Ronald Taylor - Innocence Project Interview — Transcript

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1. 0:00they just went way out
2. 0:02man they just went way out they just got
3. 0:05a conviction they they did whatever they
4. 0:06could do to get a conviction they got
5. 0:09it yep they sure did when I went to
6. 0:13arment they
7. 0:16uh they they boast they Case by we got
8. 0:20we we have blood we have hair samples we
9. 0:24have Seamon samples we have we we we got
10. 0:28enough to convict him we got him
11. 0:31[Music]
12. 0:46when I went to
13. 0:47court
14. 0:49again the whole story changed just like
15. 0:52your
16. 0:53honor the only evidence we have against
17. 0:55Mr Taylor is the victim the
18. 1:00the victim's testimony and the victim's
19. 1:04identification when they gave the
20. 1:06verdict it was like it didn't just
21. 1:07destroy me or anything I just it was no
22. 1:10sense in being destroyed you know that's
23. 1:12how a lot of dudes go to prison and come
24. 1:15out mly unstable because they let they
25. 1:17let their situation ride them in the
26. 1:19ground I didn't do that I just you know
27. 1:21I didn't let the time do me I just did
28. 1:23it you know so I was able to make it and
29. 1:26I was every day I would write somebody
30. 1:28or do something every day
31. 1:30day till I got out and I got out I
32. 1:34always knew I would get out I got out
33. 1:36that was a great
34. 1:37day yeah that was a great day I got to
35. 1:41go over to deer's
36. 1:43office to to speak in front of them that
37. 1:47day and that was a good thing because
38. 1:50Texas got so many people down there when
39. 1:53this all said and done that that stay
40. 1:55there I don't know they got so many
41. 1:57people down incarcerated I know I I
42. 2:00could I know about three or four guys
43. 2:03right now and I've been out for a little
44. 2:05while now that I would bet my freedom on
45. 2:09that they not
46. 2:10get I would bet my I go back to prison
47. 2:14if they
48. 2:15get that's how convinced I am that they
49. 2:18not
50. 2:19get guarantee you I come from a stubborn
51. 2:22State and I don't know how much they
52. 2:25going to change but if they change a
53. 2:27little bit then it's all been worth it
54. 2:31if they just changed her hair it's been
55. 2:34all worth it everything I went through
56. 2:36was worth it
57. 2:39[Music]