Jarrett Adams - #WONTSTOPRUNNING Interview — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:04I was 17 years old when I was falsely
3. 0:06accused and ultimately wrongfully
4. 0:08convicted of a crime I didn't commit I
5. 0:10ended up being sentenced to serve 28
6. 0:12years in prison of that I served almost
7. 0:1510 years in prison before a group called
8. 0:17The Wisconsin Innocence Project
9. 0:19advocated on my behalf fought for my
10. 0:22release and my conviction was reversed
11. 0:24and all the charges against me were
12. 0:26dismissed I came home in February of
13. 0:282007 I was 26 turning 27 years old my
14. 0:32record was expunge but the 10e Gap in my
15. 0:35life was not the very next month I got
16. 0:38off of my mother's couch I walked almost
17. 0:403 miles and I enrolled in South Suburban
18. 0:43Community College I graduated 2 years
19. 0:45later at the top of my class I went on
20. 0:48graduated with my bachelor's degree
21. 0:50amongst the top of my class and I would
22. 0:52also go on and graduated from lyola law
23. 0:55school in Chicago in 2015 I recently
24. 0:58took and passed the New York Bar
25. 1:00and I will be starting practicing with
26. 1:03the New York Innocence Project helping
27. 1:05others in the same situation that I was
28. 1:08in the only thing that I was guilty of
29. 1:10was not having resources and so I will
30. 1:13be working with a group that Advocates
31. 1:16on behalf of the innocent who don't have
32. 1:18resources the criminal justice system
33. 1:21itself it has unfair results at times
34. 1:24it's one of these things where it's like
35. 1:25what do you do you got to keep running
36. 1:28you got to keep going and that's exactly
37. 1:30what I chose to do with my life and
38. 1:32that's what I'll do with my career I
39. 1:34won't stop running I
40. 1:36am I