest in the

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death of Baton Ridge Police captain Corporal betty'smothers. But doing

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the right thing landed him in an isolation cell and

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cost him his personal belongings, some disability pay and peace

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of mind. Quote. I never had so many headaches in

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all my life, Paul said. I don't know what's going on.

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They made my life a living hell. I know that

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since calling police. Paul, who is fifty, was arrested as

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a material witness and spent five weeks in a cell

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at Parish Prison, booked as a principal to first murder

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in smother's death. He was released February eighteenth. While he

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was in prison, someone broke into his apartment. Quote, they

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took everything I had, Paul said. They left my thirteen

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year old daughter there by herself. Paul's daughter moved in

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with her mother. Paul, a disabled McCann, moved to a

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new apartment while he was in jail. The government discontinued

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his disability payments, but his sense restored those. He said, quote,

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I don't sleep well at night, Paul said, I'm back

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on medicine. I take nerve pills. Sometimes it looks like

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they don't even work. Paul's tip led police to three

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men who were indicted in February for first degree murder.

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The thirty six year old officer was in bushed inner

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police car on January seventh and shot repeatedly. She was

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accompanying a grocery store manager to make a bank deposit.

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The manager was severely injured. Paul tip police that Kevin Bromfield, twenty,

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told Paul Hugh shot someone. Quote he didn't say who

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he shot, Paul said Monday, as he waited to testify

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in pre trial hearings for Bromfield Henry Broadway in West

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Paul his cousin three days later. Bromfield had a gun

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and children were playing nearby. Paul said, quote, Kevin was

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hanging out around my house with a gun. That's why

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I called the police on him. Police investigating the complaint

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did not find Bromfield, but brought Paul in for questioning.

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Bromfield was later accused of shooting Smothers, Broadway of shooting

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her passenger, and west Paul of driving the getaway car.

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Paul said he knew nothing of the case other than

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Bromfield's comments quote, they took me to jail for all

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that from the day they locked me up. I didn't

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know what was going on. And that was an article

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by The Advocate released March thirty first, nineteen ninety three.

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So it takes a couple of years before this case

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goes to trial, and in the meantime, one of those charges,

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wes Paul, the getaway driver, he cuts a deal with prosecutors.

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And that's not surprising. By the way, the prosecution was

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going to seek the death penalty against wes Paul, and

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it's probably not something they were really going to do

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for the getaway driver. Be real hard to get a

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death penalty to stick against a getaway driver who didn't

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actually kill anybody. But prim Burn's amazing prosecutor and likely

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was using this to scare Westpaul into cutting a deal,

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which he did, and that deal stated that in exchange

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for his testimony against Bromfield and Broadway, he would get

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twenty five years and not life. In present and certainly

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not the death penalty. So in July of nineteen ninety five,

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a little over two years after the murder of Corporal

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Smothers and the attempted murder of Miss Lee, Kevin Bromfield

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and Henry Broadway they go to trial. Now, during this trial,

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some key evidence comes out outside of the fact that

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these guys had confessed to several people about the murder,

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and most notably was the fact that the shellcasings found

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that the scenes matched guns that were found with Bromfield

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and Broadway. Judge Ralph Tyson, he presided over the proceedings

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in two hundred the perspective jurors were actually narrowed down

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to twelve for this trial. In the end, in early

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July of nineteen ninety five, both Bromfield and Broadway are

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convicted of first degree murder and both get sentenced to

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death via lethal injection. Now, like the vast majority of stories,

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I tell you, here's where the story really gets started.

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Of course, especially with death penalty cases, you expect most

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of the convicted are going to exhaust their appeals completely.

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Maybe they'll get lucky, maybe a technicality is going to

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be found somewhere, whatever, So in Bromfield's case, his appeals

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really stood on one thing, and that was his mental

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capacity was consistently measured between seventy and seventy five, which

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would indicate a mental disability and cognitive impairment. Which here

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is my opinion on this. You commit murder, this murder

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right here, and then you take steps to hide the

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fact that you murdered someone. That proves to me you

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knew murdering this amazing lady and damn near murdering another.

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You knew that was wrong, but you did it anyway.

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You weren't so mentally incapacitated, you didn't know right from wrong,

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otherwise you wouldn't have been trying to hide it after

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the fact. So while all these appeals are going on

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and they're moving forward, so is the family of Corporal

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Smothers Warwick. Despite all the odds, I mean, this guy

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had to become a mama and a daddy overnight. In

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addition to going to college, he went on to become

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a major football star in college, playing for Florida State,

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much to my chagrin because I'm an LSU Tiger guy.

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In nineteen ninety seven, he was drafted as the twelfth

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overall pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and he goes

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on to play in the NFL for twelve seasons. He

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made two Pro Bowls, He won the Walter Payton Mann

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of the Year Award, and all kinds of other awards.

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Off the field, he was equally outstanding. He established the

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Quote Home for the Holidays program, which assists single parents

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with down payments and fully furnished homes. Which I can't

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think of a more amazing way to honor your single

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mother and everything that she did for her kids than

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by assisting other single parents with down payments for homes

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because his mother could never afford a house, and it

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just gives me chills thinking about it. He's helped over

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three hundred families through that program. Now. In twenty sixteen,

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something I consider shocking occurred when Kevin Bromfield is resentenced

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from death row to life in prison after a court

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apparently disagreed with me and decided that his mental capacity

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was such that he couldn't get the death penalty. Warick

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Dunn himself was against this. They felt he was too

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mentally disabled to be sentenced to death. Then in twenty

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twenty three, it was Henry Bromway's turn to try and

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get out of death row, and in a clemency hearing,

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famed lawyer Barry Sheck. You may remember him from the

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OJ Simpson trial. He is also the founder of the

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Innocence Project, which is now a national nonprofit that fights

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to get people off death road that are innocent of crimes.

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And I have respect for that. And he has had

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several high profile cases where people were exonerated by DNA

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and it was through pushing for their innocence through that program.

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So I got nothing but love for that program. I

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think if someone is innocent, the last thing you obviously

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want to do is put him to death. And they've

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done some great things there, but here they're not fighting

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for someone that's innocent. And he spoke, of course, in

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defense of Broadway. But guess what Ward done? Was there?

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Ward done? Sister? Was there? Many people were there and

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Ward Done. He was having none of this. And you

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have absolutely got to hear this in its entirety. This

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is the clip from the hearing for Henry Broadway when

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he was seeking clemency, and you're gonna hear Ward Done

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speaking to the Louisiana Pardon Board. You're gonna hear his sister,

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you're gonna hear the former chief of police b RPDS

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great fairies, and you're going to hear the decision of

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the board after they make their comments. So here's that club.

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First, we'd like to hear from the victims' family, mister Dunn.

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Could we hear from you, sir?

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Yes, ma'am. You know this is.

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You know, it's heartbreaking because I mean, I understand individuals

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go to prison. We're only convicted. I do understand that

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in this situation, that's not the case. And it's really disrespectful,

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and I mean, I'm over here getting emotional listening to

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you know, nonsense, not even understanding that if someone is

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shot and killed your family members they come to your

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front door, you're not going to have that. You're not

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going to have that perspective. And then, if you think

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about it, we have police officers that are supposed to

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be protecting us, serving and protecting, and all of a sudden,

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now we got a guy who's been on death road

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for thirty years. He's able to get up every day,

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eat three meals, call his family and what my kids,

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my brothers and sisters, kids, you know, grandkids, won't be

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able to meet their grandmother. They don't have that experience of,

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you know, the values she could have added to their life.

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And then everyone wants to talk about you know because

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I play professional football and you know I help families. Well,

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I'm not able to do the things that I do

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for other individuals because my mom is not here. She

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sacrificed her life to protect people. And to listen to

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this nonsense, This is nonsense about an individual who has

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been convicted, convicted, not innocent. And also well I heard

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in the past, well he put a gun to another

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lady's head in it jammed. No one talks about that.

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I mean, this is it's just it's just frustrating because people,

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people are sacrificing our lives, and the police officers, you know,

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I you know, we let someone off death row lest

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some clemency this or that any individual in this country

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will go around thinking they could just kill and shoot

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people and their consequences is that I'm just going to

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spend the rest of my life in prison and I

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need three meals a day, spending taxpayers dolls. Please, it's

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just disrespectful and I mean, I'm I pose you know,

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these two individuals, you know everyone who who's opposing that,

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you know he needs clemency, that he needs to be

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off death row or I just I oppose that. And

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you know, I know my sister. I don't know if

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she's able to talk, but she can also express herself

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in a way that I mean, my younger sister didn't

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have her mother nine years old. You think she could

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have been a better woman today than she is now. Yes,

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my sister could have. So you guys, don't understand anything

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and go out defend people. I don't want innocent people

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to die lose their life. I'm all about that, but

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in this case, don't don't commit me and my family

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who suffered all these years because at eighteen years old,

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I had to become a father and I took care

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of my brother's sister because that's what my mom trained

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me to do over the years. Because we couldn't afford

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a house, we could could afford this, and that we

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were surviving.

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Thank you, mister done. That's summers. Mothers or would you

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like to say a few words, Hey, you're you're still

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on me.

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I'm sorry, I'm in the car trying to uh drive

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out me right you right?

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So I apologize, Okay, is there something like to know?

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Just to piggyback off of my brother, I did write

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a speech and just wanted to make you guys aware.

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As we reflect on this thirty year journey without our mother,

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we're a constant reminded that we have a hold in

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our horse that would never be filled. The pain won't stop.

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In some memories fad, but the constant flashback of January seventh,

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nineteen ninety three remains the worst part of it all.

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I remember like it was yesterday. Each year getting harder

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and harder to process. We all have grown up with

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kids of our own, which makes it this part of

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life most difficult to bear. People often ask, how do

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you hear it from something like this? I replied, you

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never heal, You always be broken. You always wondered what

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life could have been if she was still here, But

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instead we constantly try to explain to our kids who

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our mother was. Have you ever imagined trying to explain

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to a child what a cemetery looks like, why she's

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not there, not here with us, or when they asked

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to see their grandmother, you have to take them to

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a burier, apply a tombstone that can't speak words of

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comfort back or give them reassurance that everything is okay.

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Have you ever opened a piece of mail and thought

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you'd seen a ghost? Asking yourself, why does God keep

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punishing us? We all received a letter from this attorney

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office back in April, not knowing one of us or not.

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One of us told the other one that we have

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received this letter because it was going to open a

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door that we all try to keep close. Within thirty years.

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Within thirty years, we have never had anyone from the

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defendant side check up on us. But what amazed us

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as soon as Governor Edwards announced it was against he

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was against the death penalty. The office engaged at the

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defense victim out of specialists to inform us of the

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new development in the case. We started trying to place

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pieces together. We made phone calls to figure out what

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was going on, and that's when we were informed of

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Broomfield me I'm sorry Broadway petition to appeal once again.

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How can you ever hear from something if it's a

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revolving door. Our family has been through so much and

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other in another. We're just devastating to the families. This

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not only affects us, but our kids who now tried

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to protest what's going on, learning about the unspoken, unfilled

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to truth of our mother's death that we tried to

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protect them from. They never knew the impact of our

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minds have had on us. They just thought, I'm sorry,

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I'm sorry, somebody called. They just start trying to place

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pieces together. Can found polity figure out what's going on?

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I'm sorry. Our family has been through through so much

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in another just depth stating to our families does not

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only affects us, but we're trying to process what's going on,

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learning the unspoken truth of our mother's death. They just

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started trying to notice the trends and behave you when

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it comes to certain things in milestones. As I close,

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I want to understand. I want you guys to understand

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that hurt, the pain and love that I can't get back.

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Imagine yourself at fourteen, being woken up to your news

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that your mother was shot and kill not because she

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was doing anything wrong, but because she was serving and

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protecting the citizen of back Rudge. Now you and your

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sibling has to figure out like who's gonna provide for you,

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where you're gonna live, Who's gonna be or we're gonna

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be able to stay together all why our prepreen to

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bury your only parents you have? But we accept the

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fact that mister Broadway continues to breathe life, get three

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meals a day, continues to have conversation and see his family,

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a privilege that we can't experience and have an experience

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for the last thirty years. But we have to talk

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to the tunes songs that don't speak back.

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We will be about I'm sorry to interrupt. Can you

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wrap it up for us please?

468
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Yes, ma'am, I'm finishing up when we would be allowed to,

469
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:07.279
when we would be allowed to feel like the system

470
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:10.200
isn't broken and here's our Christ. All we want is

471
00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:13.039
justice that's overdue. And I don't have the luxury to

472
00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:16.200
know what the true mother loves feel like. I'm opposed

473
00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:21.119
to this a petition for appeal for clearancy. This this

474
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:23.000
is something that we deal with all the time, and

475
00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:26.480
we just u on my behalf of my sister and brothers.

476
00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:29.079
We're opposed to this clemsy petition.

477
00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:31.720
Yes, ma'am, thank you so much for taking the time

478
00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:34.039
to speak with us today.

479
00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:36.039
Its sleep.

480
00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:44.640
Thank you's for going to read this opportunity to steal.

481
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:49.839
I have been silent for almost thirty one years. To

482
00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:53.519
be exact, and not to take anyway thing away from Betty.

483
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:56.640
God rest your soul. But I lived in the shadows.

484
00:32:56.720 --> 00:33:00.519
When this tragedy it's talked about, I'm not even spoken of.

485
00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:04.599
I have, however, been living this every single day of

486
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:08.000
my life. January seventh will be thirty one years ago

487
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:12.279
this happened. This tragic event took everything from me. I

488
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:15.359
lived with surviv I lived with survivors guilt, and at

489
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.279
times it's more than I can bear.

490
00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:19.960
Any past I've lived in fear.

491
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:23.240
I would look out my window and feel so hopeless,

492
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:24.599
sad and depressed.

493
00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:26.680
NICKI saw the glass half full.

494
00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:32.160
Not long after everything happened, I found myself locked up

495
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:34.279
in a mental hospital for three and a half weeks.

496
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:36.839
I tried to heal and move long with my life,

497
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.759
but it felt impossible. I saw a therapist for over

498
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:42.960
three years. I couldn't understand why this happened to me,

499
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:48.000
How could anyone do this? As time passed, I learned

500
00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:50.640
to pick myself up and tried to move forward. Every

501
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:53.160
day was a challenge. I lived every day of my

502
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:56.319
life with PTSD. I will for the rest of my

503
00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:59.960
days on earth. My coworkers, my friends, my family, my neighbor.

504
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:01.319
No never to.

505
00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:04.559
Walk upon me without my full attention, because it sends

506
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:10.159
an into a dark place of fear and anxiousness. Please

507
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:14.119
understand by you doing this brings pain into all of

508
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:17.039
our lives, who will never give back what was taken

509
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:21.119
from us. I ask, and I beg of you, please

510
00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:24.480
do not do this. One life was lost and several

511
00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:28.079
lives were changed forever. By reducing the sentence from death

512
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:32.280
to life imprisonment, you were diminishing the atrocity of what

513
00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:36.519
was done to us. Betty died, our children's lives changed forever.

514
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:40.639
I live with this my whole life. Our lives mean.

515
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:41.199
More than this.

516
00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:46.519
And I will say, without any certainty, I know who

517
00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:49.760
I identified, and I stand tall and.

518
00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:51.159
One hundred percent certain.

519
00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:53.440
I know the man that I saw that night and

520
00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:57.079
that raining night was here Broadway without any doubt in

521
00:34:57.119 --> 00:34:59.840
my mind. And I beg of you, Please don't do this.

522
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:05.039
You've lived in pain for so long. Thank you, Thank you,

523
00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:12.239
mister Daniels.

524
00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:21.400
Yeah, I sam for you.

525
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:26.599
In oppositition named tomorrow Day representative Adage Police Department's times

526
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:27.559
A chiefs Fat.

527
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:32.199
I think this is one of those events that you

528
00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:32.719
grew up.

529
00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:36.559
In what do you work when you heard and it occurred.

530
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:38.400
I also.

531
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:44.760
Not a police officer at jack time, but over the

532
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:49.159
last twenty five plus years than our agency, I get

533
00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:54.000
to watch and see that the time is still had

534
00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:56.800
to heal. This is one of the still one of

535
00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:59.599
the most common topics stussed in our police.

536
00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:02.199
Department, and we're still assisting.

537
00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:07.440
A lot of our officers were there or we were

538
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:13.039
friends who actually responded to the scene that night because.

539
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:17.239
They're still in the hell process. We're very great opposition

540
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:20.280
of this request. We asked that you peace deny it

541
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:24.920
and again we pray for the family, law enforcement as

542
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:26.400
well as personally.

543
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:33.440
Thank you, sir, mister mister Ferris H.

544
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:45.519
Yeah, I'm fair glad. I'm Brett ferris Will, Chief to

545
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:46.320
ninth grade.

546
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:54.840
And just a moment to rest the shares comments, every

547
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:57.960
confidences siggestion was gone.

548
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:01.199
Thanks to spect.

549
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:04.559
Here side and.

550
00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:09.599
All the way is what it is because kid states

551
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:15.039
the true lead is very strongly.

552
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:21.599
Any chillative of police officers is one of the most

553
00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:22.960
famous crimes.

554
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:29.920
That can be committed because it is an attack on civilization.

555
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:34.800
It's the attack on the people. Team keep keep civilization.

556
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:43.639
That the nearest civilization will be its many killings of

557
00:37:43.719 --> 00:37:45.119
police officers.

558
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:49.800
Or what I would call them popular somebody who's newly

559
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:57.800
arranged or maybe a police officer responds to the investing issue.

560
00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:02.039
By the investig issue, where emotions are at their peak,

561
00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:05.159
he or she shot and kill.

562
00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:07.039
This wasn't the end.

563
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.679
This was three people.

564
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:16.320
Driving to set up and on the bank and Gilts

565
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:22.559
family and try to kill them successibly one unsuccessful, say

566
00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:25.239
kill two people to commit an arm mode.

567
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:27.880
It's about as bad as it gets.

568
00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:29.199
The way of.

569
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:37.800
Kill him remeditated, replanning and tragically executed.

570
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:47.320
Quite quite see, I cannot speak with the authenticipate of

571
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:48.960
work or summer.

572
00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:56.880
But let me take keep back. So I sat in

573
00:38:56.960 --> 00:39:00.360
my vetter today. I have to kill him a revery

574
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:04.039
unteen unity three Tom and he and I went to

575
00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:11.000
be very my engage both in the buildings. The old

576
00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:14.559
man singing a chair on the right Olympic child and

577
00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:22.360
get us laugh struck and said and company the child, well,

578
00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:27.719
it said, I kissed. It's the child said you can

579
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.239
on the back. I've been a tough mission.

580
00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:31.920
That, of course is important.

581
00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:41.559
He has been incredibly successful, even being successful man high school,

582
00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:51.480
college and front the Star running back Bounce as philanthropists.

583
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:55.760
Often he has accommis to the lots.

584
00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:02.840
But what he does not have never it's his buildings.

585
00:40:03.320 --> 00:40:10.719
Give his mother house procurred old day to be with her.

586
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:13.440
She passes away from the age of being.

587
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:16.840
Never happened.

588
00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:19.039
Broadway.

589
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:25.239
Two of the people pride and ambush, steal some money

590
00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:29.880
and to kill people seemed to be killed two people

591
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:33.960
I find January nineteen ninety.

592
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:37.559
They succeeded that.

593
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:37.960
You bet.

594
00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:42.000
It's about like almost see.

595
00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:50.000
Broadway has been through proud, It's been through feels all

596
00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:55.119
the way up from the certain vision I think, and

597
00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:59.239
how before that process has been that eviction best and firm.

598
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:05.119
I have no reason, no reason to supports.

599
00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:08.800
A check's attention that this was a bad investigation for

600
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:14.320
a bad team that I constructed in chief of.

601
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:18.920
Jacknives don vote just had to be done out absolutely right.

602
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:23.280
This was a feeling of resee officer, the most sensation

603
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:28.920
around that happened the batterie since January nine, seventeen and

604
00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:37.800
had to be done right. And it's totally irresponsible, as.

605
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:38.800
Some chief rejectives.

606
00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:45.159
Three days later it was as an out of time.

607
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:48.880
Yes about a check, Uh, you'd been out a whole time.

608
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:53.960
Super basket advised like a road now in Chicago? Was

609
00:41:54.000 --> 00:42:00.760
that go home and gets to sleep for folic part

610
00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:07.440
in war. So for based fandom strong appetitions, there's.

611
00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:15.280
Thank you, so right, mister Molimus Barbara, all turnt everything else,

612
00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:23.440
good warning warnings, all the checks.

613
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:28.239
Uh you know, I just.

614
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:35.199
I listened to all these statistics from these generations and

615
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:39.000
say I just need to step it, reponstrate it right

616
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:42.800
now that when we have an offender the foinder post invasion,

617
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:46.320
we in federal court and the judge turns that there

618
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:49.719
is a degree of intellectual visibility that we mean that

619
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:52.920
person cannot be executed and we entered into a contract

620
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:55.320
for life and that person's into the rest.

621
00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:55.639
Of his life.

622
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:59.880
In general population in Angola, that is not an exoneration.

623
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:05.800
And it is extremely effensive that these anti death penalties zealous.

624
00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:10.960
They have the right to their opinion. Disagree with it,

625
00:43:11.199 --> 00:43:14.360
they have the right to their opinion, but don't misrepresent

626
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:18.760
the statistics. And hear no mention of the cases where

627
00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:23.079
additional DNA testing is ordered and it in fact further

628
00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:28.639
confirms the victims I've written this identification of the rapists

629
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:29.639
one day I had just.

630
00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:31.519
A few years ago and meets back of cherish.

631
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:35.039
So yes, it's real easy to focus on the case

632
00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:39.599
since DNA and make it exonerated people and we can

633
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:44.880
throw out names. But let's not talk anymore about those cases.

634
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:48.920
Let's talk about the fact that Kim and Me, by

635
00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:52.199
the grace of God, was here to speak to you

636
00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:57.400
this morning. Let's talk about the fact that, as retired

637
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:03.880
Chief Berry said, civilisation is completely disrupted and someone decides

638
00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:08.440
to kill a law enforcement officer, someone who takes their

639
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:11.920
life to their hands every day. This was not a

640
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:16.519
domestic violence situation. We have unfortunately lost law enforcement in our.

641
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:17.239
Communicates to that.

642
00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:21.599
This is a man who plotted with his whovivot to

643
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:23.559
commit this arm probbery.

644
00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:26.599
This is a man who.

645
00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:33.280
During his time at Angola, he filed complaints because his

646
00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:37.519
sex novel wasn't delivered timely, or he didn't know the

647
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:38.840
method of execution.

648
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:42.000
He waited to start taking classes. I think living in

649
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:44.639
Balance just started in twenty twenty three.

650
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:49.559
This is a man who testified in this defense at

651
00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:53.440
a trial and didn't just say I am innocent.

652
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:56.239
He alleged that Kevin Lee was him on this, that

653
00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:56.639
this was.

654
00:44:56.679 --> 00:45:02.719
An inside job. It doesn't get much more offensive than that.

655
00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:09.840
As mister Lampert said, we sincerely appreciated having the opportunity

656
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:13.039
to speak to you at this phase of the process.

657
00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:18.840
It is unprecedented and we thank you for that. This

658
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:25.960
individual is not intellectually disabled. There are still post combition

659
00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:34.000
relief proceedings pending as we speak in federal This, ladies

660
00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:36.920
and gentlemen, I respectfully submit to you, is not.

661
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:44.239
The forum to litigate this claim of innocence. The United States.

662
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.320
Supreme Court deny exert in this case. It is now

663
00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:52.199
post conviction relief proceedings. Let that be litigated. There is

664
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:56.920
not a depth for it in this case. Henry Aureed,

665
00:45:56.960 --> 00:46:01.079
whoever you pronounce its first name Broadway is not condemned.

666
00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:10.199
They are proclaiming innocence. They obviously.

667
00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:19.960
Are seeking release into our population, not general population at Angola.

668
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:24.800
That man wants to be walking the streets.

669
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:31.719
With you, Me, Myron Daniels, Day May's Clarence mclarno, retired

670
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:36.880
Chief Fairies hill or Moore, Kiman Lee and God forbidding

671
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:41.840
the rest of the Smothers family or or summer the

672
00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:50.719
rest of them. Let this work itself out in federal court.

673
00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:55.039
This conviction has been upheld. There have been evidentiary hearings

674
00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:58.719
and district court. I believe there were five separate hearings

675
00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:03.199
days in front of the Honorable Ralph Tyson thanking someone

676
00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:08.679
to the federal for to grant let me senioring for

677
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:12.480
this man would just be one step further. And we

678
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:16.039
all know he will not be satisfied in general opulation.

679
00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:26.760
He once out on behalf of the family, half of one. Yes,

680
00:47:26.840 --> 00:47:27.800
at least not.

681
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:28.639
Needs the best.

682
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:31.280
Thank you, Thank you.

683
00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:40.239
Smart did you want family? It's all good on more

684
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:40.679
than so?

685
00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:42.280
What for.

686
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:49.639
Year and Jonny Jacksons charges have been around and you

687
00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:51.800
know all the other general so we respect this year

688
00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:55.880
and you know talk and turns. Marbella, I understand your

689
00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:58.199
books from why you do what you're doing on have

690
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:00.199
you think you are pat them?

691
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:03.199
And this case is a little beneath, a little different.

692
00:48:03.400 --> 00:48:06.239
I only wanted to stick up the manner in which

693
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:10.519
these folks would notify of what was going to happen,

694
00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:15.480
and that it is really offensive. They received the letter

695
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:19.440
in the mail from a law office representing the defendant.

696
00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:22.639
In that letter, it said that we have hired a

697
00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:26.239
special victims council for you. They don't work for us,

698
00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:29.400
they work for you. Ring my letter and please call

699
00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:31.519
my office and get you in touch with you're a

700
00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:32.679
victim representative.

701
00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:36.320
When they got that letter, warren't done called me and said,

702
00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:38.039
look in the hell this going on?

703
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:42.199
We obviously had no idea, and on that day all

704
00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:45.079
of these fishers were filed in mass at one time,

705
00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:49.360
obviously something I'd been in plans for a very long time,

706
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:51.719
and no notice was given.

707
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:53.599
To us all the day that letter.

708
00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:57.000
And I can tell you that over in years the

709
00:48:57.119 --> 00:49:02.320
number of times that I've called mister on sometimes in answers.

710
00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:06.480
Sometimes it takes time because he wants to know what's happening.

711
00:49:06.599 --> 00:49:09.519
That I could I could see the face, I can

712
00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:12.679
hear it in this this this is show me you

713
00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:15.760
know this family and all the other families that will

714
00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:19.920
see THEE and a'mother picture. Guys in such a difficult position,

715
00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:23.960
that a tough job to be. We work respectfully. Buys

716
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:26.360
the more specifics than.

717
00:49:26.760 --> 00:49:36.880
Thank you, thank you. There's no other comments to be made,

718
00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:40.599
so I think there to them. I'm start with missus Jackson.

719
00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:46.840
First, I'd like to plank here and want today.

720
00:49:48.320 --> 00:49:48.519
Yeah.

721
00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:59.519
For me, one thing is really important from me is

722
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.119
consistency and how I did things as a judge and

723
00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:08.119
tried to be They've been handed in every case that

724
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:10.079
I have because it's important.

725
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:12.559
I think that goes a long way to.

726
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:18.960
Ensuring justice as well as confidence in the system. With

727
00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:24.880
that being said, this war set certain guidelines for consideration

728
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:34.480
of onaments the application mister Broadway, and his application needs

729
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:39.760
social requirements just as any other applicant would, and granting

730
00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:40.639
a hearing is.

731
00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:42.800
Not insurance in any way.

732
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:47.320
Believe it's just a qut a process in place, and

733
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:50.480
I believe in a process in twice you should follow

734
00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:56.679
that process. Another thing that concerns me in this case

735
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:01.440
is that there were three people involved in the stere

736
00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:08.320
all three of them equally as culpable, every single one

737
00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:14.800
of them. And yet Kevin Romphield, who is clearly acknowledged

738
00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:16.480
as being the person.

739
00:51:16.119 --> 00:51:20.360
Who actually killed Officer's mothers I had.

740
00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:22.760
His will not ever be executed.

741
00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:29.320
There's a claim of intellectual disabilities, but as I read

742
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:33.920
the police reports time and time, his name came up

743
00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:40.159
as the maid actor, the mastermind, and yet he is

744
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:48.800
not facing executions all equally as culpable led to attempt

745
00:51:48.960 --> 00:51:54.239
on robbery receiving a twenty five year sentence. The only

746
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:58.679
person facing execution is hum be wrong.

747
00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:04.880
I will tell you that trouble that troubles me.

748
00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:06.519
Wow.

749
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:12.360
And so, because he makes the requirements for hearing, and

750
00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:17.519
because of my concern about the inconsistency of the outpout

751
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:19.719
in these stations, my.

752
00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:25.559
Role would be to grant a hearing. Thank you, missus Jackson,

753
00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:28.039
mister rushed, Thank.

754
00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:28.639
You, Madam Trevor.

755
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:37.360
A lot of the information controls me also.

756
00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:41.519
But and.

757
00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:48.119
Louisiana Cool, I was going to.

758
00:52:50.079 --> 00:52:51.079
Section five.

759
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:53.039
Eight.

760
00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:59.760
You know eight reasons why I could deny an application,

761
00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:06.000
and I'm just going to mention a couple of those

762
00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:13.280
nature the serious nature of their gregious nature of the crime,

763
00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:21.880
and is no more henny his crime than the murder

764
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:28.039
of a police officer, even if that person is not

765
00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:33.960
a record responsible for he participated in a felony that

766
00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:37.800
result in the death of a police officer and a

767
00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:43.239
seriously woman warning of an assistant manager of a superlogist

768
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:54.559
or in the progress of doing their job. The second

769
00:53:54.639 --> 00:53:59.400
reason that I'm going to use is his civil vision

770
00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:03.760
in history. Mister Broadway has been a supervision on cheap

771
00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:11.039
DIFTI occasions. Both of those occasions he was terminated unsatisfactory

772
00:54:11.679 --> 00:54:17.360
simply because he had other fellainies all miss demeanor convictions,

773
00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:25.639
and knowing I would I know after this ultimous lee,

774
00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:36.920
the express opposition in the victim's family, mister Dunn and

775
00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:43.599
his sister Summer, the adamate opposition from me Louisiana State

776
00:54:43.719 --> 00:54:48.760
Troopers Association and the Turney General of the State of Louisiana,

777
00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:54.800
bad News law Enforcement and the d a's office. And

778
00:54:55.559 --> 00:55:00.880
he's bat Newish, who is admirally opposed to hearing this

779
00:55:01.559 --> 00:55:09.719
based upon to Coma that it could it would inflict

780
00:55:11.199 --> 00:55:16.719
on the viacan's family. I have no other charge then

781
00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:24.000
to deny and reject this application based on information. All right,

782
00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:25.480
I'm true.

783
00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:29.519
Thank you, mister Osha, Thank you about it. Gentlemen.

784
00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:34.239
I would like to thank everybody for being here, certainly

785
00:55:35.679 --> 00:55:39.760
the victims in this case, the victims stamping. As mister

786
00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:42.639
Moore pointed out, I've got a lot of friends involved

787
00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:47.719
in this case. This is an extremely difficult case. This

788
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:51.840
is an administrative hearing to determine if this inmate meets

789
00:55:51.920 --> 00:55:57.280
eligibility requirements for hearing. At this hearing, we have allowed

790
00:55:57.400 --> 00:56:02.000
public comments comments those in and those who are opposed

791
00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:06.679
to a recommendation from hearing. As a member of this

792
00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:10.320
Pardon Board, I think it's important to note that every

793
00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:14.039
sector of the criminal justice system has its own obligations

794
00:56:14.119 --> 00:56:20.679
and responsibilities. Law enforcement has their responsibilities and their appligations.

795
00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:24.280
I can tell you by fifty years in the criminal

796
00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:29.719
justice system, I have the utmost respectful. Prosecutors have their

797
00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:34.599
obligations and responsibilities. I respect them. I was a prosecutor,

798
00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:37.840
and I believe that I hope that I honorably carried

799
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:42.159
out those responsibilities. I respect the defense lawyers for the

800
00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:45.079
job that they do. I was a defense lawyer. I

801
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:50.519
hope that I honorable character. Judges have their responsibility in

802
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:54.400
this system. I was a judge. Hope that I'm honorable character.

803
00:56:55.599 --> 00:57:01.559
Legislators also have their obligations and responsibility, and the Pardon

804
00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:07.559
Board as its obligations and responsibilities as well. And there

805
00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:11.639
are difference, And I hope when this is all said

806
00:57:11.679 --> 00:57:13.760
and done, and I'm offered the word that I can

807
00:57:13.880 --> 00:57:19.199
honestly say honorably carried out. But I don't be my obligation.

808
00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:21.800
On the part of board.

809
00:57:21.880 --> 00:57:25.480
Our responsibilities, duties, and obligations are to consider all of

810
00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:30.880
the circumstances and factors involved. We do not retry cases.

811
00:57:31.679 --> 00:57:33.599
We do not find fault in.

812
00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:38.360
The prosecution, jurors, or the course. We do look at

813
00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:41.639
the facts of the crime. We certainly look at the

814
00:57:41.679 --> 00:57:46.400
effects upon the victims and their families. Clearly, the pain

815
00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:53.360
the grief suffering if they have ended is unimagined. While

816
00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:57.360
considering all of these factors, our primary duty and responsibility

817
00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:01.280
is to look at the inmate today. Who was he

818
00:58:01.440 --> 00:58:06.840
when he committed this horrible crime nearly thirty one years ago, How,

819
00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:10.320
if in any way, has he changed in the last

820
00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:17.400
thirty years of incarceration. Who is he today? I think

821
00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:19.960
it's important to point out that we are not being

822
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:24.199
asked to release this inmate. We are being asked to

823
00:58:24.360 --> 00:58:29.440
consider granting this inmate an opportunity to have a hearing

824
00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:34.280
to determine it he merits a recommendation from this board

825
00:58:34.400 --> 00:58:38.320
to the God to change his sentence from death to

826
00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:39.559
life with them rule.

827
00:58:40.639 --> 00:58:42.079
This is what this hearing has been.

828
00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:47.599
After reviewing the entire recD, including public comments, the comments

829
00:58:47.639 --> 00:58:50.119
of those in favor, and the comments of those approach

830
00:58:51.320 --> 00:58:55.039
after nearly thirty one years, Sir, he is classified as

831
00:58:55.119 --> 00:58:59.880
a Lewis. He's got a good disciplinary record, nine write ups,

832
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:07.159
it has a good overall institution. My vote is that

833
00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:12.079
this indate does meet the eligibility. I vote to brand

834
00:59:12.239 --> 00:59:14.840
the here, ma'am Allen.

835
00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:21.280
Mister okay, A lot of things said this morning. First off,

836
00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:23.599
I want to thank every want for showing up today.

837
00:59:24.719 --> 00:59:27.639
Uh, you know, it is hard. I'm sorry that the.

838
00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:31.199
Dunk family has to keep reliving this every time something

839
00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:35.559
changes in our laws and every time they try to

840
00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:37.440
change the way things are looked at.

841
00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:42.840
But you know, there is a process that we look at.

842
00:59:43.960 --> 00:59:49.079
This is a capital murder, a capital murder of a

843
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:52.639
police officer, which theres no way they can say didn't

844
00:59:52.679 --> 00:59:55.079
know she was a police officer, she was in her unit,

845
00:59:56.320 --> 01:00:00.280
Miss Lee. They meant to kill you, there no out

846
01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:03.719
my mind. They meant to kill you also, And so

847
01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:08.480
I'll look at that process. A capital murder deserves more.

848
01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:14.360
Looking at and less and you should have to do

849
01:00:14.719 --> 01:00:18.840
more to be eligible for relief in an a capital

850
01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:23.880
murder case. And so that my problem and my vote get.

851
01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:30.360
Is to the not thank you, mister Crean. I have reviewed.

852
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:32.840
You know, this process was a little different than what

853
01:00:32.920 --> 01:00:35.280
we usually do through administrative review. We had a lot

854
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:39.079
more information to look at than we usually do. After

855
01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:45.400
considering all that, I noted that mister Broadway's case was affirmed.

856
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:48.199
As has been mentioned by the Supreme Court, his sentencing

857
01:00:48.280 --> 01:00:51.320
conviction was affirmed over twenty four years ago in nineteen

858
01:00:51.400 --> 01:00:57.159
ninety nine. He has no depth. He does have posting

859
01:00:57.159 --> 01:01:02.119
adiction hanging in the Froneral Court up and after listening

860
01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:06.679
to Miss Lee and mister Dunn and the smother's family,

861
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:11.000
I cannot vote to move this application forward to a

862
01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:14.719
hearing and put these people through basgain. So my vote

863
01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:17.679
today is to deny the application for a clemency hearing.

864
01:01:18.760 --> 01:01:22.320
Mister Broadways received two favorable votes to move forward. He's

865
01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:25.360
received three votes to deny his applications to move forward.

866
01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:28.800
So today his application for clendency hearing is denied.

867
01:01:29.239 --> 01:01:34.719
So there you have it, denied. I love it. I

868
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:37.599
think that's the right decision. And I'll tell you what,

869
01:01:38.119 --> 01:01:39.639
I don't know if you were as upset as I

870
01:01:39.880 --> 01:01:42.280
was when one of those Parole board members said, oh

871
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:45.039
well there's you know, the other guy got off and

872
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:48.960
he I understand got off because of his mental capacity,

873
01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:52.559
and maybe your mental capacity is not such. But there's

874
01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:55.920
so many and I'm paraphrasing here, twisting turns to this

875
01:01:56.159 --> 01:02:02.840
case that you should also get off of death row.

876
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:08.440
What is wrong with people? I'm sorry, that's shocking to me.

877
01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:11.119
Where is that lady's heart? And that was a female,

878
01:02:11.559 --> 01:02:14.079
she knows what it's like. I'm assuming she was maybe

879
01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:17.320
a mother. If she was, you know what it's like

880
01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:24.360
to be a mother, And you still fight for this

881
01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:32.639
guy that killed someone and gravely injured another. Horrible but

882
01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:36.480
there you have it. Clemency denied in Henry Broadway, to

883
01:02:36.639 --> 01:02:41.639
this day remains on death Row. Thank you so much

884
01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:45.079
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886
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887
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01:02:56.199 --> 01:03:18.000
complete story of America's bloodiest present. I walked straight line.

889
01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:27.800
Shackle change, Oh weesome, girdie, it's calling my name.

890
01:03:29.639 --> 01:03:30.559
There is no.

891
01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:37.760
Mercy and it's been a tentery juice as the huge

892
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:41.280
stream game wrangled the three.

893
01:03:43.239 --> 01:03:44.119
I'm here be.

894
01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:48.280
B I'm here to die.

895
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:54.800
Inside these walls, inside the wild.

896
01:03:56.760 --> 01:03:58.760
Hadn't went no girl.

897
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:00.400
Time.

898
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:14.960
No, it's abody angle, ohbody angle.