Forensics James Bain — Transcript

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1. 0:10james bain was only 19 years old
2. 0:13when he was convicted of raping and
3. 0:16kidnapping
4. 0:17a nine-year-old boy in florida and then
5. 0:20sentenced to life in prison
6. 0:21for the crime that he did not commit
7. 0:25it wasn't until 35 years later when he
8. 0:27was finally found innocent and set free
9. 0:36on march 4th 1974 in lake wales florida
10. 0:40a nine-year-old boy was kidnapped from
11. 0:42his home through a window
12. 0:47the attacker dragged the boy to a nearby
13. 0:50baseball field
14. 0:51where he was then sexually assaulted
15. 1:26the boy returned home and only a white
16. 1:28shirt and his underwear
17. 1:31the attacker was described as having a
18. 1:34mustache and bushy sideburns
19. 1:36and was known as jimmy
20. 1:41after hearing the description the family
21. 1:43member of the nine-year-old boy
22. 1:46thought the description would match
23. 1:48james bain who he had known for many
24. 1:52years
25. 2:04the police showed up at baines's house
26. 2:07that night
27. 2:08but baines claimed that he had been home
28. 2:10watching tv since 10 30 with his sister
29. 2:13but despite having an alibi he was still
30. 2:15arrested
31. 2:21after the victim gave the description
32. 2:23and his family member was convinced it
33. 2:25was james bane
34. 2:26that got into the boy's head that it was
35. 2:28too
36. 2:29when a photo was in line with four
37. 2:31others for the witness to identify
38. 2:33james baine's photo was the only one
39. 2:35with sideburns
40. 2:37the police also suggested and borderline
41. 2:39instructed him
42. 2:40to pick out bain's photo instead of
43. 2:43asking him to pick out the photo
44. 2:45of his own
45. 2:52when the underwear the boy was found
46. 2:54wearing after the attack
47. 2:57was sent to the lab for a serology test
48. 3:00it confirmed that the attacker left a
49. 3:02semen sample
50. 3:03the fbi analysis testified that the
51. 3:06semen
52. 3:07was of the blood group b but james bain
53. 3:10was blood a b
54. 3:12then they testified that he had a weak a
55. 3:15which has since been proven wrong
56. 3:24the crime occurred in march and by the
57. 3:26beginning of may the trial had started
58. 3:28by the end of may the trial had ended
59. 3:32and james bain was sentenced to life in
60. 3:34prison
61. 3:43in 2001 fame seeked for further testing
62. 3:46of the evidence
63. 3:47but it wasn't until 2005 when the
64. 3:50innocence project
65. 3:51picked up his case and found
66. 3:54any success
67. 3:58in 2009 dna testing showed no match to
68. 4:01james bain
69. 4:02at the crime he was finally released on
70. 4:06december 17
71. 4:072009 35 years later
72. 4:17a man walks free after 35 years behind
73. 4:19bars for a crime
74. 4:20he didn't commit dna evidence cleared
75. 4:23jamie baine of a kidnapping and rape
76. 4:24conviction from
77. 4:261974. wesh 2 reporter greg fox joins us
78. 4:29with the late-breaking details and greg
79. 4:31he says
80. 4:31he's not angry he doesn't act angry he
81. 4:35says that he's not angry he just
82. 4:36is glad that all of this is over and he
83. 4:38wants to go back and see his mother
84. 4:39that's what he talked about a lot during
85. 4:41a news conference
86. 4:42after he got done when jamie baine was
87. 4:44convicted and sentenced
88. 4:45it was the same month that president
89. 4:46richard nixon resigned and gerald ford
90. 4:48moved into the white house
91. 4:50in fact jamie baine has been in prison
92. 4:52so long he's gone from a teenager
93. 4:54to an aarp member before winning his
94. 4:56freedom
95. 4:58you are a free man congratulations
96. 5:02with those words jamie baine knew he was
97. 5:04headed to a new phase of his life
98. 5:06one as a free man after spending 35
99. 5:09years behind bars
100. 5:10wrongly convicted of the rape of a
101. 5:12nine-year-old boy in 1974.
102. 5:14and uh have you thought about what you
103. 5:16want to do
104. 5:17not only not right now i don't have sir
105. 5:20i'ma leave that up to the lord
106. 5:22amen using dna to retest the evidence in
107. 5:26this case
108. 5:27led to bain's free
109. 5:39james bain served a total of 35 years in
110. 5:42prison
111. 5:42missing the prime years of his life all
112. 5:45due to witness misidentification
113. 5:47including family and police peer
114. 5:49pressures
115. 5:50and faulty and lacking lab analysis that
116. 5:54wasn't up to current advancements
117. 6:0054 year old james baines t-shirt said it
118. 6:03all as he walked out of a courthouse in
119. 6:04florida
120. 6:05freed by a judge just moments before
121. 6:08after
122. 6:0835 years in prison i am now signing the
123. 6:11order sir
124. 6:12you are a free man congratulations
125. 6:17bane had been convicted of kidnapping
126. 6:19and raping a nine-year-old boy
127. 6:21he was freed by modern technology dna
128. 6:24evidence that proved
129. 6:25he couldn't have done it i know from the
130. 6:27moment they
131. 6:28took the test on me it's going to do one
132. 6:30of the two lock me or free me
133. 6:33james bain becomes the 248th inmate
134. 6:36freed nationwide
135. 6:37by dna evidence hallelujah it's not a
136. 6:40sign that the system worked
137. 6:42that's a sign that the system is in many
138. 6:44ways broken
139. 6:45and absolutely has to be remedied bane
140. 6:48had been convicted solely on the
141. 6:49eyewitness testimony of the young victim
142. 6:51who defense lawyers said was steered by
143. 6:53police to pick bain out of a lineup
144. 6:56the james bond case tells us that we get
145. 6:58it better get serious about
146. 7:00eyewitness identification reform it's
147. 7:02the single greatest cause of the
148. 7:04conviction of the innocent
149. 7:05florida law grants former inmates found
150. 7:07innocent 50
151. 7:08000 for each year they spend in prison
152. 7:11that means james baine is entitled to
153. 7:131.75 million dollars
154. 7:16well i i can't even imagine that type of
155. 7:18money right now
156. 7:19my family is the only thing i can
157. 7:20imagine at this moment
158. 7:22the first thing he did as a free man was
159. 7:24call his mother
160. 7:26using a cell phone for the very first
161. 7:28time jim axelrod cbs
162. 7:35james bain is now a free man and is
163. 7:38enjoying free life
164. 7:40celebrating many firsts that he never
165. 7:42got to accomplish
166. 7:44through the time that he was in prison
167. 8:01you