David Milgaard, who spent 23 years in prison wrongfully convicted of murder, dead at 69 — Transcript

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1. 0:00for over two decades david milgard and
2. 0:02his mother worked to prove his innocence
3. 0:05while he was behind bars arrested for
4. 0:07murder at just 16 he was finally freed
5. 0:10at age 39.
6. 0:13lawyer david asper helped them working
7. 0:15to get milgard released from prison in
8. 0:171992 then fully exonerated in 1997. it
9. 0:22filled my heart with joy
10. 0:24to see him as a free person
11. 0:27and needless to say
12. 0:31it's a really tough day today milgard
13. 0:33was passing through saskatoon with
14. 0:35friends in 1969 when he was arrested for
15. 0:38the rape and murder of gail miller
16. 0:40police said evidence pointed to the home
17. 0:42where he was staying for one night only
18. 0:45he was convicted the next year i don't
19. 0:47know how you can lead a normal life
20. 0:48after spending so many years in jail at
21. 0:51such a young age
22. 0:52cecil rosner co-wrote a book on mill
23. 0:55garden and his research helped clear his
24. 0:57name when we looked at the totality of
25. 0:59all the evidence we were both convinced
26. 1:01that he was innocent not only that he
27. 1:03was innocent but we knew who the real
28. 1:05killer was the real killer was larry
29. 1:07fisher he'd been living in the basement
30. 1:09of the same house where milgard stayed
31. 1:12in saskatoon in 1980 fischer's ex-wife
32. 1:15even told police she believed he was the
33. 1:17likely killer but police were
34. 1:19unconvinced for years lawyers and
35. 1:21journalists accused police of tunnel
36. 1:23vision dna evidence later conclusively
37. 1:26proved milgard's innocence there's no
38. 1:28dollars in sense value on the kind of
39. 1:30things that
40. 1:31you know are lost seven years after his
41. 1:34release the government awarded david
42. 1:35milgard and his family 10 million
43. 1:37dollars milgard then spent years
44. 1:40campaigning for an independent review
45. 1:42board and advocating for people
46. 1:44wrongfully convicted david milgard died
47. 1:46this weekend he was 69. emily brass cbc
48. 1:50news winnipeg