Kirk Bloodsworth, first DNA death row exoneree — Transcript

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1. 0:00that chair members of the committee my
2. 0:06name is Kurt Poulos
3. 0:08I am the interim executive director of
4. 0:11wits but also had another long I'm the
5. 0:16first death row exoneree to be
6. 0:19exonerated by push conviction DNA test I
7. 0:22happened to spend about eight years ten
8. 0:25months and 19 days in prison where I met
9. 0:31in 1984 a little girl by the name of
10. 0:35dawn Denise and was found brutally
11. 0:37murdered in a wooded area near a home
12. 0:40search ensued for the killer he was
13. 0:44described as his father six with five
14. 0:47curly blond hair bushy mustache tanned
15. 0:51skin in 1984 my hair was as red as a
16. 0:57fire Jack I hide my sanity huge red as
17. 1:06well
18. 1:06I don't tan because I'm afraid this was
19. 1:10one of many red flags to go off in the
20. 1:14dawn Hamilton murder investigation it
21. 1:17was one of the most brutal crimes in our
22. 1:20state's history everybody wanted to
23. 1:23death though everybody called for it
24. 1:26they called for it in two different
25. 1:28trials tomorrow they didn't get it in
26. 1:31the second trial time at that point you
27. 1:35wanted to notice notorious prisons in
28. 1:36the United States the Maryland
29. 1:38penitentiary at 9:00
30. 1:40Baltimore City where a guard had been
31. 1:42disemboweled by proceeded minutes off
32. 1:45from another enemy this was my life you
33. 1:49were talking earlier about the
34. 1:50conditions inside of a prison
35. 1:52well let me give you a little bliss I
36. 1:55could touch either wall of myself by
37. 1:57going just like that I could take three
38. 2:00steps from the back wall and beat at the
39. 2:02front so I have a metal rack a stainless
40. 2:06steel pole of the same this was my life
41. 2:10I'm going to talk about something both
42. 2:13the end the test was taken and I was
43. 2:18cleared and dissolved in the real killer
44. 2:24ten years after this is 19 years in the
45. 2:27beginning to the end was finally called
46. 2:30the things Kimberley Schaefer he was not
47. 2:33six to the Father he was 5 foot 65
48. 2:40identification witnesses positively
49. 2:42identified me as the last person seen
50. 2:46they were all wrong way strong to juries
51. 2:50the wrong
52. 2:51everybody is wrong ie the organization I
53. 2:55belong to is a group of individuals who
54. 2:59are all death row survives 163 stand on
55. 3:04me including myself all have similar
56. 3:08stories just like I support this bill
57. 3:14Bob Cousy can happen to the hanafuda
58. 3:18start of a ring we've done criminal
59. 3:20record criminal history he can happen
60. 3:23depending on there in New Hampshire
61. 3:26please