A Luncheon with Darryl Hunt, Mark Rabil and Kirk Bloodsworth — Transcript

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1. 0:10so that we can get started because we
2. 0:12have three
3. 0:13uh fascinating speakers this news
4. 0:17uh
5. 0:17we focus we put this luncheon together
6. 0:20as a small group the the
7. 0:23three speaking guests today
8. 0:26uh i are part of a three-day program at
9. 0:29colgate
10. 0:31that has
11. 0:32been arranged through
12. 0:34professor earl smith and angela catterly
13. 0:37and
14. 0:39they are visiting from wake forest
15. 0:42university of north carolina and
16. 0:45have arranged this program and asked us
17. 0:48because they have attended our program
18. 0:50in november called the art of innocence
19. 0:54had come the day that roy brown's
20. 0:57new film was premiered
21. 0:59the documentary about roy's case was
22. 1:01premiered
23. 1:02and asked if we would have a luncheon
24. 1:05that would be kind of an informal casual
25. 1:07one-foot luncheon so that
26. 1:09these people
27. 1:11could share their stories with you
28. 1:14we're fortunate today and this is really
29. 1:17kind of almost one of the one of
30. 1:20our guests commented to me this is
31. 1:22really quite a collection of exonerees
32. 1:24we have we have four absolutely
33. 1:27remarkable inspiring individuals sitting
34. 1:30at this table with me uh two of them
35. 1:32will be speaking today two of them have
36. 1:35already spoken
37. 1:36and are currently speaking in the area
38. 1:39in multiple
39. 1:40places
40. 1:42and
41. 1:44included in the group and i'll introduce
42. 1:46the key the real speakers or today's
43. 1:48speakers in a minute but including the
44. 1:50group
45. 1:51is rory brown who participated was our
46. 1:54latte speaker last may 1st and also was
47. 1:58the speaker at on november
48. 2:018th i think it was the 9th the sunday of
49. 2:04our five-day program
50. 2:06and and he is his story is a remarkable
51. 2:09one that's documented by a story by a
52. 2:11film called blanchard rover murderer uh
53. 2:14in kyogre county sitting and glory 2010
54. 2:18to wave so that people know who you are
55. 2:20sitting
56. 2:21next to roy with the yellow shirt
57. 2:23is
58. 2:24stephen barnes and there's probably no
59. 2:27one in oneida county or central new york
60. 2:30who doesn't by now know stephen barnes
61. 2:33stephen barnes
62. 2:34i'd like to say that we had something to
63. 2:36do with this with our program the art of
64. 2:38innocence his mother sylvia who's here
65. 2:41also sitting back there attended
66. 2:44five of our six programs
67. 2:46and uh and that each program talked
68. 2:48about the fact that she was looking
69. 2:50forward to the day that her son who was
70. 2:52wrongfully convicted would be released
71. 2:54from prison and lo and behold 12 days
72. 2:57after our program was over we got the
73. 2:59word from the innocence project that
74. 3:01stephen uh that the dna had confirmed uh
75. 3:05that stephen uh was not guilty of the
76. 3:07crime he'd been convicted of was
77. 3:09innocent of the crime i should say and
78. 3:12as a result uh two the two days before
79. 3:15thanksgiving stephen after spending 20
80. 3:18years in prison or nearly 20 years in
81. 3:20prison won his freedom so i'd like to
82. 3:22just welcome both of
83. 3:31i those want to acknowledge bob mortis
84. 3:33and uh liz cesari i don't see here yet
85. 3:36but uh she was tied up in syracuse and
86. 3:38on her way in
87. 3:40uh they were the
88. 3:42two committee members that
89. 3:44with me had arranged this luncheon and i
90. 3:48let me take this opportunity just to
91. 3:49introduce one other person and that
92. 3:52person sitting on bob's
93. 3:54right and that's
94. 3:56president dan o'leary dan is the new
95. 4:00president of the munson william proctor
96. 4:02arts institute just joined the institute
97. 4:06this past month and we want to welcome
98. 4:08him to the community and
99. 4:10welcome dan
100. 4:17i make that special introduction because
101. 4:18the art of innocence that was our
102. 4:20five-day program in in the fall was
103. 4:23co-sponsored by the ohio county bar
104. 4:25association and the munson williams
105. 4:27proctor art institute and i recall one
106. 4:30day
107. 4:31one of the women
108. 4:32got up during our question and answer
109. 4:34period and said this was an absolutely
110. 4:37phenomenal program this is what this
111. 4:39organization ought to be doing is this
112. 4:41type of program i want dan to know that
113. 4:43the public that came to those programs
114. 4:46really
115. 4:47believed in and the idea of mixing this
116. 4:50public service type programs of that
117. 4:52nature
118. 4:53to