April 30, 2025

The French Quarter Stabber: Warren Harris Jr

The French Quarter Stabber: Warren Harris Jr

In this gripping episode of "Bloody Angola," Jim Chapman delves into the  case of Warren Harris Jr., infamously dubbed the French Quarter Stabber. Set against the backdrop of New Orleans in 1977. Convicted of the killing of (3) victims, found murdered...

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Season 7

In this gripping episode of "Bloody Angola," Jim Chapman delves into the case of Warren Harris Jr., infamously dubbed the French Quarter Stabber. Set against the backdrop of New Orleans in 1977. Convicted of the killing of (3) victims, found murdered in their apartments, this serial killer was sentenced to life without parole at the age of 16, but….would he stay inside Angola?

Sources

  1. Find a grave. James McClure.
  2. United Press International. Louisiana News Brief. Daily World. 23 Mar 1977.
  3. Associated Press. “N.O. Stabbings may…” The Town Talk. 06 Apr 1977.
  4. Associated Press. “5th French Quarter…” The Crowley Post-Signal. 08 Apr 1977.
  5. Associated Press. “Man, 77, slain…” The Times. 08 Apr 1977.
  6. United Press International. “French Quarter Stabber…” The Town Talk. 09 Apr 1977.
  7. Associated Press. “Stabber Suspect Found.” The News-Star. 14 Apr 1977.
  8. Associated Press. “Youth Indicted in…” The Town Talk. 20 Apr 1977.
  9. Staff Writer. “Alleged Black Stabber…” The Louisiana Weekly. 23 Apr 1977.
  10. Associated Press. “Suspect Stabber Pleads.” The Town Talk. 29 Apr 1977.
  11. United Press International. “Louisiana News Briefs.” St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune. 06 May 1977.
  12. Staff Writer. “Harris pressured, pleads…” The Louisiana Weekly. 07 May 1997.
  13. United Press International. “Teenager judged fit…” Daily World. 01 Jun 1997.
  14. Fealing, Ken. “Didn’t really identify…” The Louisiana Weekly. 04 Jun 1977.
  15. United Press International. “Informants helped police…” Daily World. 23 Jun 1977.
  16. Associated Press. “Four officers deny…” The Times. 24 Jun 1977.
  17. Staff Writer.

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H a wall, straight line, shackle change, Oh someome gird,

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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 Rango

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the three.

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I'm here, be.

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By me to die.

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Inside these walls, inside the wild.

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Hadn't went the girl as I'm.

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

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one hundred and forty two years in the making, the

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complete story of America's Bloody is present. I'm Jim Chapman,

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and today I'm going to bring you the story of

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Warren Harris Junior, who was known as the French Quarter Stabber.

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So in nineteen seventy seven, headlines were being dominated in

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the city of New Orleans after a string of killings

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within a twenty mile radius of the popular French Quarter.

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All of these killings were brutal stabbing deaths, and all

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of them were near strip clubs or jazz parlors in

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the area. The victims were all single men, there were

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no signs of fourth entry into their homes, and three

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of the four known victims were gay. It began on

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Valentine's Day, February fourteenth of nineteen seventy seven, when a

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forty seven year old man by the name of Robert

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Gary was found stabbed to death in his apartment in

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the French Quarter in New Orleans. The Orleans Parish Corners

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Office performed an anal swab and results were positive for

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the presence of sperm, which indicated a sexual assault, so

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police they start investigating that. And while that investigation was

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going on, just a little over a month later, on

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March twenty first of nineteen seventy seven, thirty eight year

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old Jack Savelle was found stabbed to death at his apartment.

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This was on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans, and Jack

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worked for the very popular Warlines for Music, which was

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a music store in New Orleans that supplied band instruments

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as well as they supplied instructors for music. And he

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was an advertising rep there. And this guy was really

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well known in the area. New Orleans known for its music, right,

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so everybody knew this guy as a really good, decent

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human being. Now, a neighbor noticed his apartment door open

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and found Savelle stabbed to death. He had also been

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sexually assaulted, but Jack was not robbed. Both an undisclosed

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amount of money and a valuable camera were left untouched

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in that home and he was only stabbed once, but

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that stab wound was with a twelve inch kitchen knife,

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and police were able to determine that this stabbing took

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place between midnight and two am, so they're on the

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case right And less than two weeks after that incident,

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on April first of nineteen seventy seven, fifty nine year

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old Alden Delano was found stabbed to death in his apartment.

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This was on Rural Street in New Orleans. He was

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found around seven thirty am and he was crouched in

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a kneeling position on his living room floor. He was

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not wearing a shirt nor underwear, and it appeared he

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had been sexually assaulted as well. Alden's pockets were turned

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inside out and his apartment was ransacked, and he was

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also stabbed with a kitchen knife. And when police looked

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into Alden's background, they discovered something that kind of shocked them.

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Alden also worked for Worleans Music as a piano teacher,

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which is the same place that Jack worked. Right stabbings

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less than two weeks apart, both killed in the same way.

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Police knew they had a problem and that these killings

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were likely related, and it was shortly thereafter that another

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friend and coworker of both Jack's and Aldens was interviewed

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by reporters and he stated that he had been threatened

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on the telephone by a man who said quote he

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too was marked for death. He quoted the caller saying

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Jack was number one, mister Delano was number two, and

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you are going to be number three. So now police

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they really step up their investigation. But the killer wasn't

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going to wait for that. Just a day later, on

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April seventh of nineteen seventy seven, a man by the

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name of Ernest Pomier was found stabbed to death with

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fifty stab wounds at his ground floor apartment on Governor

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Nickel Street in New Orleans. And Ernest was a very

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well hit elderly man. He was seventy seven years old.

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Neighbors would say he would sit on the sidewalk in

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front of his apartment in a folding chair and he

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would just play with his dog. He was just a

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very cheerful person, according to neighbors. His landlord is the

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one who found him, and he was also found in

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a crouched kneeling position. He had stab wounds in his back,

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his neck, his arms, and even his head. And Ernest

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as well wore no underwear and his pants were pulled down. Now, surprisingly,

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when the corner performed the autopsy, he determined that Ernest

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was not sexually assaulted. But outside of that, he fit

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the description of all the other killings except for one

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distinct thing. Unlike the other victims, Ernest was not gay.

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And it really threw police kind of curveball because up

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to this point, all of the victims they were finding

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that they could tie to one person were homosexuals, and

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police were thinking that these were hate crimes. But now

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you've got a guy that is straight. He's elderly, so

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he's nowhere near the same age as all the other victims,

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and yet he's killed as well. It's almost like police

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had to go completely back to the drawing board. Now,

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by this time, the media had picked this up in

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full force. It was on all the papers. This is

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before social media, y'all, so it was news reports, newspapers,

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that's where you got information. And these killings were everywhere

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in South Louisiana being placed on the news and in newspapers,

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and it was affecting tourism in New Orleans, which the

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mayor wasn't happy about, so he starts pressuring the police, Hey,

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we got to find out who's doing this. As a

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matter of fact, residents of New Orleans would say they

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had never seen the French Quarter so deserted. Now in

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the meantime, on April thirteenth of nineteen seventy seven, just

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a week after Ernest was killed, a sixteen year old

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by the name of Warren Harris Junior was arrested in

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front of let's call it, a low rent motel, which

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was located about five blocks from the French Quarter. And

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when police arrested him, he was attempting to rob and

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stab a tourist, and of course he's immediately placed in

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the Orleans Parish jail and he's charged with arm robbery

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and attempted murder of that tourist. So police interview him

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in Warren Harris. During these interviews, it comes out to

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believes that he is not a fan of homosexuals. As

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a matter of fact, he was described as having a

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revulsion to homosexuals, and police started pressing him on if

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he knew anything about the French Quarter stabbings, and he

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subsequently confesses to four of the murders that had occurred

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in the last two months in New Orleans. So before

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we go any further, let me tell you a little

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bit about the history of Warren Harris Junior. He was

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born in New Orleans in nineteen sixty one, and he

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was raised by his mother and maternal grandfather, and his

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grandfather was a very well respected Baptist minister in New Orleans.

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And he had five other siblings, but kind of a

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rough childhood. He got in trouble a lot in his

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younger days. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade,

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and even before the age of sixteen when he was

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arrested Minji, he had already been in trouble for per snatching,

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petty theft in other crimes. However, in nineteen seventy four,

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police caught up to him after he tried to steal

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a car, and at the time of this car theft,

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he was only thirteen years old and he was incarcerated

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in a youth institution in New Orleans for a while

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for that crime. So that's a little history on him

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prior to this arrus. There's not much more history than

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that because he's only sixteen at this point, but he

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does indeed confess to these four murders, and he gets

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charged in the killing of Robert Gary Jack savall Al

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Dea Delano in Ernest Pomier. Now, even at the age

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of sixteen, Warren Harris Junior was living on his own

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and he was living at the time with a transsexual

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and that transsexual came out in papers and she said, no,

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he don't hate homosexuals, because if he did, why didn't

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he kill me. Now, shortly after he was charged, Harris

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appeared for a hearing with a magistrate judge and it's

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at that point that the sixteen year old tells the judge,

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I can't afford a lawyer. So he gets a court

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appointed attorney by the name of John Lawrence to represent him,

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and he's ordered to be held without bond, And as

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is typical, at his hearing, he pleaded not guilty to

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the murder chargers. You're not gonna plead guilty to four murders.

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You have nothing to gain by doing that unless you

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can work out some sort of deal. At the time,

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and the defense attorneys they do what they do. The

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first thing, they tried to say he was mentally incompetent,

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to stay in trial, which is very typical when confessions

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are involved. The problem for Warren Harris Junior's defense team

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was he confessed. Of course, they then focused on those confessions,

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and incidentally, they were signed by Warren Harris Junior, and

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the attorneys tried to say the police interrogated him for

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ten to fifteen hours to get those confessions, that they

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wouldn't allow his mother to see him or be present

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for the confessions, etc. Anything they can do to get

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those confessions off the table, but none of that will work.

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Then Harris Junior creates a story that he was forced

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into signing these confessions under dores. He said that the

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police threatened to kill him if he did not sign them.

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It was later determined that that was bullshit and the

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judge denied the attorney's motion to throw that confession out.

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So on May thirty first of nineteen seventy seven, three

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psychiatrists who examined Warri's Harris Junior, they tell the judge

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that he indeed understands the charges against him, and so

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there goes that incompetency defense that they were trying to

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mount for Warren Harris Junior. So the trial starts in

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October of nineteen seventy seven. In some of the notable

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events that took place at the trial, officers said that

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Harris made oral statements about all four stabbings and that

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that's why they charged him. Harris initially claimed to be

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a witness at Delano's death. He said that a man

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nicknamed Cliff had done the killings, but the detective testified

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when he was pressed for details that Harris just spontaneously

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came forth and said Cliff didn't do it. I did it.

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That statement was signed by Harris, and in it he

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said Delano struck up a conversation with him on the

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bus and asked him if he would help in moving

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some furniture. Harris then went to his house, and Harris

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said he offered me a beer and I took that beer.

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I was involved in a sex act with mister Delano,

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and he gave me ten dollars and I left. The

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statement said Delano invited Harris to return whenever he wanted to,

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and Harris said that he returned three times and killed

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Delano on that final visit. When quote, he tried to

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force me to do something that I did not want

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to do. He tried to rape me. Pathologist doctor Paul McGary.

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He testified at the trial that he found seventy eight

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stab wounds seventy eight when he examined the body of

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Ernest Pormier. He testified that the stab wounds were made

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by at least two different weapons, one with a thin

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blade in the other with a broad blade. Other medical

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experts also testified, and they said that two of the

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other men were killed with a single stab wound, while

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a third was stabbed three times. A witness testified at

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the trial of seeing someone run past her the night

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of Pormier's death. She said, I saw the flash of

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the blade of a knife. It was a very long knife.

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It seemed to be a foot to a foot and

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a half long. When asked if she saw the person

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with the knife in court, she pointed out Warrenhirs Junior

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and said he appears to be the same person I

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saw run past me. Now, despite the defense objections, oral

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and written confessions were red in court. In the confession

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to the murder of Delano, Harris said he tried to

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rape me. I ran into the kitchen and I got

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a knife and I quote jugged him. I thought he

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was still alive. So I put a pillow over his head.

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Harris claimed in court that Pormier tried to rape him,

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and remember Pormier was the only victim, y'all that was

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not sexually assaulted. Harris said, he tried to rape me,

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and I jugged him. He did the same thing that

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Delano did, and I killed him. So the defense continued

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to claim that Harris was forced to sign confessions after

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hours of intense questioning. Then Harris took the stand in

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his own defense and he told the court that he

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was threatened by a detective to confess or he would

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quote take me off and shoot me in the head

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and throw me in the river. Ten policemen were brought

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into the court room and lined up, and Harris picked

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out the six that made threats to him at that point,

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and prosecutors claimed privately that Harris had picked out different

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off during an identical lineup during a hearing just a

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few months prior. Prosecutors alleged that Harris was a sex

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worker who committed the murders after having sex with his victim,

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and Harris was convicted of murdering three of the four men.

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The state court jury recommended life in prison without the

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possibility of parole or probation, and the jury of seven

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men and five women deliberated just two hours and twenty

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five minutes before convicting Harris of three of the murders.

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The assistant DA actually asked for the death penalty, but

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the defense attorney, of course recommended life, and he cited

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Harris's age and mental records as reasoning for that. Now,

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Harris was acquitted of murdering Robert Gary. The jury just

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felt there wasn't enough evidence to place Harris at the

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scene of that crime. But he was convicted of the

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murder of Jack saval Alden Delano and Ernest Pormi. So

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on November seventeenth of nineteen seventy seven, Harris was sentenced

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to three consecutive life sentences. And remember he's only sixteen

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years old. So right out the gate, he goes to

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Orleans Parish Prison, and he's not exactly what you'd call

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a model prisoner. As a matter of fact, on July

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of nineteen seventy nine, Harris gets indicted for some trouble

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while in prison. And I'm going to reference a quick

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article by the Daily Advertiser, and this was written on

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July twentieth of nineteen seventy nine, and it reads a

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convicted murderer who prayed on homosexuals has been indicted on

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charges of raping another inmate at the Orleans Parish Prison.

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Warren Harris Junior, dubbed the French quarter Stabber when he

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was sentenced two years ago to three life sentences, is

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charged with four counts of aggravated crimes against nation tature

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in three counts of aggravated rape. He was seventeen years

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old when he was convicted of the killings, including the

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murder of an elderly man who was stabbed seventy eight

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times with a kitchen knife. Harris and two other inmates

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are accused of sexually assaulting a fellow inmate serving a

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one year sentence for aggravated battery. Also indicted by Pears

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Grand jury were Lionel Hooks, thirty three, and Kevin Dimaningus,

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who was twenty so raping a man doing a short

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stint in prison after he sentenced to prison tells you

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a lot. And Harris eventually makes his way to Bloody

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in Gola, and he's a juvenile lifer, And as we've

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discussed in the past, the law pertaining to juvenile lifers

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changed where if juveniles were sentenced to life in prison

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when no parole, they at least got a chance at

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parole once that law changed. So in twenty twenty one,

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Warren Harris Junior, who's a convicted serial killer by any

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definition you can find, he gets resentenced and his resentence

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is life with the possibility of parole. Now, this new

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law stipulated if you were sentenced to life with no parole,

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you had to serve at least twenty five years and

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had to earn you ged, and if you had no

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major disciplinary actions for at least a year, you would

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get your parole. Shot. Doesn't mean you're going to get parole,

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but you get a shot at it. And in twenty

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twenty three, Harris does earn his ged on his six

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attem and at that point in time he had been

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disciplined free for seven years. So I'm going to reference

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an article for you from CNN. This is dated April

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twenty seventh of twenty twenty four, and you're not gonna

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believe what you're about to hear. He directed his remar

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to the families of the three men he robbed and

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fatally stabbed when he was sixteen and high on heroin

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in New Orleans. Sitting at a table in the Louisiana

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State Penitentiary, Harris, now sixty three, talked in a video

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conference about the guilt that has gripped him while serving

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life in prison at Angola. Family members of his victims

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were not at the April seventeenth hearing. Quote. I have

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a few nephews, Harris said during the hearing with the

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pearole Board. I have one I constantly pray for, and

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I wish to reach him before anything happens to him,

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or before he winds up in prison. Not just him,

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maybe a few of his friends. You know. It was

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an apology forty seven years in the making. The murders

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happened during an eight week span from February to April

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of nineteen seventy seven. Fear spread in New Orleans that

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a serial killer was targeting gay men in the French Quarter,

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where officers on horseback were put on patrol around strip

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joints and jazz club on Bourbon Street. Quote. It was

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a very horrific crime. But I do feel that you've

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done all you can do in Angola. That from parole

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Board member Curtis Pete Freeman Junior, a former state director

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on Probation in Parole, who provided the critical second vote

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needed for Harris's release. Harris White tears from behind his glasses.

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He's now among the roughly one hundred and twenty one

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juvenile lifers to be granted release via a parole hearing

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or negotiating resolution with prosecutors since a twenty seventeen law

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made them eligible after serving twenty five years. Under the law,

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a juvenile lifeer resentenced and offered parole eligibility must obtain

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a ged, spend a year without major disciplinary write ups,

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and meet other requirements. In twenty twelve, Miller versus Alabama,

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the High Court ruled life sentences for juvenile offenders without

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the possibility of parole violated the Eighth Amendments ban on

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cruel and unusual punishment. The court relied on research showing

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that young people are scientifically different from adults, their brains

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and self control not fully developed. In Montgomery versus Louisiana

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in twenty sixteen, the Supreme Court made the Miller decision retroactive.

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After the Montgomery decision. In twenty sixteen, some two hundred

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and ninety seven Louisiana prisoners were eligible for resentencing. According

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to Hannah van Decar, deputy Legal director of the Louisiana

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Center for Childer's Rights, about one hundred and fifty of

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them are still incarcerated. At least eighteen of the two

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hundred and ninety seven died behind bars before the hearings.

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Van Decor said. The United States is the only nation

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that sentence people to life without parole for crimes committed

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before eighteen, according to The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit that

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studies inequities in the criminal justice system. Harris was a

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teenager when police arrested him in a motel room after

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receiving a tip. He was indicted on four counts of

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first degree murder in nineteen seventy seven. According to a

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summary of the nineteen eighty appeal of his eventual conviction

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on three of the counts, the victims lived alone within

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a seven or eight block stretch of the French Quarter.

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Harris met them on bus or on the streets. The

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State Supreme Court upheld his conviction, ruling in part that

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Harris's confessions, which he said were made under duress after

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officers threatened him, were freely involuntarily made. At the April

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parole hearing, board member Steve Prater, a former Shreeport police

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officer and Caddo Pears sheriff, told Harris's crime seemed quote

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almost like a serial killer unquote very astute Cato Paars sheriff.

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With my background, that's what it sounds like. So what

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was the mo of this serial killer? Prater asked, before

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voting to keep Harris in prison.

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I was in need of money to support that drug

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the drugs I was using at the time, said Harris,

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a sheaf of papers on the table in front of

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I was becoming affiliated with some of the victims and

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was asked to accompany them to their home. And at

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the time when we entered the home, I robbed and

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killed those men and I regret it. I am so

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sorry every day. Parole board member Jerry Lddeaux, who voted

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in favor of parole, told Harris that before her decisions,

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she often asked herself, would I be afraid to live

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next door to this person? I believe you're ready for

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the streets, she said, and that blew my freaking mind.

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You wouldn't be afraid to live next to a serial killer?

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Miss Ludeaux. At one point, she asked, I want to

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hear in your own words, mister Harris, why should we

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consider letting you out? And he said, quote, I have

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rehabilitated myself. God has allowed me to reevaluate my wife

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and set out on a positive course. He said he

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stopped being around negative individuals in prison. At Angola, Harris

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has become a prison trustee inmates, entrusted with certain jobs

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and responsibilities, and has not been written up for discipline

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since twenty seventeen. He learned landscaping and other trades, earned

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his ged and completed substance abuse courses. He is a

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member of a gospel band as well as the Pure

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Heart Messengers singing group. According to testimony at the hearing,

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and it just goes on to discuss some other things

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that were said at the parole hearing that you absolutely

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got to hear. And I actually have that parole board

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hearing that I'm going to play for you. But there

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you have it. In April of last year, a legit

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serial killer was parolled from Louisiana State Penitentiary to Angola.

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Now my thoughts, honestly, I was shocked. This wasn't one

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of those situations where this guy lost his shit on

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PCP killed someone and it was totally out of character

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for this guy. It occurred when you know the persons

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fifteen or sixteen, and it was a one off. And

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not that any of that is good, and not that

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those be don't deserve to stay in prison, but you're

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talking about a guy that killed at least three people,

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likely four, possibly more via stabbing them to death, which

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is a brutal and emotion filled type of killing. So

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it goes to jail for it, and while in prison,

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rapes another inmate and catches yet another charge. I don't

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know what eventually happened with that charge, but he was

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sure charged with it. It's just insane for me to

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think he gets out of prison ever, just my opinion.

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Now peris parole conditions. He's going to remain under supervision

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for the rest of his life, meaning he'll have a

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parole officer he has to report to. But this one

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boggles my mind. So what were they thinking? Well, I

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want to be fair here, so in this clip you're

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gonna here from both Warren Hairs Junior as well as

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the parole board. And here it is in full that

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parole board where Warren Hairs Junior was released from present

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mit tires.

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I'm gonna read some information for the record. Please stop

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and correct me if you think anything is wrong. Okay, sir, yes, okay.

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First off, you've said your name and your DOC number.

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You are serving a life sentence on three murders. You

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were sentenced in nineteen seventy seven to life sentence and

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at the time I think you were sixteen year oo. Yes, sir,

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I was okay, all right, Your case today has been

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signed to miss Le Duke. Please answer any records that

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she may have will questions, ma'am.

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Mister Harris. I don't know that I've seen anyone as

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diligent to try to get their GED as you have been.

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How many times have you taken the GED class the.

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Testing, ma'am?

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It has been maybe three or four times.

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Yeah, and you worked hard to get that. You just

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received that last.

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Year, yes, ma'am.

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So, mister Harris, you were a juvenile lifer and were

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you resentenced or were you just given parole? Do you

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have to go back to court to be resentenced?

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I was recentenced, just ma'am.

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And in what year was that?

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I believe in twenty two ma'am, I'm not certain. You

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may have speak of my attorney concerning that.

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I would like to, Yes, ma'am, would you affirm what

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they as were sentenced.

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Twenty twenty one? I relieved it was in.

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That's okay, just the year's fine, twenty one. That's the

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reason I'm asking that question is because although you've had

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one hundred and twenty eight write.

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Ups, yes, ma'am, it's.

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When occurred in seventeen. Yes, ma'am, it was four years

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before you knew you had an opportunity maybe to get out.

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Is that correct, yes, ma'am.

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So what happened? What flipped the switch in seventeen? Finally,

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why did you stop having problems in prison in twenty seventeen?

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I stopped.

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I stopped being around negative individuals now and allowed myself

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to only affiliate with positive individuals who were doing positive things.

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I engaged in my fellowship regularly. That took up most

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of my time.

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Well, I note that you did get involved in faith

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based activities around.

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That time, yes, ma'am. I have you.

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Started engaging in a lot of the opportunities in that

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particular subculture of the prison, the faith community.

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That's, ma'am. I come from Christian background. My family has

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always been spiritual believers, and I continue, well, are.

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You restarted, because it looks like you weren't in the

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right track for many years there.

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I was not. No, I was not, ma'am.

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I read the background of the case itself be heinous crime.

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Yes, ma'am.

463
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I take full responsibility now, I really do, and I

464
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:17.920
regret that that had ever happened.

465
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:25.880
So you have taken victim awareness, yes, ma'am, I have.

466
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.640
I want to hear in your own words, mister Harris,

467
00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:37.519
why should we consider letting you out.

468
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:41.759
I have.

469
00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:49.759
Rehabilitated myself. God has allowed me to re evaluate my

470
00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:53.440
life and set out on a positive course. That positive

471
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:59.480
course had led me to obtain several certificates and healthcare

472
00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:09.400
provider uh. I'm skilled in landscaping as various other UH trades, janitorial,

473
00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:15.359
uh HU and uh at present. I am an academic

474
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:21.920
genius the literacy too, and I feel that I will

475
00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:26.640
be able to contribute to society in which the community

476
00:32:26.759 --> 00:32:33.000
I will live given the opportunity.

477
00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:36.640
Were you personally aware of any of your victims or

478
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:38.319
where these chants happening?

479
00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:43.079
Do you know I wasn't I wasn't familiar with any Oh, man,

480
00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:52.640
I was not, uh record.

481
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:57.680
It indicates that you haven't had family visits. But I

482
00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:04.720
do see that you have your sister and a niece,

483
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:09.880
so you've been having pretty often at the ma'am.

484
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:16.039
Only only when only when they are able to Uh,

485
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:22.519
my baby sister whenever she cad she's here. My niece

486
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:26.480
whenever she's whenever she is available and has the time,

487
00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:27.559
she would come.

488
00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:42.839
Also, Oh, what is what is your greatest challenge looking

489
00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:47.119
at possible parole? What is? Do you have any concerns

490
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:49.400
or what is your greatest concern if you get out?

491
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:50.920
Ma'am.

492
00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:51.279
I have.

493
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:57.519
A few nephews. I have one that I constantly pray for,

494
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:03.920
and I wish theresia before it didn't happened to him,

495
00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:06.920
or before he winds up in prison. Not just him,

496
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:10.760
maybe a few of his friends, you know, I would

497
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:19.239
like to reach him.

498
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:19.760
I may.

499
00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:22.119
I'm going to reserve the right to come back and

500
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.679
ask more questions later, but at this time, mister Freeman,

501
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:27.079
I'm gonna run it back up.

502
00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:29.559
Mister do you have any questions?

503
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:34.639
Yes, sir, mister Harris, yes, you planned or you were

504
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:39.480
found guilty of killing three were those at different times.

505
00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:42.159
Tell me about the time in between.

506
00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:44.400
The it was different times?

507
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:47.719
How long was it between each one? I'm trying to

508
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:52.039
understand the crime. I don't came back to glory details.

509
00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:57.599
According to the records, it was from February thirteen, I

510
00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:01.159
believe until April six, I believe.

511
00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:06.480
Okay, So the length of time of what And there

512
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:09.599
was a fourth a fourth murder?

513
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:11.000
Did you commit that one?

514
00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:11.159
To you?

515
00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:14.440
I was proud, not guilty. I was froud, not guilty,

516
00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:20.000
sir okay?

517
00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.159
Did these all take place at the same.

518
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:30.679
Place, the same area, within the same area, sir okay.

519
00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:40.199
And I'm trying to distinguish and and find out.

520
00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:46.800
It's it sounded almost like a serial killer, Okay. I

521
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:50.039
mean that's with my background, that's what it sounds like.

522
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:53.559
So what was the mo of this serial killer?

523
00:35:54.320 --> 00:36:00.360
I understand, Uh, I was a young juvenile teenage sense

524
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:05.320
of direction, that high school dropout, swalling, all kinds of

525
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:10.639
pills and everything you could think of at that time.

526
00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:19.679
Yeah, And I just sorry it happened.

527
00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:23.719
Mhm.

528
00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:26.239
I just wasn't in the right state of mind, sir.

529
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:30.039
Yes, I mean, did you did you set this up?

530
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:33.440
Set these murders up? In order to rob the people.

531
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.360
It wasn't it was not a set up. It was

532
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:39.400
not a set up at all.

533
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.760
Then why would you why didn't you?

534
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:52.840
I was in need of money to support that drug

535
00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:54.920
the drugs I was using at the time.

536
00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:56.159
Uh h.

537
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:03.800
I I became affiliated.

538
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:11.760
With some of the victims you know, and was asked

539
00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:19.960
to accompany accompany them to their home, and at the time.

540
00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:29.239
When we entered the home, I robbed and killed those

541
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:35.000
men and I regret it. I'm so sorry every day.

542
00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:36.079
I regret.

543
00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:42.519
That's all without here, Thank you, Miss Terris.

544
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:47.599
Okay, mister, I have one question. What what have you

545
00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:51.239
done to address your drug problem that you've been in ango.

546
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:59.360
I have taken a drug courses living in balance? Uh

547
00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:00.679
still one and two?

548
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:03.760
All right?

549
00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:08.719
Uh you get out, sir? Do you plan on following

550
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:12.480
up when you if you work, Yes, sir, I will

551
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:18.880
certainly follow up, and I'm sure mister Myers or I

552
00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:23.360
have some stuff to say about that when he speaks. Okay,

553
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:29.920
I have no further questions. Uh So now we will

554
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:32.400
go to the family.

555
00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:34.639
First. ROBERTA.

556
00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:38.440
Harris, sister in law. Okay, you want to speak first.

557
00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:44.119
I just wanted you go up after the podium name.

558
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:48.639
He had Warren.

559
00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:52.920
I am his sister in law. I met Warren through

560
00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:57.559
his brother, David. I'm married to David. Met Warren in

561
00:38:57.639 --> 00:38:58.599
seventy six.

562
00:38:58.440 --> 00:38:59.719
When brother and I.

563
00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:06.000
When I met Warren, he was this kind and gentle person.

564
00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:09.360
He stayed right next door to the grandmother, Miss Julia,

565
00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:13.159
and Warren was always kicking care. He looked out for

566
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:15.920
He made sure she had everything. He made sure his

567
00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:18.840
mother had everything. He made sure his siblings had everything.

568
00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:24.679
But like he's admitted, the drugs that he got over

569
00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:27.320
hold up to, it just did something to his mind

570
00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:30.719
to just make him do things out of the ordinary.

571
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:34.079
But he was raised in a Christian family. His grandfather

572
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:36.360
wasn't being a Sai mother saying the choir.

573
00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:39.039
They were white church on Punde.

574
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:41.599
I like to say a month he got out into

575
00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:44.480
the into the streets and the drugs and got a

576
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:47.480
hold of his minding. His brain dropped out, and then

577
00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:51.199
we just don't know what happened from there, but we

578
00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:51.880
still love it.

579
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:59.320
Okay, thank you, ma'am, thank you. Okay, uh mister carry mine.

580
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:06.880
Good morning, Kerry Myers with Louisiana Parole Project. This board

581
00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:12.400
already knows mister Harris was sixteen years old, addicted, had

582
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:17.440
been addicted for some time before he committed these crimes.

583
00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:22.039
We also know that the sixteen year olds and an

584
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:25.920
addiction can lead to some horrible consequences. We know why

585
00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:30.519
the brain science says that to juveniles are different. But

586
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:34.760
mister Harris, I think miss Leeduce said it correctly. Seven

587
00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:39.719
years ago. The light completely clicked on before he knew

588
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:44.239
he was going to be parole eligible, and he rededicated

589
00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:48.599
his life spiritually. He worked very hard on his ged

590
00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:54.480
his programs. Mister Harris is now not a sixteen year

591
00:40:54.519 --> 00:40:57.760
old addicted child. He is a sixty four year old

592
00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:00.800
man who has served forty six years for these crimes.

593
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:04.199
He has a support system. One of the things that

594
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:08.880
will happen immediately address any concerns that you may have

595
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:13.239
about that, mister Freeman, is he will get an evaluation

596
00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:16.119
of substance abuse of and mental health evaluation from our

597
00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:20.679
social work staff and we'll make sure that any recommendations

598
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:25.440
are followed through that. Not only that after forty six

599
00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:28.360
years at from a sixteen year old now to a

600
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:33.079
sixty four year old man, he's going to need the

601
00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:37.719
type of services that we can provide that, in essence,

602
00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:42.920
detoxification from the institutionalization that he's been involved in for

603
00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:47.079
the last forty six years. And that's what our program

604
00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:52.400
is absolutely geared to do. Will He will learn technology,

605
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:57.840
He will in steps, he will learn social norms which

606
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:01.960
are certainly different from when he entered prison. He will

607
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:06.679
have the ability to continue to access our social or department.

608
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:07.320
Uh.

609
00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:11.239
He will learn financial management. He is employed, he is

610
00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:15.199
still healthy, he is still employable, he has employment waiting

611
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:21.599
for him. His sister has offered him housing and has

612
00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:25.639
been supportive throughout this time. We're here to help him

613
00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:27.800
through that for as long as it needs to be

614
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:33.559
and once he's completed our program, mister Harris has a

615
00:42:33.719 --> 00:42:37.559
has a strong support system. So we would just ask

616
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:40.239
this board to consider the fact that you know, he

617
00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:44.039
is not the sixteen year old addicted child that committed

618
00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:50.400
these crimes regardless. Uh, it's it's you can't minimize any

619
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:55.639
of the actions. They were horrific, but this is the

620
00:42:55.679 --> 00:42:58.920
whole capacity to grow and mature is the reason we're

621
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:01.800
here today. And so we as this boy to consider

622
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:04.480
all these factors today in making their decision.

623
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:14.840
Before I go to the subject and the lawyer wag Kalvu.

624
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:19.119
Do you have any comments you would like to make, Yes, sir,

625
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:19.639
good morning.

626
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:23.960
Uh, you know you were talking about the history of

627
00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:25.599
Warren Record.

628
00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:27.480
And yeah, at one time.

629
00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:30.199
He did have a class I say trustee's status.

630
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:33.199
He worked in beautification for us outside the Fences for

631
00:43:33.559 --> 00:43:37.239
eight years, then fifteen lost at on a write up

632
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:40.639
at that other write up in seventeen he's worked his

633
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:44.320
way back up to a class A again when he

634
00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:47.719
did back in twenty seventeen, works his way back up

635
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:52.639
to a men be. His job was a union supply sockware.

636
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:57.119
Of course in the warehouse he was responsible for a

637
00:43:57.239 --> 00:44:00.440
lot of inventory that was worth a lot of money.

638
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:04.880
And those jobs or jobs that we will put inmate

639
00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:08.519
skins that we can trust to the degree of even

640
00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:11.360
with oversight, that they're going to do a good job

641
00:44:11.400 --> 00:44:12.000
for us.

642
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:13.360
And he did that.

643
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:19.639
Until eighteen when he went into the full time GED

644
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:23.480
and so I think he was six times in.

645
00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:27.239
His ge attempts and finally there and now he's a tutor.

646
00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:32.119
So yeah, he definitely in seventeen, as you guys stated,

647
00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:35.480
has done a good job in turning that corner and

648
00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:41.760
maintained his process and give the projections where.

649
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:44.079
He is now, so his focus has changed.

650
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:47.599
Thank you boy.

651
00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:57.679
Sure, okay, mister Harris, would you like to make us statement? Yes, sir, ma'am,

652
00:44:57.800 --> 00:45:03.079
this Palmer has spoken pos Catholic. Had his speaker seek, no,

653
00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:06.039
we hadn't. Ms Palmer, would you like to.

654
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:10.039
Speak, yes, sir, Thank you so much for this opportunity.

655
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:14.079
Yes, ma'am, good morning.

656
00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:21.920
I'm Warren Harris baby's sister, and we all were disobedient,

657
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:26.679
so our mother and our grandparents coming up. I was

658
00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:32.760
pregnant at fourteen, I was a grandmother at forty and

659
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:40.320
throughout the years we all have turned our lives around

660
00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:44.360
and went back to the foundation on which we were

661
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:48.440
brought up on, and that was the foundation of Jesus Christ.

662
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:54.840
I have seen Warren grow throughout the years we all

663
00:45:54.920 --> 00:46:00.280
were in prison, those forty seven years with Warren. Like

664
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.639
I said, we were all disobedient as children, and I

665
00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:09.159
got pregnant. I was smoking weed. I was inn abusive

666
00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:13.880
relationship with my children's father. But throughout the years we

667
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:17.760
stayed connected. I had been going to the prison since

668
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:21.320
I was four years old. Our father was in jail

669
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:25.400
since twenty eight. Our mother was abandoned by her first

670
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:28.880
husband and then abused by our father, which was in

671
00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:32.320
jail for twenty eight years. Then Warren he's been in

672
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:35.199
there for forty six and out my other brother he's

673
00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:38.800
been back and forth for fifteen years. So we've all

674
00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:41.800
returned back to the foundation on which we were brought

675
00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:46.559
up on. Thank God for that. I've seen Warren mature.

676
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:50.920
He's helped me throughout the years. I've sent photos when

677
00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:55.920
photos were accepted. I've sent money throughout the years, visits

678
00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:58.519
throughout the years when our mother was living. Now that

679
00:46:58.599 --> 00:47:03.920
she's gone. Now I'm a great grandmother at the age

680
00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:09.559
of sixty. So Warren has been like a father uncle

681
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:15.440
to my children, my grandchildren, and we lean on each other.

682
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:18.159
When I go and visit. I don't just go to

683
00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:22.159
visit him, go because I need him. He's been a

684
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:25.559
support to me with the JEDP and the emails. He

685
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:30.519
encourages me. He sends me letters and prayers throughout the

686
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:34.440
and so I'm here to be here for him till

687
00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:38.199
the day God calls us all home. I've seen the

688
00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:44.599
change in all of us, how we've changed our lives

689
00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:50.119
and living the way our parents really intended us to live.

690
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:56.280
But I think you offer this opportunity, and I think

691
00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:01.599
my parents for raising us up in this faith.

692
00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:08.159
Based because thirty seven years ago this opportunity was not possible.

693
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:12.840
But we prayed and asked God to forgive us of

694
00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:16.639
our sins and to have mercy upon us, to pity

695
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:22.039
us and spare us. And so this day He has

696
00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:25.400
made this day possible. And I thank you for the

697
00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:28.400
hope of it, and I thank you for the joy

698
00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:29.960
and just the confirmation.

699
00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:39.199
Thank you, bam, appreciate it.

700
00:48:40.239 --> 00:48:45.920
H Okay, it's uh Florusca.

701
00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:50.559
You're ready, Yes, ma'am.

702
00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:52.840
Perhaps you wanted one to speak first.

703
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:57.440
Listen, however y'all want to do it. Usually the inmate

704
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:00.000
speaks first, so it's up to you.

705
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:01.119
Is your hairs speak? Curse?

706
00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:10.440
Okay, mister Harris, your attorning you speak.

707
00:49:11.599 --> 00:49:15.920
Thank you for allowing me this opportunity this morning I

708
00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:18.760
have I now have the opportunity to address this of

709
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:20.880
all family, Farmer family.

710
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:23.360
And a Dlago family.

711
00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:27.400
This matter should have been addressed years ago, but because

712
00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:30.599
of matters, concern and contact, I was not able to

713
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:36.400
do so. To each family members of the victims, I

714
00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:44.840
sincerely apologize for taking the lives of your loved one.

715
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:48.840
I'm truly sorry and regret what had happened forty six

716
00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:54.039
years ago. Your family has suffered many years missing someone

717
00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:59.199
very special who has been taken away from you. I'm

718
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:06.719
truly sorrow. During my years of incarceration, guilty finish has

719
00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:12.039
gripped me deeply. My guilt has motivated me to call

720
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:17.840
out to God, asking for his help for change within myself.

721
00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:24.320
My prayer had been asked. God allowed me to reevaluate

722
00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:28.840
my life and set me out on a positive course.

723
00:50:31.079 --> 00:50:35.920
I become a servant the very given my time and

724
00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:43.840
the very little resources I have, helping those who cannot

725
00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:50.119
help themselves. I continue praying, asking God to give me

726
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:54.360
the ability and to continue to allow me to be

727
00:50:54.440 --> 00:51:01.280
a positive influence to those around me. I'm truly sorry

728
00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:07.320
and regret the offense I had committed. I apologize to

729
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:14.360
the community, but these crimes were committed. I'm very sorry

730
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:19.960
and very remonst I appreciate this opportunity that has been

731
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:20.440
given me.

732
00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:27.320
Thank you God, bless you, Thank you well. Now I'm

733
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:33.360
just lor sca good warnam.

734
00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:37.280
My name is Abigail Floresca and I'm a student attorney

735
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:42.440
at Little Low Lack It representing mister Warren Harriss. In

736
00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:48.880
nineteen seventy seven, mister Harris committed devastating for whole crimes,

737
00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:52.519
taking the lives of multiple men and striking fear and

738
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:57.320
pain throughout the community. As you've heard today, mister Harris

739
00:51:57.360 --> 00:52:01.400
is deep remorseful and a shame to his crimes, and

740
00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:04.400
he's carried that remorse with him every day for forty

741
00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:08.880
six years. Aim these forty six years, he's channeled that

742
00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:12.719
morpse and you're processing the armed you caused and becoming

743
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:16.599
with mature sixty three year old in the athletist now today,

744
00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:20.840
I know the board is well known of more versus bottomly,

745
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.639
how even children who commit Haines crimes still have the

746
00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:32.079
capacity to change. Mister Harris is truly the mosonification of

747
00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:38.119
that ability to change his life. Shows that our children

748
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:43.719
are removed from abuse, drugs, violence and dysfunction, they can

749
00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:49.440
become totally different. Sixteen year old one Brianna streets and

750
00:52:49.559 --> 00:52:53.920
didn't follow the molds secret. Sixty three year old mister

751
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:57.679
Herricks is a trustee and hasn't kind of right up insidens.

752
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:02.800
Year old Warren did all he could to numb himself

753
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:07.239
with drugs. Sixty three year old mister Harris finds peace

754
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:11.159
and joy from singing and gospel vans at the Transformation

755
00:53:11.360 --> 00:53:15.639
Gospel Bands, Pure Heart Messengers. His favorite song to sing

756
00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:20.760
its Winking Inperiens. Sixteen year old Warren sat in his

757
00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:26.400
grandfather's church nodding off eye on Harold. Sixty three year

758
00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:29.519
old mister Harris's earned forty long certificates for by her

759
00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:33.480
studies and its contributions to the industries such as the

760
00:53:33.559 --> 00:53:39.719
leadership fields. Sixteen year old Warren took the lives of

761
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:44.440
multiple men. Sixty three year old mister Harris takes spherically

762
00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:49.960
eltily and the sick in musts. Sixteen year old Warren

763
00:53:50.079 --> 00:53:52.400
dropped out of the grade and didn't.

764
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:53.760
See a future for himself.

765
00:53:55.079 --> 00:53:59.239
Sixty three year old Winster Harris spent two decades trying

766
00:53:59.239 --> 00:54:02.440
to get its high, and he'd finally earned his plum.

767
00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:06.760
He immediately turned around and became a literacy trigger helped

768
00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:08.199
me others achieve.

769
00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:09.639
The same thing that he did.

770
00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:15.039
Mister Harris has earned a trouble of fifty six certificates

771
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:19.000
for programming and accomplishments. Throughout his stand in prison, he

772
00:54:19.159 --> 00:54:22.199
was dedicated to learning many years before you were past

773
00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:28.920
and what was even impossibility. The Ward has asked about

774
00:54:29.079 --> 00:54:33.880
mister Harris's land for recovery from addition of drugs, given

775
00:54:33.960 --> 00:54:38.920
his history, and mister Harris has recognized that recovery is

776
00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:42.039
a life process and he will always be combat and

777
00:54:42.119 --> 00:54:44.239
it's always seemed to be a part of his life.

778
00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:48.920
But he's willing and ready to draw narcotics, anonymous medians

779
00:54:49.079 --> 00:54:53.039
and any anything else that the Whole Project is also

780
00:54:53.079 --> 00:54:58.280
going to support in with finding those resources. I remmuted

781
00:54:58.519 --> 00:55:04.000
in will packet a list of local narcotics anonymous meetings

782
00:55:04.199 --> 00:55:06.280
in the area where he's going to be with me

783
00:55:11.639 --> 00:55:15.679
should the board rule. Mister Harris has the support of

784
00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:20.639
his family, his friends, and a dual project. As you've heard,

785
00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:22.599
the pro Project is going to help him with the

786
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:26.760
entry and everything that he's going to be meeting navigating

787
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:33.159
coming to the Three worlds after forty six years. His

788
00:55:33.320 --> 00:55:37.559
sister Brenda has supported mister Harris's entire time in prison,

789
00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:43.119
visiting him, supporting him, and she's ready to give back

790
00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:47.039
to as well. Mister Harris is also hoping to give

791
00:55:47.159 --> 00:55:51.239
back as a herd, mentoring his nine grand nieces and nephews,

792
00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:56.559
continuing to sing and worship and doing landscape passion he discovery,

793
00:55:56.599 --> 00:55:59.559
while will striving to make the world around the more

794
00:55:59.599 --> 00:56:03.679
beauth The significance of Miller hearings is that children the

795
00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:06.400
extent the majority of their lives in curser, you have

796
00:56:06.559 --> 00:56:10.039
the opportunity to show the change, and in forty six years,

797
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:14.239
mister Harris has done just that. Today he's a trustee

798
00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:19.039
nan of Faith, literacy tutor and a source of support.

799
00:56:18.679 --> 00:56:21.440
To those who have astro.

800
00:56:21.559 --> 00:56:24.159
Savory wrote, he has a part of the people and

801
00:56:24.199 --> 00:56:26.719
a life that reaches those who see to be unreached.

802
00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:30.679
In light of the person that mister Harris is today,

803
00:56:31.079 --> 00:56:34.159
we urged the honorable Board to bring up closer years.

804
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:36.119
Thank you very much.

805
00:56:39.079 --> 00:56:41.599
Okay, well.

806
00:56:43.039 --> 00:56:47.920
I will vote well, this will do that. You advocation

807
00:56:48.119 --> 00:56:48.960
will vote first.

808
00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:06.760
Their hair is h You have to understand all of

809
00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:13.519
us take this role very very seriously. And I read

810
00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:19.480
all two hundred pages of your of your file several times,

811
00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:24.719
and I have I have gone back and forth on this.

812
00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:34.639
Hearing you today was very insightful. You have a low

813
00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:38.880
risk assessment on the tools that we are provided with.

814
00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:51.599
You have good plans for your release. You have what

815
00:57:51.719 --> 00:57:59.039
I consider adequate institutional educational accomplishments. I can't change what

816
00:57:59.239 --> 00:58:04.360
you have done, but in taking the lines of those people,

817
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:10.280
many times I ask myself before I make a vote,

818
00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:14.159
would I live next door to this person? Would I

819
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:19.239
be afraid to live next door to this person? Mister Harris,

820
00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:22.039
there's still some things in your record that can sern me,

821
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:25.639
some of the write ups that you've had, especially the

822
00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:36.159
twenty ones. I'll be honest, I twenty one. But at

823
00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:43.400
this point, after thirty seven years of incarceration, I believe

824
00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:46.519
that you're ready for the streets. And so my vote

825
00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:50.719
today is to grant parole with the condition that the

826
00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:55.760
par project tuned in very carefully to your needs for

827
00:58:56.039 --> 00:59:00.599
your giving you the tools to make good dess sessions.

828
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:06.679
Okay, so love that is chick aren Okay, thank you,

829
00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:08.239
h mister Pray.

830
00:59:09.159 --> 00:59:13.000
I've heard some very strong arguments and recommendations today, and

831
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:16.320
I flawgm with to harents for your growth and the

832
00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:17.480
accomplishments that.

833
00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:23.400
You've uh that you have accomplished. I think you're truly

834
00:59:23.480 --> 00:59:27.320
repented of what you've done. I think we all have

835
00:59:27.480 --> 00:59:31.280
our mission fields and life. I'm a strong believer in

836
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:38.599
that I truly believe that your mission field is there

837
00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:44.280
at Angola, at Louisiana State's Penitentiary. And it's similar to

838
00:59:45.159 --> 00:59:48.199
I guess in my mind, it's similar to a person

839
00:59:48.280 --> 00:59:53.039
that might smoke and then develop cancer and then quit smoking.

840
00:59:53.639 --> 00:59:56.679
They still have the cancer. They still have to pay

841
00:59:56.719 --> 00:59:59.800
the price for what they did. And so having said

842
00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:03.360
all of that, and considering the fact that you were

843
01:00:03.400 --> 01:00:07.400
giving three life sentences to write consecutively, my vote is

844
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:08.760
to deny.

845
01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:14.559
Okay, thank you. Okay. Uh, you know I looked at this,

846
01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:17.440
mister Tyris in a lot of ways. You were sixteen

847
01:00:17.519 --> 01:00:21.880
years old when when this occurred. You own drugs, real bad.

848
01:00:23.079 --> 01:00:23.199
Uh.

849
01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:28.719
You know that does not make any excuses for what

850
01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:31.199
you did. It was, like you law, you said, it

851
01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:36.519
was a very horrific crime. But uh, I do feel

852
01:00:36.519 --> 01:00:38.480
that you've done all you can do and ain't going

853
01:00:39.440 --> 01:00:44.079
that that that your work is done there. But you

854
01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:48.320
have plenty of work left. Uh So my vote today

855
01:00:48.719 --> 01:00:54.119
is also gonna be too grant to the parole project. Okay,

856
01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:58.880
mister Myers, I want him very thoroughly drug treat treatment.

857
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:00.960
I want I want him to look at that closely

858
01:01:03.239 --> 01:01:07.480
and if he needs impatient treatment you get back with us. Okay,

859
01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:13.199
do that. Also, I want you to have drug screens

860
01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:17.320
two times per month for the first six months. Uh

861
01:01:17.440 --> 01:01:19.840
you fell any of those drug dreams, I can promise

862
01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:24.719
you you will be returned. And and that's all the

863
01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:26.519
conditions I'm gonna put on you. I'm gonna let you

864
01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:30.239
off to put the rest. I thank your family for

865
01:01:30.280 --> 01:01:33.320
showing up here today, and your representatives have meant a lot.

866
01:01:34.960 --> 01:01:37.320
Like your sister said, y'all need to doll grow together.

867
01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:39.000
Thank you, sir.

868
01:01:40.119 --> 01:01:43.519
World's gonna be watching you. I can promise you so

869
01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:44.159
be careful.

870
01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:45.760
That's my lit.

871
01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:52.119
To say, mister Harris, It's difficult to make these kind

872
01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:55.199
of choices, Okay, and then I appreciate what you do.

873
01:01:56.000 --> 01:01:57.559
I understand. Thank you, ma'am.

874
01:01:58.360 --> 01:02:04.440
Now after hearing that, personally, my opinion hasn't changed. I'm

875
01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:08.519
gonna say it again. Three four victims convicted of at

876
01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:14.119
least three where's the justice for the victims here? And

877
01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:16.679
you heard him say, Hey, I was high on drugs.

878
01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:20.039
I was a drug addict when I committed these murders.

879
01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:26.199
I mean, so fucking what that doesn't excuse it or

880
01:02:26.239 --> 01:02:28.719
in my opinion, carrying any weight as to why you

881
01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:33.000
should be released from prison for it. There are millions

882
01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:35.760
of people on this earth that are addicted to drugs

883
01:02:35.800 --> 01:02:41.719
that don't go around killing random, multiple people because of it.

884
01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:47.360
It's a bullshit excuse and it totally negates the victims

885
01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:53.000
in my opinion. Could he have changed during those forty

886
01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:57.440
six years in prison, sure, maybe, but that doesn't mean

887
01:02:58.599 --> 01:03:03.679
you should walk the streets. You have to serve the

888
01:03:03.760 --> 01:03:11.519
time for your crime. It's just bizarre. They you have it.

889
01:03:13.119 --> 01:03:16.480
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Peace a wall Street line, shackle chain, Oh, who'so gird?

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It's calling my name? There is no mercy and it's

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been a tentery Jesus as the huge string game Rangle three.

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I'm here, be.

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By here to die.

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Inside these walls, inside the wild.

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And when the walk.

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Obody, angle

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Down and finding