Kristine Bunch Released after 16 years in Prison — Transcript

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1. 0:07[Applause]
2. 0:12[Music]
3. 0:22think it's the wall than
4. 0:27[Music]
5. 0:36[Music]
6. 0:51happy you guys are going to have to turn
7. 0:53the cameras off no cameras in the Cor
8. 1:11Christine what does this game mean to
9. 1:15you it's everything right
10. 1:18now more than I can put into
11. 1:21words more than I can
12. 1:24say Christine You' talked about this for
13. 1:27years did you believe a year ago that
14. 1:30this would be
15. 1:31happening no and now that is here it
16. 1:34still feels really
17. 1:35surreal I just want to spend some time
18. 1:38with my son what's the first thing
19. 1:39you'll do when you get
20. 1:41home probably disturb my son while I
21. 1:44watch him do
22. 1:45everything because I want to see
23. 1:48everything he does how difficult have
24. 1:50the last 16 years
25. 1:53been I don't even have words to describe
26. 1:56it did you ever give up hope no
27. 2:01like you have hope why did I have hope
28. 2:03because I knew that it was going to work
29. 2:07out in the end and I had a lot of
30. 2:10support can you imagine being out of
31. 2:12handcuffs and
32. 2:13shackles not right at this moment but
33. 2:16soon what's it going to be like when you
34. 2:18walk out the doors breathing that fresh
35. 2:20air
36. 2:23again um
37. 2:26very Serene and um I'm very
38. 2:30blessed and merciful moment for me first
39. 2:34thing you're going to eat or do I don't
40. 2:37know right now it's overwhelming to be
41. 2:40able to do anything
42. 3:09[Music]
43. 3:17thank
44. 3:26you and an amazing thing
45. 3:40this morning I said can you get off work
46. 3:41and she said yeah me too let's
47. 3:44go how did you
48. 3:46feel when they arrested you in the first
49. 3:48place when you were arrested and then
50. 3:51convicted for
51. 3:55something um I think honestly during
52. 3:58that time
53. 4:00I was in
54. 4:01shock so it's really hard to
55. 4:05articulate what I felt um where I was I
56. 4:10mean I think everybody feels kind of
57. 4:12like it's a dream and you just can't
58. 4:14believe it's happening until you wake up
59. 4:16it's happening is this is this process
60. 4:19what in a way made you say you want to
61. 4:20become a lawyer is that
62. 4:24that I believe so I worked in the law
63. 4:27library at the facility for several
64. 4:29years years and everybody needs some
65. 4:33help what do you think of the
66. 4:34Northwestern folks who came came in on I
67. 4:37cannot say enough about the Northwestern
68. 4:39folks I cannot say enough about my local
69. 4:41Council because Hillary borick started
70. 4:44out this with me and then it's
71. 4:47snowballed and Northwestern come on and
72. 4:50Shi Harden and Baker and Daniel and they
73. 4:54have been incredible yeah there's no way
74. 4:57we could have afforded the experts that
75. 5:00they were able to get cuz we started
76. 5:02talking to them and we're just blown
77. 5:04away by what she did so much for her own
78. 5:07work um atast an hour we continue to
79. 5:10push forward and so
80. 5:12we
81. 5:15finish you are cleared yes once I'm
82. 5:19fully cleared I'm going to law
83. 5:22school
84. 5:25yeah pretty sure Northwestern will take
85. 5:30have anything to do with it they will
86. 5:33what kind of law do you want to practice
87. 5:34you want to help people in the same
88. 5:35situation I want to go into criminal law
89. 5:37and I want to work on a wrongful
90. 5:39conviction
91. 5:41for there's still a lot of work to be
92. 5:43done and there's a whole lot of people
93. 5:46that are only my situation do you you
94. 5:49seem so happy obviously you're going to
95. 5:51be happy but do you do you is it would
96. 5:54seem like you might be tempted to be a
97. 5:55little bit bitter about waiting this
98. 5:56long to get out but you don't seem to
99. 5:58show that can you explain that uh yeah
100. 6:01why we don't see the in you
101. 6:04um I think because this entire time I
102. 6:08haven't been by myself I've had a family
103. 6:11that has stood by me I've had people
104. 6:14that believed in me and stepped up and
105. 6:17you can't receive blessings like that
106. 6:19and be
107. 6:21better it's you know bringing awareness
108. 6:24to what different people do it's
109. 6:27bringing awareness to how long it takes
110. 6:29get through our justice system it's
111. 6:31bringing awareness to a whole lot of
112. 6:33fronts and I think that's worth the
113. 6:37journey so how do you remain optimistic
114. 6:40then um you see my dream to you yeah