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0:00good evening ladies and gentlemen my
0:02name is Audrey Stoltz and I'm a student
0:04here at Chesapeake college and a recent
0:07graduate of the honors program here at
0:09the college and I just want to thank you
0:11again for joining us this evening now
0:14that you have been able to see and hear
0:16Kirk's amazing story on the screen it is
0:19now my pleasure to introduce you to the
0:21man himself so please give a warm
0:23Eastern Shore welcome to activist and
0:26inspirational speaker mr. Kirk noble
0:29Bloodsworth
0:30[Applause]
0:31[Music]
0:32[Applause]
0:35[Music]
0:38oh
0:39come on sit down
0:41[Applause]
0:45I turned out I turned out pretty good
0:49I'm looking in the background Tim Duncan
0:52were you out Tim Duncan tune junk and
0:55calling tenanken
0:57are you moved on us Tim Duncan who wrote
1:01my book he's in the audience he is a
1:02local Eastern Shore man
1:04they want us to sign some after you get
1:07out so you you can't go nowhere
1:10I'd like to tell you all that I don't
1:13smoke anymore
1:16I
1:18haven't smoked in two years this
1:21December so I'm pretty proud of that and
1:23watching this film 100 times made me
1:25quit but I want to thank you all for
1:29coming out and you
1:32know it seems like a lot of people talk
1:36about the Eastern Shore and men and
1:38women from where we live and where we
1:40come from but it's some of the best
1:42bunch that I ever knew in my life
1:46I've got some of my family down here Jay
1:49and Justin and Jason and it's 3 j's
1:54there it's a but my two nephews and
1:59their father and several other my dad is
2:02in the audience he was 88 years old
2:04where you at pops Darius right here
2:08he's at handsome and it was the next to
2:11me in that picture i I really don't
2:15think the movie says it all I finally
2:18after you know our book has been out for
2:20ten years and and finally I had to last
2:24because you know I've been public
2:25speaking now for 23 years and I
2:30you know but you know what to say about
2:32Eastern Shore people man we can always
2:34tell a good story so I just wish it
2:37wouldn't what it was it turned out to be
2:40now I I have to tell you that it's out
2:44on DVD and you can buy at Walmart Target
2:47or any of those places to go online and
2:49get it and we want to tell everybody
2:52about the film it's been out a year now
2:54and
2:56you know it took us four years to make
2:58and
3:00Gregory bein I think did an excellent
3:03job pretty house and even the governor
3:05let me go to the old prison and film out
3:08there before they tore it down
3:11you know I've been doing this a long
3:14time and
3:15the reason why I ended to help end the
3:18death penalty in this day was because I
3:20look out over this audience and if it
3:22can happen to an honorably discharged
3:24marine it could happen to anybody here
3:26and whether you agree with the death
3:28penalty or not is immaterial to me I
3:30don't want you to have to go through
3:31what I did
3:33and guess what so you will never have to
3:35do that and because it's gone and I hope
3:39it stays gone forever now I'm asked to
3:43take some questions
3:45anybody's got any please
3:49let you want this
3:51you might need that
3:53but
3:55so ask away
3:59yes I got one right here at this lady
4:03had her hand up first year next sir this
4:06lady right here in the front room
4:08my pleasure my pleasure
4:20yeah here you go ahead
4:31[Music]
4:36well
4:38you know I was innocent I was innocent
4:40Manning by God's grace you know
4:43if you look at the Bible and
4:47Joseph that suffered through summer
4:50slings and arrows like that he wound up
4:52running Egypt at one point and so you
4:55know I I
4:57just kept my head up and you know my
5:00mother she would always tell me never to
5:02back off you know if you're innocent man
5:05you tell them what's up and and we lived
5:08at my dad said the same thing we you
5:10know you don't mess around with that
5:11stuff and
5:13by God's grace I stand here before you
5:17yes sir
5:19you got to hit a button on that I think
5:22you're giving this choice well what
5:24would you like to see done if there is
5:26one thing and the criminal justice to
5:28improve in criminal justice systems what
5:31would you
5:32I think that definitely should be a
5:35policy in the United States and
5:37in week that's a that's a long laundry
5:40list for me witness identification
5:44procedures that are far better than what
5:46we have to date you have double-blind
5:49sequential testing is it can be done now
5:51that's a lot better not to rely on a lot
5:53of this junk science that we knew I
5:56don't know if you've seen the credits
5:58but I dedicated some of it to Chris
6:00Conover was a man I was in prison with
6:02he did 19 years for hair comparison
6:05testing and they said both head hairs
6:08they found at the crime scene on a
6:09triple homicide were his and not only
6:13were they not his they were two
6:15different a tears
6:17hair comparison testing doesn't work
6:20same with ballistics a lot of different
6:23things we found we knew 20 30 40 years
6:26ago just don't work and we need to
6:29change some of that stuff but an
6:32accountability if a prosecutor
6:36war police officer knowingly with holds
6:39evidence or defense attorney for that
6:41other
6:42withholds evidence about another suspect
6:44there should be some punitive damages
6:46and pull his license or hers and not let
6:49them practice and I think that you know
6:53we have to be accountable we just can't
6:55our system of crim criminal justice is
6:59adversarial in nature it cannot be
7:01adversarial to the truth and so
7:08tell you truth has set you free is what
7:10he tell me yes or down here in front yep
7:20[Music]
7:58well we need to we need to decriminalize
8:00a lot of laws I think that's one of the
8:03first things our prisons are packed with
8:05people that have no business in there
8:07you know for smoking a little weed I
8:10mean but you know and I'm not condoning
8:13any of that yeah but what I'm saying is
8:17is that we need to get away from this
8:19pound of flesh thinking we do and start
8:21educating people in in the ways that the
8:25criminal justice system will work we've
8:27got 20 thousands of prisoners in the
8:29state of Maryland close to it and you
8:31know we got we building prisons left and
8:33right and persons are being built around
8:36for instance that we're built and we
8:38have to get away from that Miss mass
8:39incarceration has to stop we have to
8:42start doing some policy changes that's
8:45really going to work I think we could
8:47lighten the load its cost a lot of money
8:49and you know legalized marijuana and get
8:53away from all this crap that we're doing
8:55and and I'm not telling right you people
8:58you know you know just the ticket to do
9:02what they want but certainly you know
9:04like prohibition back in the day with
9:07alcohol we could get away from that it
9:09would cause a lot less problems and so
9:12I'm for decriminalization of a lot of
9:14things and
9:15the other thing is
9:18the state of Maryland spent six million
9:22dollars
9:23six million dollars in prosecuting me in
9:28which they didn't have to spend done if
9:31the hit went back and checked so
9:33thoroughness you know really paying
9:36attention what we're doing you know but
9:38I think for me that's it dis dis guy
9:41right there I see you I got you yet I
9:44was just curious after you were found
9:47innocent have you had any contact with
9:49Don's family or Thelma I have I have not
9:53I did when Tim and I were first doing
9:57the book years ago I was at Essex County
10:01Library one of the times didn't didn't
10:03show up but I was there and you know I
10:07met Eleanor helmick who was Dawn's aunt
10:10that was watching her that day it was a
10:13very emotional scene I never got to meet
10:14tom hamilton and or the kids
10:18you know i think this was one of those
10:20things that people get caught up in and
10:23the police were talking to two children
10:25the children make mistakes and you know
10:28it was
10:31Tom Hamilton said he was very sorry for
10:33what happened to me but it's through the
10:35media but I
10:36that was his only child and
10:40you know it was because of dawn I stand
10:43here I think in some way you know I work
10:46with murder victims families if you saw
10:48that last
10:49screenshot when I had my hands up when I
10:51was in the State House that lady that
10:52was sitting next to me is bonita spikes
10:55she's a murder victim's family member
10:57from New York who lost her husband to a
11:00robbery who was shot and killed who also
11:02opposed the death penalty as well so we
11:05have a lot of things going on up and so
11:08sorry for what happened to dawn but you
11:11know in her memory I try to make it
11:13better so everybody will never forget
11:16her as long as I'm standing
11:17[Applause]
11:23questions okay yeah first of all I want
11:26to say thank you for your service as a
11:28Marine you know fight newer item before
11:31you even before this house is marine to
11:33right there my dad was as well
11:35so thank you for that
11:38did you have any support in the prison
11:41any inmates or any any guards that you
11:44were able to confide in and and and you
11:47know have some support system within the
11:49prison well you know basically when you
11:51go to prison you don't really talk about
11:53your case
11:55that was made known to me from the very
11:58beginning but I did meet some people
12:00Chris was a very
12:03you know
12:05you know Chris was really cool and
12:09he had been there a long time he had
12:11been in out of prison all his life and
12:13he would even tell you if he was alive
12:14today the chris took his own life last
12:17year we had tried to work for a pardon
12:21for him and
12:22but him and I learned so many things
12:25blue he was in the credits as well he's
12:28another guy the blue is of Amanda talked
12:31me how to play chess and not in the
12:33conventional sense where we would play
12:35across from each other we had to play in
12:36the cell and then we call the pieces out
12:39we both had both sides of the board and
12:41we would set it up in like man pawn for
12:44and like that and yes how you play I
12:46don't know why he won all the time but
12:50anyway he he was you know he was an
12:54african-american man who was the one of
12:57the leaders from the nation Islam and he
12:59was see where he and I were tight you
13:01know for a while and he took two number
13:04two pencils and shoved them through his
13:06eyes
13:07to get a you know to die he wanted to
13:10die but it just he was doing life
13:14without parole in the dark
13:16but blue is in the custody of the
13:20the Maryland School of the blind now
13:23he's out all these blind he's learning
13:25place a city still beat me a chess I
13:27have no doubt
13:29but
13:31you know I was a lone wolf too I I
13:35traveled at yard by myself through two
13:38different riots you're also looking at a
13:39guy
13:40that step down the prison population on
13:43his own which was probably the craziest
13:45thing I ever did in my life um but I did
13:48and nothing nothing really happened I
13:50mean you know I got hit in the back of
13:52the head with a sock full of batteries I
13:54got stabbed in the CAF with a welding
13:56rod I got hit in the chest with a mass a
13:57lot well Jays hit me in the head with a
14:01dag on set it on shaft it was harder
14:03than that and
14:04but I I you know there's a lot of good
14:08men and women in these places that we
14:10seem to forget and that
14:12have changed their lives
14:15and you ever find out why the evidence
14:19was in the judges closet and a brown
14:21paper bag
14:23where argue that
14:25okay say that again
14:29did you ever find out what the evidence
14:32was in the judges closet and a brown
14:34paper bag sounds a little fishy to me
14:37Tim and I we talked about that when we
14:41were writing a book I you know what I
14:43nobody really knows I think the judge
14:46just forgot it and
14:51but I heard other people say that you
14:54know he might have kept it in here
14:55because technology might have wanted to
14:58catch up to it and like science and he
15:01didn't trust the state either and that
15:04was a good thing I thought and I was so
15:08paranoid at that point because of
15:10everything that went wrong and they were
15:12trying to win instead of trying to win
15:14the truth
15:15so i don't really can't tell you judge
15:18james t smith was the last judge i had
15:21and he was the county executive in
15:23baltimore um you know one of these days
15:26I'm gonna ask him
15:27if I ever see him again
15:30question I see something over there
15:32thank you hi thank you for taking my
15:34question
15:36for those of you that don't know there
15:38has been a case in talbot county and
15:40there was 1986 there was a horrific
15:42murder in
15:442000 which was 14 years later they
15:47arrested two men who
15:49have been in jail for 15 years and I'm
15:52very close with one of the families of
15:53one of these men
15:55appeals
15:57evidentiary hearings etc Innocence
16:00Project got involved in 2012 this past
16:03year they applied for a writ of
16:05innocence after begging for two years
16:08for evidence that was slow in coming
16:11there is no physical evidence whatsoever
16:13found at the scene DNA fingerprints palm
16:17prints were linked to other people one
16:19of whom is walking the street and these
16:22men are innocent and
16:23there was the rid of innocence and a
16:26request to retrial both were denied by
16:29the judge the one and only judge in
16:30Talbot County hope he's nobody here that
16:33knows him because I'll probably be in
16:34big trouble now we're waiting to hear
16:38because the judge decided he wants
16:39another review of the court transcript
16:42what can someone do as a regular person
16:47I was at every day of this hearing in
16:50April for two weeks the only way they
16:54convicted these men was on 15 years
16:57later a confidential criminal informant
17:00came forward with ulterior motives
17:02because the family had a reward out
17:06it's heartbreaking to see the family of
17:08the victim there 30 years later
17:11with all this being brought up it's
17:14heartbreaking for the family of these
17:16men who have been in jail
17:18what can a person do
17:20what can you know a society do a
17:23community do what can a person who just
17:25cares about a gross miss justice do and
17:29by the way Barry Scheck was in talbot
17:31county did anybody know that because it
17:33never hit the papers never hit the TV I
17:35met him and shook his hand along with
17:37the 14 other Innocence Project attorneys
17:40who were sitting in that courtroom
17:41shaking their heads gross miscarriage of
17:44justice
17:45what do you suggest well I i would still
17:49still remain vigilant about it obviously
17:52I think
17:53whoever these men are have great
17:56advocate in you I can just see listening
17:59to you talk about this and and maybe
18:02before this is all over we can exchange
18:05emails and I'll try to look into this
18:07but I know Sean Ambrose who runs the
18:11mid-atlantic Innocence Project and you
18:15know she there if they're in their hands
18:18that's the best people on the planet for
18:21them if there's a way that will find it
18:23and I'm almost certain of it and
18:26you know so
18:28just keep on plugging away I mean you
18:31know never
18:33leave them stay and tell them the same
18:36thing
18:37thank you questions
18:40anybody else yes right here yep I gotcha
18:57well just the day-to-day things you know
19:01it was like
19:04getting a job you know I've always been
19:06self-employed
19:08pretty much i worked at different places
19:11i had a lot of problems i remember i
19:14worked at a tool company in easton for a
19:18brief period of time i'm not going to
19:19mention her name's black and decker and
19:23they you know wanted me to to you know
19:27they wanted me to show my pardon they
19:29wanted my
19:30everything in a pint of blood almost it
19:33seemed like
19:34so how do i sign
19:38unemployment form that said have you
19:40ever been arrested for a crime before
19:43yes I didn't do it but you know and I'm
19:47being flipped but that's exactly what
19:50you have to do we all these exonerees
19:52there is no
19:54do you know there's no constitutional
19:57right after you've been convicted of a
20:00crime of innocence did you all know that
20:03you do not have any more after that
20:06first initial 30 to 90 days is over with
20:09there is you cannot argue in a court of
20:12law on your innocence in appellate court
20:15ever and if Tim was here I have they but
20:18it's you can't do it and you cannot
20:22argue innocence that's it it's only
20:24technical merit alone to get you going
20:27so it was really tough at you know
20:32dating
20:33just getting a date you know blimp let
20:36me tell you people had very didn't talk
20:39about me in the fondness of stairs
20:41things before I left and so I get out
20:44and I go out on a date and I have a date
20:45and
20:47my you're a nice guy where have you been
20:50for the last nine years
20:52well I was accused of a brutal murder
20:54and I didn't do it I'm the first DNA guy
20:56in the United States to be freed by it
20:59Pass me the salt
21:02she actually got up and walked out
21:05but her loss I'm just saying it's very
21:09very hard and there's no resources for
21:13us do you know they have resources it's
21:15called a second chance act for criminals
21:18people who commit crimes yet services
21:21they get pregnant innocent people
21:23exonerated people nothing
21:26but they're getting ready we're getting
21:29ready to sail upon them and I I'm just
21:33tired of seeing it these some of these
21:35guys got a lot of problems and I'm not
21:36just talking about throwing a million
21:37tiles at somebody it would be great but
21:42how to go to school get a college degree
21:45how to learn a trade get a boat bye-bye
21:49things you want to do go to to true or
21:51trade school you know what did I have to
21:54do I had to had to borrow and get
21:56everything I ever gotten I didn't have
21:58any chance to get anything and so we
22:02need to change those laws
22:05questions anybody else
22:08and we could figure
22:13ruffner
22:20you know we we talked to everybody I
22:24mean basically he was in the yard he
22:26lifted weights but you know he hung
22:28around with other people with those
22:31charges and he was what we call a rape
22:34artist so that's what he he did you know
22:38and he was always hung up with those
22:40kind of guys and they travel to grant I
22:42never liked those guys and
22:45we all but we all had to lift in the
22:47same darts you would tolerate people you
22:49know just saying like you don't have
22:51friends you have acquaintances well
22:53thats he was an acquaintance and
22:55prisons not that you don't have no
22:57friends in prison to most part and
23:01you know I never liked to do
23:03but you know i'm looking for a
23:05six-foot-five guy you know he was a
23:09little thing you know he's a little guy
23:11we look like Mutt and Jeff standing next
23:12to each other so I
23:18wouldn't I wouldn't have a whole lot of
23:20good things to say to him at this point
23:22I don't think you know he's got his life
23:26sentence will not start until his 75
23:30years 45 years is up for what he did and
23:35you know had they went back a check we
23:39wouldn't be talking right now probably
23:40you know and he would have arrested him
23:43and this would all been brushed away
23:45like it was supposed to be and he would
23:48have been convicted and I wouldn't be
23:49here but I
23:52look back in hindsight I didn't see
23:54anything
23:58he told me but when I day I left prison
24:01and so did everybody else I heard him
24:03holler through the bars you know good
24:05luck
24:06and he was just key to a lot of things I
24:14might take a being a closet with him for
24:17about five minutes I don't know we got
24:20to do any good questions down here
24:28he says he didn't but you know he
24:31remembers what he drugs he took the day
24:35of the murder he remembered the murder
24:37he remembered taking a vacation the next
24:39day and
24:41you know I
24:44think if you can kill a nine year old
24:46little girl lines not much of a problem
24:48you know so I you know I don't believe a
24:52word he said
24:56questions right here it is it fell
25:07right
25:09[Music]
25:19no I don't actually
25:23[Music]
25:29right but I also could have died in
25:32prison from a stabbing or I could have
25:35did anything could have happened it's
25:37you know I got rid of the death penalty
25:40because
25:41we shouldn't walk over the innocent to
25:44get to the guilty and that was the
25:47reason for that that is a total new
25:48number one issue for me there was a man
25:52that I know he's a exonerees in Florida
25:54his name is Freddy pits and on the back
25:58of those blue shirts that said witnessed
26:00innocence that's a group that I belong
26:01to were all death row survivors and on
26:05the back of the shirt it says you can
26:07free a man from jail but you can't free
26:11him from the grave and it is a tragic
26:14thing that they would have to stay in
26:16there for life like this lady was
26:18talking over here about these men who
26:20spent 15 years in but I can't free them
26:23if they're dead and
26:25may God's freed them from that but you
26:29know that's the that's the quandary we
26:31are at I think life without parole is
26:34the best option do we have now honestly
26:37yes I do believe there's some people
26:39that should never see the light of day
26:41ruffner being one of them
26:44but I don't want him execute
26:48accountability we all have to live with
26:51what people have done in our lives and
26:53in our communities and so should they
26:56they shouldn't be taken away and not
27:00held accountable by by being alive every
27:02day in that place I think you know it's
27:05a better thing that we do if we give
27:08them life without parole
27:10questions I seen somebody Jay I think on
27:14the last one I think it's super saver
27:16more I just want to say I'm cooked
27:19leather snuff you and want to say hi to
27:21tim a long while since we've seen each
27:24other the u.s. chicago with the king but
27:27i want to leave reiterate on something
27:29that the lady asked you when you got out
27:32how did you cope and
27:33with everything he worked with me after
27:37he got out for a couple years or few
27:39years and married into our family
27:42if you could imagine like a dog being
27:45pinned up and a little box that was way
27:48too small for the dog and one day you
27:51open the damn door and you tell take off
27:54running and he takes two or three steps
27:56and goods
27:58what's going on
28:00that's the way he was for a couple years
28:02ago Jim you just imagine being penned up
28:05in something like that and and say
28:07here's the door open the door go then
28:09for yourself make eleven put food on the
28:12table
28:13it will turn up what time we were
28:15working together we worked on the order
28:17for a while he was working with me and I
28:19seen this seen it what he's done and
28:22what he become now me no biggies that
28:26would be out there tolling in him
28:28makeshift for an hour so you wouldn't
28:31get anything done these thoughts will
28:32get to his head with what had been on
28:34and the phone would be ringing and it
28:36would be either Tim calling and that's
28:39when they were started working on the
28:40book
28:40that's how long ago thats groaning
28:43and to see him
28:46I'm not saying mature because he was
28:49maturing but mature were because he'd
28:51been stopped up for what he's become
28:53then to what he's done now when he
28:57couldn't walk on his own two feet after
28:59being stopped up for almost nine years
29:01to see what he's done now and accomplish
29:04the things that he's done nationwide and
29:06especially here in the state of Maryland
29:07and people that his help I think that's
29:10one hell of a run after you get out of
29:12the cage what do you think
29:14[Music]
29:15[Applause]
29:16that's what boy crochet
29:19well those i was thinking about
29:23his kids and I used to be able to put
29:26him on my hand like this I can't carry
29:28you like that anymore Justin but it back
29:31in the day we had so much fun and and it
29:34gave me a place but I remember Tim you
29:37remember this in so Tim was in he was on
29:40vacation and in somewhere and I've shot
29:44of getting so I talked to his wife I
29:45said you're not gonna believe what's
29:47going on I said Tim said he wanted to
29:49have an ending for the book and I said I
29:52think I got it and they just caught the
29:54real killer and that's how we ended a
29:57book in that's when I was with Jay when
30:00the phone call came across and and
30:04Ambrose wouldn't see me and it was
30:06finally it was a vindication man it was
30:10almost like some magical moment in our
30:12lives back then and it seems so long ago
30:15but and it was it was like 12 years ago
30:18it's and in that Tim wants to speak
30:24but about it this is tim John a long
30:27time bloody oh good see
30:32[Music]
30:34I just have a couple quick anecdote so
30:37I'll add to this lovely night it's great
30:39to see so many people coming out to see
30:41you Kirk and how great you're doing so
30:43Kirk and I well well I'm writing the
30:46book the the Baltimore prosecutors are
30:49still acting like Kirk is guilty and I'm
30:51like two-thirds the way through this
30:52book and I'm not quite sure how I'm
30:54going to end the thing and that's when
30:55Kirk calls be on the phone I mean he's
30:57crying he's crying you tune they got the
31:01guy we actually got that is the same in
31:03the same prison tier I mean that was and
31:05there's so many miracles in this book so
31:08the second judge in Kirk's Kirk series
31:12of trials was so concerned he was he had
31:15misgivings about the verdict and the
31:19protocol in Baltimore County at that
31:21time was after five years they destroy
31:23the evidence and the judge said you know
31:24what
31:25bring that evidence to my chambers I'm
31:27going to put it in my closet
31:29because I just have a feeling about this
31:32and so it was eight years later that Bob
31:36Moore and was able to find you forgot
31:38about it and so and so some clerk said
31:40something to Bob and he finds the
31:42evidence I mean that was one more little
31:43miracle they were there were a series of
31:45miracles but I just want to say Kirk and
31:47I after the book was written we did like
31:49a six or seven week tour around the
31:50country please
31:52we had three thousand people in st. Paul
31:55to came to see you and
31:57the lines I would you know I was the
32:00author you know signed the book and I
32:02couldn't figure out why we had these
32:04lines I mean would it be like people
32:06would be way in line for like 45 minutes
32:07and they come up and they start crying
32:10and hugging Kirk and it was like they
32:12had a cousin or a nephew or a brother or
32:14a friend or somebody who'd been
32:16exonerated and it was like I mean you
32:20remember that it was unbelievable
32:21everywhere we went yeah and then we did
32:23this one thing Kirk and I where we got
32:25invited to a Maryland state judges
32:27conference oh yeah we went out to
32:29cumberland and like 150 circuit court
32:33judges from the state of Maryland this
32:34was before the death penalty was
32:35outlawed in Maryland they give Kirk a
32:38standing ovation yeah and I was like I
32:42couldn't believe it I didn't know
32:43whether they're going to boo us off the
32:44stage what they're going to do and I
32:46mean they were all moved even the US
32:48Marshals shook her hand he they said I
32:50know who you are and then there's a the
32:53last Lou anecdote is kirkus is lobbying
32:56for this bill and in the sittin in
32:59Congress to get money for people around
33:04the country who meet certain criteria
33:06and you know could possibly be at the
33:09innocent to get money so that
33:11those those states could have the money
33:14to test the DNA for these for these
33:17certain you know potentially innocent
33:20people and it's it's held up in the
33:22Senate the house passed it the Senate
33:26has its it's mired in the Senate and
33:28Kirk goes around and gives a copy of the
33:31book it's right to 100 US senators and
33:35three weeks later passes the Senate and
33:37it was yeah
33:40it's called the Kirk Bloodsworth hlub
33:43they what's the name of the program it
33:45was like the Kirk Bloodsworth innocent
33:47protection of church was worth
33:48post-conviction DNA testing program and
33:51I meant to twenty men did it have gotten
33:54out from that program one in Tennessee
33:56yeah yeah
33:58[Applause]
34:00yeahs your story man there's a great
34:03movie Kirk thanks thanks thanks a lot
34:05way to be a part of tonight's
34:07festivities no I'm done he just took the
34:11show I will turn this over to whoever's
34:14in charge
34:16but even with him what the hell was
34:18doing right I
34:21guess
34:24I'm gonna invite him to go is that book
34:27yeah yeah is that let taminar Tim you're
34:30going to join me out here selling sign
34:32some books and
34:33you know look I want to thank the
34:35Eastern Shore
34:37and you know you guys are great they
34:40always say a Prophet's never accepted in
34:42his hometown but I'll be damned we you
34:46know we I loved I loved the Eastern
34:49Shore in Dorchester County in this part
34:51of the world you guys are awesome thank
34:53you so much thank you
34:55[Music]
34:59all right so just a second before you
35:02leave the books are out outside so you
35:05can purchase some Kirk going to be here
35:07signing them and Tim as well thank you
35:09so much for coming have a great night
35:11[Music]

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