A Wrongful Conviction: The Story of Darryl Hunt — Transcript

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1. 0:01good morning ladies and
2. 0:03gentlemen today on a wrongful conviction
3. 0:06we will be discussing the story of Daryl
4. 0:08hunt a wrongly convicted
5. 0:10African-American who was faced an
6. 0:12all-white jury in the
7. 0:131990s hunt was accused of the rape and
8. 0:17murder of Deborah Sykes let's discover
9. 0:19what could have led to his false
10. 0:21conviction analyzing friends evidence
11. 0:24can be an extremely difficult task
12. 0:27sometimes the evidence is misleading
13. 0:29sometimes it is false ified and
14. 0:31sometimes there's no evidence to go on
15. 0:32at all in Hunt's case all the evidence
16. 0:35was circumstantial his conviction was
17. 0:38based on two testimonies that he was
18. 0:39cited with syes if not for these
19. 0:42testimonies forensic scientists would
20. 0:44have used other techniques where their
21. 0:45knowledge of DNA
22. 0:47sequences one is rflp or restriction
23. 0:51fragment length
24. 0:53polymorphism this method illuminates
25. 0:55differences in individual DNA sequences
26. 0:57after cutting it with
27. 1:00by separating the DNA in this way
28. 1:02forensic scientists are better able to
29. 1:04examine the DNA sample however this is
30. 1:06not a popular method as it requires a
31. 1:08large sample size which may not always
32. 1:10be available on the crime scene and it's
33. 1:12a faulty
34. 1:14method in rflp the scientists extract
35. 1:17DNA from blood cells found on the crime
36. 1:19scene cut the sequence down with the
37. 1:22endonuclease sample down in aragos
38. 1:26gel they turn on electronic currents in
39. 1:30the gel in order to sort the sample of
40. 1:32DNA into length which is also known as
41. 1:35the electro
42. 1:36forces the sample is then put onto paper
43. 1:39and is visible to the naked eye a more
44. 1:42modern and popular technique is St Str
45. 1:45or short tend dim repeats this method is
46. 1:48more accurate uses a smaller and more
47. 1:50convenient sample size Str Str creates
48. 1:53copies of identical DNA sequences and
49. 1:56evaluates the repeated bases to help
50. 1:58distinguish one profile from another
51. 2:01profile this method does not use the
52. 2:03endonucleases all to cut the sequence
53. 2:05down but instead it uses PCR to make
54. 2:08copies of small samples into bigger
55. 2:11samples to be better used in analysis by
56. 2:15the
57. 2:16FBI finally fingerprints found on the
58. 2:19crime scene will go into the codus the
59. 2:22codus is a computer DNA database which
60. 2:24includes all the sequences of previously
61. 2:27convicted criminals in the past
62. 2:30fingerprints are then compared on the
63. 2:32codus to link crimes to previously
64. 2:35convicted people this exonerates a lot
65. 2:38of falsely accused prisoners prisoners
66. 2:40and gives them their life back however
67. 2:42there are concerns about the use of the
68. 2:44codus database it reveals personal
69. 2:47information that should remain private
70. 2:49it could lead to discrimination due to
71. 2:50the release of such information and
72. 2:52could also completely rely on the fact
73. 2:55the sample they attain belongs to the
74. 2:57actual perpetrator however it could be
75. 2:59easily corrupted Ed and it is risky to
76. 3:01rely on the cotus
77. 3:04completely going back to the story of
78. 3:07debor
79. 3:08Sykes as Sykes was on her way to her
80. 3:11work at the Centennial she was grabbed
81. 3:13raped and stabbed a total of 16 times in
82. 3:161984 in Winston sale 19-year-old hunt
83. 3:19was convicted and arrested testimonies
84. 3:22were the only form of evidence when
85. 3:24Witnesses admit to seeing him with pses
86. 3:26or at the crime scene with bloody
87. 3:28tissues because the court found DNA on
88. 3:30the crime scene they insisted there was
89. 3:32another perpetrator and remained
90. 3:34confident that because of the
91. 3:36testimonies hunt was a part of sy's
92. 3:39murder until the soul perpetrator came
93. 3:41and confessed to the crime hunt had been
94. 3:44rotting in jail for a crime he did not
95. 3:46commit hunt was finally exonerated in
96. 3:49February 2004 since then hunt has been a
97. 3:52national symbol for the wrongly
98. 3:53convicted African-American male in the
99. 3:55United States and an inspiration to many
100. 3:58I'm far Ahmed and thank you for tuning
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