Jarrett Adams Fights For Others Who Are Wrongfully Convicted via NowThis — Transcript

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1. 0:02[Music]
2. 0:06i want you to think about this
3. 0:08our society has continued to advance
4. 0:12since the constitution was created we've
5. 0:14advanced in
6. 0:15technology and infrastructure but the
7. 0:18one thing that we haven't advanced in
8. 0:20was our criminal justice system that's
9. 0:23why these cases are so important
10. 0:32having gone through it and i
11. 0:35not only spent 10 years in prison but
12. 0:38my mother my aunts they were in prison
13. 0:40as well watching me
14. 0:41serve this time to look at them and to
15. 0:44see what it did to them
16. 0:45and now to be able to prevent this from
17. 0:48other families
18. 0:50i'm destined to do it
19. 1:01wavelength presented the image of a
20. 1:03quiet little
21. 1:04quaint town it took me a short period of
22. 1:07time
23. 1:08to realize the mayor chose me
24. 1:11as the chief because the black
25. 1:14population of wavery
26. 1:17was revolting at what was happening to
27. 1:20their town
28. 1:21i needed new officers alan was one who
29. 1:24applied
30. 1:32officer gibson was in a wooded area
31. 1:34behind this apartment complex when the
32. 1:35fight with his two suspected killers
33. 1:37started
34. 1:38somehow his gun got away from him he was
35. 1:40shot in the abdomen
36. 1:41i mean it's been 20 years i always try
37. 1:45not to think about this
38. 1:46[Music]
39. 1:48what happened that day
40. 2:00there is no fingerprints on the gun
41. 2:02there is no dna
42. 2:04there is no blood there are no drugs
43. 2:06there are no proceeds from drugs
44. 2:08there is nothing to this case besides
45. 2:11testimony
46. 2:12of people who had incentive to
47. 2:21it's lie rather serious charges you
48. 2:24understand
49. 2:25that's right then uh i realized
50. 2:29there could be something wrong here
51. 2:51[Music]
52. 2:54too much time is going back so people
53. 2:56don't understand
54. 2:58having to visit your loved one on a
55. 3:00christmas a thanksgiving
56. 3:02every year birthday is so
57. 3:06hard when you grew up literally together
58. 3:17advantages
59. 3:19to to me representing someone in a case
60. 3:22like this
61. 3:22is i've been through it before so i'm
62. 3:24able to relate to the family in a way
63. 3:26that
64. 3:27i don't know of any lawyers that can
65. 3:39you