the state of Louisiana has exonerated a man who has been
incarcerated for nearly three decades for murder that he did not commit in the
nineteen eighties
there's a 64-year-old Glenn Ford will never get those years back
but of course is happy to be exonerated he maintained his innocence
up since the beginning of his conviction however no one believed him he tried to
appeal the case several times and no one was even
considering taking up his appeal but now there's evidence to prove his innocence
and thankfully he will be set free
now there were a number of things that were numbered inconsistencies that led
to his exoneration last Thursday prosecutors filed a motion
to bake eight boards come conviction and sentence saying that
in late 2013 credible evidence came to their attention
supporting a finding that board was neither president at Nora participate in
the robbery and murder %uh be a jeweler by the name isadore Roseman
they had picked him because he did yard work occasionally for Rossman
and 62 and also the story one is racial one is
generally about the death penalty now his jury was all white
and I'm and the prosecutors had information that could have actually
help this cause they hit it okay
and it turns out the two guys who did it including now we have an informant
who it said he talked to the guy who confessed to it we can all explained in
a second okay
two guys who did were actually white okay and they
at the time not match just now at the time that credible evidence
that it was those guys instead they like okay who is a close as black I would
find this guy
the guy who does your yeah he does his yard work every once well as big black
eye
he was at the scene there was no nothing connecting him
though it got cut NOP we can connect him in some way he did yard work form
it must have been him such a miscarriage of justice and it makes you so depressed
to know that this man's life was completely ruined I mean
I'm sure a lot of times you hear the stories about people that have been
exonerated after serving decades behind bars and they're just so happy to be out
that day they don't want to look back and they somehow convince themselves to
live a happy life
but I mean his life was ruined you took thirty years in this man's life away
from him simply because I'm a skin color
because the prosecutors obviously had a bias here and that's another thing that
I understand right
the real person who actually committed this murder actually shot the jeweler
is out there any spree but instead of focusing on not merely allowing your own
biases to go after completely innocent man you're ignoring evidence
there was a confession okay the person who confessed to it
was a man by the name Jake Robinson he confessed when prosecutors like now
whatever
yet now look they've been trying to get this information out for decades
finally got an evidentiary hearing in 2000 his release follow in 2013 right
and at that point they had evidence that
if air that the prosecutor suppress information about taking Henry Roberson
these two white brothers who were initially implicated in the crime
now finally the prosecutor says well we had all the information in it was
presented to the jury
they might not have even arrested or indicted him
let alone convicting them let alone put him on death row okay
but what are the reasons the prosecutor is not because they're viciously racist
at the time
right up because it's easier they like it all black case for that I'll have an
all-white jury
Italy sue you super easy to convict this white guy I'm sorry is black I put a
white guy on the stand well it's going to be harder some people can relate to
him yada yada
and know that is wrapping up the truck to pull cares who cares who cares right
who cares that guy was murdered we did a death penalty because what
we want justice now we want some sort a bloody vengeance right
it doesn't have to be on the right person as long as the masses are
appeased
that so let's get the death penalty now I was a
added to the death penalty and I believe in two terms as sometimes even believe
in vendors
okay so maybe I'm not a good guy and I'm certainly not a liberal on that ish
okay but I change my mind why because we're
applying at Braun because we keep letting go
people who are on death row when it turns out they didn't do would
now it's happened dozens of times now it happens again
what kind of a person face with that evidence says
I'm still on paper the death penalty even though we consistently
have the wrong guys on death row what kinda mad
animal would still be in favor the death penalty
even if you're like me and you say hey you know what I don't mind a vengeance
okay it looked like it was a rather my family member I want justice rate
but I'd want justice on the right guy I wouldn't wanna kill someone else who
didn't do it
you have to be in all you have to be the same kinda murderer but you wanna
executed
to be okay with killing the wrong guy
as it is applied today in America if you're a half way up or way decent human
being
you cannot be in favor the death penalty it's Adam open-and-shut case if you are
you really gotta check what kinda person you are man you look inside yourself
and see if you have any shred of morality or decency
how can you be comfortable with executing the wrong people
all throughout the thirty years they tell miss guy hey listen just man
hey Glenn Ford just it minuteman and and you know your
conscious or be clear you know anything not could
minuteman because I didn't do it I didn't do the whole sure you didn't do
it
sure you did police said but no really I didn't do it
and I'm not going to admit something I didn't do right in here is is that
pressure for thirty years
right and of course it turns out he was correct and then
I'm reminded of the story we did on Fox News other day where Bill O'Reilly in
Bernie Goldberg was talking about what I'm about how
have Obama has a so easy with the liberal media you know any never gets a
criticism because he's black
arreglos black people may never want to criticize them you see a black people
rose petals throughout their feet
all day long 14 did you know nearly died from all the rose petals that were
thrown at his feet
so I know there's no racism in the country and everybody that was convicted
back in 1983 back in the nineteen seventies back in the nineteen sixties
they're all guilty as sin you're 100 percent sure but I know just to give you
a scope how bad the problem is
the republican governor in Illinois few years ago
for a moratorium on all that penalties because did a study
and the shade on there are maybe over 50 percent have the people who are on death
row
not guilty yeah didn't i said
an bless unconscionable but I'm not proud
that it took me so long at to get to that conclusion based on
FactSet had been accumulating but it was at that point where I said all mike got
fifty percent cheeses Christ
I mean I know but is there any more you know where you can live with with the
death penalty
I don't know that's a really really good question but it's early
fucking 50 percent and there's something admirable about the fact that you're
willing to take that information and changer stance based on information
on the other side you have advocates for the death penalty
who will be given this information and he refused to budge because they believe
their
they're being tough on crime and they're usually the most conservative lawmakers
are the most conservative people living in the country
the same people their point their fingers that women and say no you don't
deserve reproductive rights we believe in
the right to life you believe in the right to life and at the same time you
advocate for the death penalty knowing that a huge chunk of people that have
been killed
or going to be killed as a result in the death penalty should be exonerated
because the DNA evidence
I'm pro-life except for the fifty percent of people I accidentally killed
when they were perfectly innocent