Urban Xcellence: Jarrett Adams, once wrongfully convicted now helps others — Transcript

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1. 0:00so we have urban excellent story oh we
2. 0:03have an urban excellent story one story
3. 0:05okay one story we didn't get a lot of
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12. 0:31underscore NYC and now I want to see I
13. 0:33want to see some young college students
14. 0:35going to college yeah hey by people
15. 0:37going to check it into your room for the
16. 0:39first time your dorm room you're excited
17. 0:42your parents are there they don't want
18. 0:45to let you go cuz I already told out of
19. 0:47seat you know I'm gonna have a hard time
20. 0:48she's gone she leaves next year so I
21. 0:50have one year I can't wait and I did the
22. 0:53math you know and I said I want to give
23. 0:55her ten thousand hugs she said she was
24. 0:57three hundred days before she goes in
25. 1:00and it it equaled out to three hundred
26. 1:02hugs a tweet was a three thousand those
27. 1:04three hugs 300 hugs a day no it was
28. 1:08three hundred I said ten thousand hugs
29. 1:12how many days divided by three hundred
30. 1:22nine days that's 32 okay yeah that's
31. 1:263233 hugs a day all right I was wrong
32. 1:2832 hugs a day then I have to post Oh
33. 1:32upon how to get my ten cents you get one
34. 1:34she don't let me get one and she go dad
35. 1:36what what what yeah I'm like damn well
36. 1:39I'm gonna get these ten thousand so they
37. 1:42just gonna be your crowing but long
38. 1:44story short it's gonna be a proud moment
39. 1:45we you know when we take our daughter
40. 1:47for her moment you know that's an urban
41. 1:51excellent story that's the car the next
42. 1:52in the story so parents are doing it now
43. 1:54and you nervous you got everything and
44. 1:57your talents going mom I got it
45. 1:59ya gotta over pack everybody we gotta
46. 2:02meet you roommate and you hope y'all
47. 2:04cool and you know I'm saying so it's
48. 2:07it's a process my roommate was cool
49. 2:09shout out to Jaron he what he listens to
50. 2:10the podcast Jeremy listen to the part
51. 2:12Oh sad nope y'all I told y'all a month
52. 2:24ago
53. 2:24then I was all got my GED right I told
54. 2:28you and I honest II just came out to dad
55. 2:30you don't have a GED and I said listen I
56. 2:33got the GED so wifey mailed off the
57. 2:37application and lo and behold in the
58. 2:41mail the GED show up right and so now
59. 2:51now there's gonna be a ceremony here
60. 2:54right everybody has to dress up I'm
61. 2:56wearing a cap and gown and we are doing
62. 2:59a that was the back that was the back
63. 3:01right if Dad GE shows up so now we
64. 3:05haven't done da da da da and we gonna
65. 3:08film this [ __ ] and we gonna show this
66. 3:10[ __ ] to y'all cuz that's how we do here
67. 3:12you know I mean so pick me up pick me up
68. 3:16on it as a matter of fact and I see you
69. 3:21[ __ ] with me I'll be going to college
70. 3:23wit up cuz now I got the papers and [ __ ]
71. 3:26and wolf I have my back we'll be going
72. 3:29to college together and that shouldn't
73. 3:31be real awkward with these dudes try to
74. 3:33talk to us okay so yeah yeah I got that
75. 3:36stay tuned for the graduation it's going
76. 3:40but okay this story of urban excellence
77. 3:44goes out to Jarrett Adams
78. 3:45okay he was wrongfully convicted of
79. 3:48sexual assault crime when he was 17 17
80. 3:53okay right he did ten years and he did
81. 3:55ten years in jail he did ten years in
82. 3:57jail
83. 3:58yes Wow so while he was injured he
84. 4:01started reading you know law books and
85. 4:03Supreme Court cases okay okay and he got
86. 4:06in contact with a lawyer and then when a
87. 4:08lawyer came to LA say yeah he knew this
88. 4:10case inside now he knew what he he knew
89. 4:13everything
90. 4:13hmm and then he wound up getting
91. 4:16released off of all the charges dropped
92. 4:20off of ineffective assistance of counsel
93. 4:23Oh
94. 4:25black man free yes beat the case and
95. 4:28that the way he got his charges bribed
96. 4:31that was the same I was like the same
97. 4:33kind of cases he was he had been
98. 4:34studying so when he was reading up on it
99. 4:37he was kind of like oh he was following
100. 4:39the protocol in the process he said that
101. 4:41when he had sex with a girl it was
102. 4:43consensual all the way through he got
103. 4:45picked that three weeks later hmm
104. 4:47and then he had never been arrested
105. 4:49before right so he was thinking I this
106. 4:51is gonna work herself out and be good
107. 4:53they got it he was extradited to west
108. 4:55constant right where the laws a little
109. 4:58bit different they were I don't know if
110. 5:00he could afford okay okay okay
111. 5:03and then um so of course public
112. 5:04defenders we're not a public defender he
113. 5:06doing
114. 5:07I'd rather defend myself right right and
115. 5:10he said that the public defender was
116. 5:12saying him like you know they don't have
117. 5:14anything on you you'll be fine you want
118. 5:16to learn a job so once he got released
119. 5:19it may actually was he having sex with a
120. 5:21white woman I'm not sure okay that
121. 5:25sounds sound have sex with a black girl
122. 5:29ago okay you know what a white woman
123. 5:32that's that's what's constant to you
124. 5:34guys yeah Wisconsin I'm willing to bet
125. 5:36my life yeah he was doing as my mother
126. 5:40would call oh snow bunny he was doing a
127. 5:42snow bunny but that's neither here nor
128. 5:43there right all right he didn't rape her
129. 5:46right all right so he got out of he got
130. 5:48an O seven uh-huh right got his
131. 5:51bachelor's degree and he went to law
132. 5:53school oh crap that graduated in 2015
133. 5:56graduated and
134. 5:58fifteen okay and I'm here last year he
135. 6:04got his first win in the courtroom
136. 6:06forgetting somebody else off of a sexual
137. 6:08assault case Wow so now his mission does
138. 6:11is to take on cases of other people yes
139. 6:14who have been wrongly accused and see
140. 6:17same saying so not that he needed to go
141. 6:19to jail to understand what his mission
142. 6:21was but the fact that that time stilled
143. 6:24him and forced him to study now he
144. 6:28understands the law inside and out and
145. 6:30now he is a vanguard for those who are
146. 6:33wrongly accused I gotta clap that up
147. 6:35again there bro we appreciate you
148. 6:41brother looks good you're not on me and
149. 6:44now he looks like he's ready to fight
150. 6:46you're not I mean so so that was doing
151. 6:49that's a dope story or you know hashtag
152. 6:51urban excellence is where we pick
153. 6:53ourselves up for my bootstraps and we
154. 6:56never let the system all this kind of
155. 6:58stuff to feed us and in the end he's the
156. 7:02winner in the end he's the winner Thanks
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