The Wrongful Conviction of Darryl Hunt: A Celebrated Case — Transcript

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1. 0:00the wrongful conviction of Darryl hunt a
2. 0:03celebrated case in a 2016 report
3. 0:08Michigan State University College of Law
4. 0:10Professor Barbara O'Brien found that
5. 0:12African American prisoners who were
6. 0:14convicted of murder are about fifty
7. 0:15percent more likely to be innocent than
8. 0:17other convicted murderers and spend
9. 0:19longer in prison before exoneration at
10. 0:2319 years old Darryl hunt was arrested
11. 0:25charged and convicted of a 1984 North
12. 0:28Carolina murder that he did not commit
13. 0:30in the early morning hours of August
14. 0:33tense 1984 Deborah Sykes a copy editor
15. 0:36at a local newspaper was raped and
16. 0:38stabbed to death in winston-salem North
17. 0:40Carolina she was 25 years old on the
18. 0:44morning of the crime a local man told
19. 0:46police he had seen psych with an
20. 0:48african-american man that day Johnny
21. 0:50gray the person who called 911 first
22. 0:52identified a different man who was in
23. 0:54jail the day of the crime later he
24. 0:56identified hunt only after he had been
25. 0:58identified by police as a suspect Hunt's
26. 1:02girlfriend initially told police she was
27. 1:04with him on the night of the crime once
28. 1:06under arrest for outstanding larceny
29. 1:08charges she told police hunt had
30. 1:10confessed to her that he committed the
31. 1:11crime she recanted the statement before
32. 1:13the trial but prosecutors presented her
33. 1:15statements to the jury nonetheless hunt
34. 1:18was tried and convicted of first-degree
35. 1:20murder on appeal the north carolina
36. 1:22supreme court overturned the conviction
37. 1:24because prosecutors introduced Hans
38. 1:26girlfriend statements after she had
39. 1:27recanted them prosecutors offered hunt a
40. 1:30plea deal of time served in exchange for
41. 1:33a guilty plea which she rejected hunt
42. 1:35was retried by an all-white jury and was
43. 1:37again convicted and sentenced to life in
44. 1:39prison in 1994 DNA results requested by
45. 1:44her attorneys came back and proved hunt
46. 1:46did not match the sample found on psych
47. 1:48body despite this Ernst appeals were
48. 1:50rejected on the grounds that this
49. 1:52evidence did not prove innocence finally
50. 1:56in 2005 19 years after hunt was
51. 1:58convicted and 10 years after he was
52. 2:00excluded by DNA he was exonerated after
53. 2:03the DNA profile from the crime scene
54. 2:05matched a man who was incarcerated for
55. 2:07another murder Willard eat brown the man
56. 2:10whose DNA matched the profile of that at
57. 2:13the crime
58. 2:13scene later pleaded guilty to the murder
59. 2:15of Deborah Sykes on February 19 2007 the
60. 2:20City of winston-salem settled with hunt
61. 2:22in his lawsuit against the city hunt was
62. 2:24awarded 1.6 million hunt passed away on
63. 2:27March thirteenth 2016 a documentary
64. 2:31titled the trials of Darryl hunt was
65. 2:33named a Sundance Film Festival selection
66. 2:35in 2006