Ricky Jackson freed from prison after 39 years for wrongful murder conviction — Transcript

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1. 0:04we're here in
2. 0:07case 020 436 case of
3. 0:121975 it was in front of Judge George
4. 0:15mcmonagle and uh there was a finding of
5. 0:18guilty at that point and uh Mr Jackson
6. 0:21actually was sentenced to death in a
7. 0:25uh Penitentiary and um the appeals least
8. 0:30the took that away from the state but
9. 0:33since then there's been a motion for a
10. 0:34new trial we had a hearing a few days
11. 0:37ago and motion for a new trial was
12. 0:40granted and uh Mr
13. 0:43aala Mr you have to say anything thank
14. 0:46you h on beh of the state of Ohio
15. 0:48through re what Mr McGinty uh said the
16. 0:51other day at state of Ohio at this time
17. 0:53I Mak a motion to uh dismiss the case
18. 0:56all right this case will be dismissed uh
19. 0:58Mr Jackson you going to be free to go uh
20. 1:01me suggest to you that uh life is filled
21. 1:05with uh small victories and this is a
22. 1:06big
23. 1:07one uh know who your friends are because
24. 1:10you're going to who's going to want a
25. 1:11piece of you and you better trust the
26. 1:12people who you know you can trust so uh
27. 1:16I wish you good luck thank you thank you
28. 1:17your H all
29. 1:26[Music]
30. 1:28right
31. 1:35[Music]
32. 1:50you know it's uh extraordinary I'm very
33. 1:52happy needless to say you know words
34. 1:56can't express how I feel right now I'm
35. 1:57just glad to be out glad to be a free
36. 1:59man what are you going to do where are
37. 2:00you going to go wow I mean you know you
38. 2:03sit in prison for so long you think
39. 2:05about this day but when it actually
40. 2:07comes you don't know what you you just
41. 2:08want to do something you know besides
42. 2:10what you've been doing for 39 years okay
43. 2:13how excited are you to see Ronnie and Wy
44. 2:16well I really haven't got a chance to
45. 2:17meet him yet see him yet I saw him
46. 2:19briefly in the courtroom but I'm dying
47. 2:21to meet him I want to embrace him and
48. 2:23hug
49. 2:24him excuse me cuz we've been through a
50. 2:27lot together and we made it you know
51. 2:30here we made it just because you're in
52. 2:32prison you don't have to be a prisoner
53. 2:34you got to be a man you know and you got
54. 2:37to get yourself together regardless of
55. 2:38what the circumstances are and you got
56. 2:40to press forward you know you know
57. 2:42you're innocent you got to keep fighting
58. 2:44you
59. 2:45know what's your first meal you're going
60. 2:47to have what have you been thinking W
61. 2:48everybody ask that I mean I don't really
62. 2:50long as it's not prison
63. 2:52food you walked the courtroom today you
64. 2:55smiled at some people you waved at them
65. 2:56who were they uh family friends and I
66. 2:59mean just people I didn't really know
67. 3:00I'm just glad to see
68. 3:02people you know I'm just happy to see
69. 3:06people you know for real what are your
70. 3:08thoughts about the people who got you
71. 3:10here in the first place 39 years ago the
72. 3:13people who said you did it when you
73. 3:15didn't well um I guess a lot of people
74. 3:18would want me to hate that person and
75. 3:21feel carry animosity towards him but I
76. 3:24don't you know people have to remember
77. 3:26that they see him as a grown man today
78. 3:28but 7 75 he was a 12y old kid and he was
79. 3:32manipulated and coarsed by the police
80. 3:35you know and they they used him they
81. 3:38used him to get us in prison so as far
82. 3:41as uh that young man is concerned I wish
83. 3:43him the best I don't hate him I don't I
84. 3:46just wish he has a good life it took a
85. 3:49lot of courage to do what he did in that
86. 3:51courtroom you guys didn't see his
87. 3:52testimony he didn't hear his testimony
88. 3:54but it took a lot of courage to do what
89. 3:57he did they tried to break him they
90. 3:59tried to screw him up but at the end he
91. 4:02always said the same basic thing they
92. 4:04didn't do it I lied and that took a lot
93. 4:06of Courage for him he been carrying a
94. 4:08burden around for 39 years like we have
95. 4:11but in the end he came through and I'm
96. 4:13grateful for
97. 4:25that yes it
98. 4:27does yes it do yeah they don't f it
99. 4:34I thank
100. 4:37you all
101. 4:39right Lu all right guys thank you thank
102. 4:41you thanks everyone we're going to go
103. 4:44left go
104. 4:47right I walk here this morning