Kirk Bloodsworth, part 2 — Transcript

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1. 0:00forth as many times as I ever cared
2. 0:02through a man I grew up as a commercial
3. 0:05fishing I'm supposed to be fishing I'm
4. 0:07not supposed to be doing
5. 0:09this but I guess I'm a fisher of men
6. 0:21am now after the trial last I went to
7. 0:24one of the most notorious prisons in the
8. 0:26United States in Baltimore City Mar
9. 0:30entry at 954 for Street where just 2
10. 0:33weeks before I got there guard had been
11. 0:36disembed this is where I was at
12. 0:40accused and branded the worst thing
13. 0:43possible a child
14. 0:46killer I stepped off that bus and
15. 0:48handcuffs and shackles and waist chain
16. 0:51and took those little tiny steps you
17. 0:53have to
18. 0:54take that 300 and some lb door slammed
19. 0:58shut on my wife and I could touch either
20. 1:02wall by going like
21. 1:07this I could take three steps and be to
22. 1:10the
23. 1:11front from the back of the cell but this
24. 1:14was my place the stainless still to sit
25. 1:16there in a
26. 1:20rack I have a kindred spirit photograph
27. 1:24this
28. 1:25man standing to my
29. 1:28left unique but it's not unique to 130
30. 1:33other eight former death row inmates who
31. 1:36have been exonerated by other means only
32. 1:4017 of those have been DNA
33. 1:43ex I thought my life was
34. 1:46over I've seen people get so mortified
35. 1:50and so caught up in this place that I
36. 1:52called home now because this was my
37. 1:55life death
38. 1:57row I seen him get so up in it that they
39. 2:00would take two number two pencils and
40. 2:02shove them right through their eyes
41. 2:05because they didn't want to see it
42. 2:06anymore they didn't want to feel it
43. 2:10anymore hang them hung themselves or
44. 2:14took drugs and just went off and people
45. 2:18it was a horrible
46. 2:19place to
47. 2:21be but this was my
48. 2:25life I started reading every book I
49. 2:27could possibly think of and figure out
50. 2:30way to get back in court I was an
51. 2:33innocent man so that meant to me that
52. 2:35the real killer was still out there I
53. 2:38had to go find out who this 6'5 curly
54. 2:41blond hair man was and get freedom from
55. 2:45me but not just for
56. 2:47me for d
57. 2:49h like Bonita sitting over here the
58. 2:52victims all this is etches rap against
59. 2:56us the judge didn't take no time to S me
60. 3:02death and that's what it was my case was
61. 3:05overturned in 19 886 by a piece of law
62. 3:10called Brady information this means that
63. 3:12the police department or I mean the
64. 3:14prosecutors in this case in Baltimore
65. 3:16County this is where the case TR
66. 3:19withheld information about another a
67. 3:23suspect actually there was held a lot of
68. 3:26things we can't withhold the truth
69. 3:29anymore an adversarial system that just
70. 3:32it cannot be adversarial it's the
71. 3:37truth this was my life and I went
72. 3:39through a new trial and everybody come
73. 3:42back and point out five identification
74. 3:44Witnesses and all that's the
75. 3:47God is the bar there that's the GU
76. 3:50that's
77. 3:51him all of us one right after the other
78. 3:56they held a line up on a Monday I was
79. 3:58arrested on the Thursday all the
80. 4:00witnesses in the case not to watch
81. 4:02t said don't watch t you arrested the
82. 4:05suspect and by the way his name
83. 4:08is I wonder to think you have left that
84. 4:13part my life was indeed over the court
85. 4:19rendered me guilty again and I went back
86. 4:22to prison an
87. 4:25in along I went through so many
88. 4:27different trials and tribulations in
89. 4:29place I had nowhere to go nowhere to be
90. 4:32I just
91. 4:35was I had nothing to do I just could
92. 4:38read and try to figure out what was
93. 4:40wrong I read every book from Stephen
94. 4:42King to gal psychology and try to find
95. 4:45some piece in this world the Bible Quran
96. 4:48everything I could think of it to get
97. 4:50closer to some spiritual meaning for all
98. 4:58this and nothing came but one
99. 5:02day I was sitting in uh myself C and the
100. 5:06priest sent down two officers to talk to
101. 5:10me and this was in
102. 5:131993 I had already submitted for DNA
103. 5:18dioxy Rob ACI I was the first one from a
104. 5:22capital conviction who ever submit such
105. 5:24a
106. 5:25test I didn't know that at the time I
107. 5:27really didn't care about that wanted to
108. 5:30get my
109. 5:33freedom the priest was sitting there in
110. 5:35the little room and the lady friend had
111. 5:38come to see me every week from the
112. 5:41church was sitting there and you were
113. 5:43both
114. 5:44weeping and I knew something had
115. 5:48happened my mother passed
116. 5:51away he died just 5 months before the
117. 5:57real truth came out
118. 6:00I had to go to see her in handcuffs and
119. 6:03shackles and kiss her goodbye and go
120. 6:05back to that place I called home my
121. 6:10life but my mother was the reason I
122. 6:12could read the book that found out the
123. 6:15truth in
124. 6:16my and she used to tell me and I was
125. 6:19crying and the priest was talking to
126. 6:21me Kurt don't Despair and I all a sudden
127. 6:24I hear my mother she was about this
128. 6:2812 looked up to me and said that that's
129. 6:31unbelievable you're my
130. 6:35son but she told me how to read and she
131. 6:38used to say things like stand up for
132. 6:41something or you'll fall for
133. 6:45anything and stand up for your
134. 6:49friends just stand up and I was in this
135. 6:52van I was going back to Jess to uh go
136. 6:56back to this cell and I hear my mother's
137. 6:58voice resonate just like through this my
138. 7:00voice is resonating through this Hall
139. 7:02through this
140. 7:04church stand up and it got louder and I
141. 7:07could hear my mother's voice and it said
142. 7:09stand up and it got louder by the time I
143. 7:11got back to the Jess Annex where I was
144. 7:15St at the
145. 7:17cut I was literally off the floor
146. 7:20straining against the chains with just
147. 7:22grin on my face and tears streaming down
148. 7:25my
149. 7:27face because I also remember the last
150. 7:30thing I could remember was my mother
151. 7:32said right is
152. 7:38light I knew that the truth in my life
153. 7:42was coming
154. 7:43back on June uh 28th
155. 7:471993 the DNA results came back and I was
156. 7:51100% excluded as a person responsible
157. 7:54for D Hamilton's
158. 7:58murder
159. 8:05but that life was sure live cuz when I
160. 8:07got out the prosecutors in this case
161. 8:09said well if we had DNA evidence in 1984
162. 8:13we wouldn't have prosecuted Mr
163. 8:14Bloodworth but we're not prepared to say
164. 8:16he's
165. 8:23innocent what is wrong with these
166. 8:26people I have no idea and I kept pushing
167. 8:30and every time I talk about the case and
168. 8:32I go in front of Congress and I speak in
169. 8:34front of Congress about this thing
170. 8:36called the innocent protection act and
171. 8:38then it's DNA testing program it's now
172. 8:40called the KT bloodsworth post
173. 8:42conviction DNA testing program try to
174. 8:44help men that have DNA but we don't have
175. 8:47no DNA all the time out of 138 people
176. 8:51that have been exonerated 177 of them
177. 8:54are DNA exonerations we have to have all
178. 8:57the needs like seven Witnesses Rec a
179. 9:00testimony
180. 9:08about you had that little
181. 9:11B it's changed it's all changed
182. 9:15everybody's telling something else it's
183. 9:18a story like M said we've been Hood
184. 9:28WI
185. 9:30and it's got to
186. 9:34change I pushed and pushed and push to
187. 9:37get the DNA test done in D Hamilton's
188. 9:40case and guess what they were so
189. 9:42interested in solving this CRI when I
190. 9:44caught them I said look I got this new
191. 9:46thing it's called cotus it's a DNA
192. 9:49database where you have all these people
193. 9:50it's a National Database have a state
194. 9:52database and it was all combined with
195. 9:54all these different things
196. 9:58and I said let's submit the test we
197. 10:00don't have the money Mr BL I said well
198. 10:02how much can it be I'll pay for it I
199. 10:05don't
200. 10:06care he said we can't do that Mr blor if
201. 10:09you're still a suspect that would be
202. 10:12unable
203. 10:17really now the day I was released in
204. 10:201993 did they get it in 1994 when I was
205. 10:24Bor and got $300,000 from my trouble
206. 10:30that's $3.50 an
207. 10:32hour or more maybe a couple
208. 10:36P did they test the evidence in ' 94 95
209. 10:4196 97 98 99 2000 2001 2002
210. 10:482003 the fall of that year they
211. 10:52fin submitted to DNA in D Hamilton's Mur
212. 10:55case 10 years
213. 10:58later
214. 11:00I was sitting in my office and the phone
215. 11:02rang and it was right on the caller IDE
216. 11:04it said Baltimore County
217. 11:07government I thought the last time I
218. 11:09talked to them it didn't turn out too
219. 11:14well but I answered the voice I answered
220. 11:16the phone and was a same shill voice I
221. 11:18heard in two murder trials calling me a
222. 11:22monster said don't be fooled by the
223. 11:24monster that sits in that
224. 11:27chair Sy OD remember what the witnesses
225. 11:30said about
226. 11:32the they had a man that identified me on
227. 11:36TV that they called aible
228. 11:40wit and let him come to the
229. 11:44line so this voice this woman it was an
230. 11:48Brook the prosecuting attorney that
231. 11:50called me a monster was on the other
232. 11:52line Mr Bloods worth I want to talk to
233. 11:54you and I'll meet you anywhere in the
234. 11:56state we have an update on the Hamilton
235. 11:58murder case I can't tell you over the
236. 12:01telephone so I met her at the Burger
237. 12:03King in Cambridge and she sat there and
238. 12:08told me that they had a cold hit in the
239. 12:11database of the real killer of dawn
240. 12:16H and guess what he was not
241. 12:196'5 he was
242. 12:225'6
243. 12:2460b and he lived break down a tear from
244. 12:27me
245. 12:30years it's a tragedy that we live in in
246. 12:34this world when on flimsy
247. 12:38evidence weak is
248. 12:40water we cannot execute a
249. 12:45man K to sh R play guilty to Dawn
250. 12:48Hamilton's
251. 12:51murder he got M from prison because I
252. 12:54told the uh prosecutors in this case Mr
253. 12:58blood you want us to do you got the
254. 13:00death py for
255. 13:02this and I said
256. 13:13no he not going
257. 13:16nowhere he don't have he not going a
258. 13:19place he's stuck in a room he's never
259. 13:21going to get out of and the sentence
260. 13:22don't even
261. 13:23start until after he finished his 45
262. 13:26years sentence he got in fory trying to
263. 13:29rape another woman in F point he was
264. 13:31originally released 2 weeks before Don
265. 13:33Hamilton's murder for two attempted
266. 13:35rapes at two little girls in the
267. 13:37Baltimore area and slipped through the
268. 13:43cracks he pled guilty to avoid the death
269. 13:46by and I did not stop because now I can
270. 13:49hold himself accountable what he's
271. 13:52done it's not that we don't want to
272. 13:55punish these folks we just can't take
273. 13:56their life no more because if you do
274. 14:00that you're going to kill
275. 14:03me or youry Davis
276. 14:16wow so I'm telling each and every one of
277. 14:19you as you sit here today and look at me
278. 14:22you're looking at Troy
279. 14:25Davis you're looking at tro Davis you
280. 14:29looking into one of themselves look in
281. 14:31the mirror you're Troy
282. 14:34Davis you cannot stop this we need to
283. 14:38stop this execution in the death in in
284. 14:41the United
285. 14:43States it is imperative in this
286. 14:47execution must be
287. 14:49Haled I wrote a letter to the governor a
288. 14:52long time ago when Cho case first came
289. 14:56out and