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on December 7th 1989 in Lake County there's been a series of bump rapes and robs
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occurring and what that means is you're a single woman driving alone at night your car gets
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bumped and they would grab you rob you and sexually assault you the victim in this case she's been out that night
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drinking she's driving home and she's bumped and she gets out of her car and she's assaulted taken into another
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vehicle and she says raped by five men but there's a racial component here the five attackers were black the woman was
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white it was terrorizing the community and they wanted arrests at all costs perhaps I had the responsibility I was a
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detective Lieutenant I had a free hand I received no interference from anybody whoever perpetrated this crime
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were monsters my next reaction was can we as prosecutors prove Beyond reasonable out the identity of the
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persons who perpetrated this crime we obtained two convictions out of five people that raped this
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girl I didn't do it I couldn't do it I wouldn't do it and when you heard the word rape it s
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chills to me I couldn't believe that my name was being associated with such a crime when the judge said 75 years I'm
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38 years old that's like a death sentence I'mma die in prison for a crime I didn't
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do and one night I hit by bom and I U attempted to take my life I dreamed of a professor and law
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students coming to my rescue I used to see it on TV all the time then one day I said I got my dream
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team do you believe 100% that these two men are innocent yes absolutely 100% % yes the more you read the case you see
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all the factors leading to wrongful convictions like jail house niches ineffective assistance of counsel junk
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science how confident are you that Daryl Pinkins and Roosevelt Glenn raped that woman 100% no questions no questions we
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had DNA evidence that was taken off for clothing what was your first impression when you read the vile I was confused uh
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because the DNA was already done done and it excluded both of those men when it's not you in the DNA it's
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not you zero nothing to talk about and everybody knew it before trial they had to have known
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it every night I pray for my son and the only thing I can do is trust that the Lord will keep him safe so he can come
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out [Music] [Music] [Applause] for nearly two decades Sally Glenn went to prison every other weekend to visit
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her son Roosevelt it would hurt me and won we leave that would cry Glenn's daughter darnice just seven when
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her father went to prison was Often by her grandmother's side on those visits I was nervous for him due to the fact I
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knew he was a very Innocent Man Behind Bars with very bad criminals I had suicide all over me for a while
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[Music] and what stopped you I believe it was the power of God I was a good man before I went to prison
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but I wasn't a man of Faith prison changed my way of thinking and it made me a man of
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Faith how do you survive in that environment you have to become colder as far as emotions because I don't trust
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people like I used to I don't know if they realize you pretty much taking the most
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valuable thing people have time says Daryl Pink's son Damian I feel like I've lost the most important time of my life
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where a a son bonds with his father and becomes a man Mildred Pinkins lost her eldest son
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I just couldn't imagine him being locked up your child my child he'd never been in trouble before why
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now I've got one job as a detective to get to the truth the trouble started nearly three decades ago when retired
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detective Lieutenant Mike Solen worked so diligently to solve a brutal rape case in Hammond Indiana I want you
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understand something Morin when you do a criminal investigation you watch where the evidence takes you
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and you follow it this was tunnel vision police work and they let the real bad guys go Indiana University law professor
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Fran Watson runs the University's wrongful conviction Clinic he took he took from where every semester law
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students like Max Polly and Brenda eagerly sign up to help Watson investigate cases did it change your
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opinion about the law or the system I guess I started my career knowing that the system can fail for the last 15
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years Professor Watson has enlisted hundreds of her students to help her battle detective Solen and the entire
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judicial system to overturn the convictions of Roosevelt Glenn and Daryl Pinkins you start looking in the case
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thinking Fran can not possibly be right about this I mean these people got convicted for a reason their first
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assignment study the case File the scientific evidence a victim ID the political pressure to solve the case
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quickly and accusations of racism all of a sudden each of us had our own aha moments it was about 1:00 a.m. December
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7th 1989 and the first of two bumping robs that would occur that night was about to take place flight attendant
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Jill Martin was on her way home on Interstate 65 not far from Hammond when she was bumped from behind a car
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occupied by at least three black males she pulls over and the car pulls in front of
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her and then a man comes out of the driver's side of that car and calmly walks to her car and the black man says
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are you all right ma'am fortunately for her a pickup truck was coming down the highway and started
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to pull behind them thinking it was an accident all three blacks walked rapidly to that car got in and
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left Jill Martin said the men took off still she was able to get a good look at their car and write down a partial
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license plate number about 30 minutes later another bumping robod the victim in this case who we
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will call Jane was also on her way home 26-year-old Jane was stopped at this traffic light just one block from
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her home and husband when she was bumped from behind so she got out of the car and she walked to the back of her
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car and a black man gets out of the car and walks very calmly very leisurely to her and says are you all right ma'am the
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exact same words flight attendant Jill Martin reported hearing less than an hour
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earlier but this time there was no Escape before she has a chance to respond he grabs her by the arm Jane
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says it all happened so fast two other men appeared grabbed her from behind and forced her into their car then both cars
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sped off Jane would later report that she was strip naked and all five men took turns brutally assaulting her in
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the back seat of their car she gave a very detailed statement to Lieutenant s lot former Lake County
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prosecutor Joe Kash it's her testimony that all five men ejaculated mhm Solen had the rapist Seaman giving him their
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DNA but the national DNA database did not exist yet so he still had to find the attackers but Solen did have these
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workman's coveralls also called greens Jane's attackers had used them to cover her eyes she was still clutching them
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when she was forced back into her own car and released westtech Lot number 311 was stamped into the greens there was a
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tag there saying size medium Solen tracked every pair of medium coverall stamped West Tech slot number
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311 until he got to a Scrap Metal Management company called Lura brothers and I took the greens out of the bag and
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I held them up okay Kevin bar who takes care of green says if those are greens I
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know who we gave them to Roosevelt Glenn was an employee at Lura brothers who wore medium-sized greens 4 days after
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the attack Glenn reported his coveralls had been stolen on the night in question
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two more employees had also submitted and signed reports stating that their cover Ralls were stolen that night as
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well darl Pinkins and a named Bill Duran because they signed those sheets they attached to each other that the night of
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the rape they were together when they left luer brothers that's not all Solen track to
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luria Brothers based on descriptions given by both women Solen determined that the car the attackers were driving
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that night was a 1970s green Pontiac Catalina so he tracked down every single registered car in the area that fit the
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description fortunately there were only nine in Lake and Porter Count's registered cars of that nature seven
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belonging to white people two belonging to black people one of those two cars belonged to Gary Daniels a janitor at
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Lua Brothers Solen now believed he had a fourth rape suspect there was just one problem remember Jill Martin had given
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police a partial license plate number did the plate match on Gary Daniel's car no but the plates did match a car that
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had been stolen the night before the attack Solen contends the men stole that car sold it for scrap metal and put the
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stolen plates on Daniel's car why not just use the stolen vehicle I can't answer that question other than the fact
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that they stole the car but the fact is these men were never charged with stealing any car and no DNA was ever
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found in Daniel's car linking it to the crime Solen still needed one more suspect Jane said five men attacked her
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so Solen went back to lria brothers and found a fifth suspect Barry Jackson what
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did you have on Jackson Jackson everybody said he's out with them all hours of the night and that was enough
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for the judges to say okay Solen easily got an arrest warrant for all five men I remember him coming to my house
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knocking on my door and asking me why don't you tell your son to plead guilty I said oh no D is not guilty of
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nothing and I slammed the door in his face and I told him don't come to my house anymore
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[Music] [Music] Roosevelt Glenn who like Daryl Pinkins had never been in trouble with the law
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it's okay take your time we'll never forget the day he was arrested and charged with a monstrous
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crime it was it was a little hard because I know the picture they was painting of me was
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fur furthest from the truth I mean it was like a night and day situation well I'm a rape Advocate and I
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knew that he didn't fit all those characteristics like that me and my sister are probably as close as two
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siblings could possibly be Glenn's Sister Rita Stout says because of her work with rape victims she knew the
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Hammond Police Department she knew Detective stolen and she knew her brother was no rapist so it was that
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night that we started fighting for him and you're still fighting to clear his name yes and I won't
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stop Roosevelt doesn't deny that those were likely his coveralls I I don't think he can deny those are likely his
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coveralls Glenn says there is an explanation nearly 2 hours before the brutal gang rape he he was at laua
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Brothers with co-workers Daryl Pinkins and Bill Duran it was 11:00 p.m. and their shifts had just ended the men say
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that they all got into Bill Duran's car with the plan to stop at the local liquor store to cash their checks grab a
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beer and go home but before we can get there his car start having problems he said it's my oil I don't
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have any oil in the car it was running hot so we left there the three of us walking they exit Duran's car and they
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walk away and there's a state police Trooper he sees them walking away from that disabled vehicle so it's Undisputed
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the car broke down and they walked away from it on a frigid night the men say they took only what they needed and
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walked to a pay phone Roosevelt called a friend who picked them up and then let Roosevelt use her car after we dropped
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her off we went to cash our paychecks and the lady there she was very nice she you know she SE us all the time and so
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she said you guys are late I said yeah the car broke down from there they bought two quarts
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of oil and headed back to Bill Duran's car and that's when we found out that the windows had been broken out the car
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had been broken into the passenger side window was shattered two shopping bags and a duffel bag which had been in plain
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sight were now gone inside those bags three Workman coveralls he does not dispute that those
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are his greens he said those are my greens they were stolen from the car that's a story he gavee Solen was so
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sure he had the right guys that he urged the men to confess he told Daryl Pinkins
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DNA was better than a fingerprint then if we didn't do the crime DNA would surely exonerate us so we told them well
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bring the test on but long before the test results were in there was a stunning turn of events
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for nearly 5 months the victim Jane had insisted she could not would not ID the suspects she had even refused to
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participate in any physical or photo lineups then she showed up here at the courthouse for a hearing the place was
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jammed Morin even people standing against the wall Solen says Daryl Pinkins out on bail and wearing street
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clothes walked into the packed courtroom through the front door the moment Jane saw him she reportedly recognized Daryl
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as the rapist who first approached her car Solen now had Jane's ID of Daryl Pinkins the coveralls that belonged to
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Roosevelt Glenn and a hair found on Jane's clothing an expert was prepared to testify that it matched the hair on
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Glenn's head when they said they had my hair I was like run every test you got it's not my hair the hair had no root so
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at the time there was no way to test it for DNA but the state could test several
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seamen stains found on Jane's sweater and jacket for DNA 3 months after Jane identified Daryl Pinkins the results
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were in and it's those stains that deran Pinkins Glenn Jackson Daniels are all excluded
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from those men did not contribute to those stains the test results showed three clear DNA profiles in the mixtures the
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victim and two men neither of which were a match to any of the five men arrested
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there was additional male DNA in the mixture but it was missing unique DNA markers from each of the five men which
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means according to DNA expert Greg kekian there is no way any of the five men arrested contributed to the stains
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it's like the phone number begins with the number eight and your phone number does not begin with a number eight
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you're excluded the DNA did that in great detail and everybody knew it before trial but the state disregarded
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those results arguing that DNA was so new the tests were inconclusive prosecutors did concede
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there was not enough evidence against Barry Jackson and Gary Daniels and dropped the charges against those two
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men and they wipe their names out and then they refile showing that Daniels and Jackson have been dismissed far more
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confident in the case against the remaining three suspects the state set its sights on convicting Pinkins Glenn
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and Duran how do you take somebody's life away and act like it was nothing [Music]
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it was January 28th 1991 and the first to go on trial was Bill Duran the most damning evidence against him his ties to
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Pinkins and Glenn on the night of the crime the result was a hungery we never retried him and why wasn't he retried
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the weakest case at a three the next to go to trial Was Daryl Pinkins Pinkins was convicted on three
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counts rape criminal deviate conduct and robbery my knees kind of like buckled a
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little I moved a little swer a little and I couldn't believe it I was like this don't make
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sense Roosevelt Glenn was tried twice the first trial ended in a hung jury a second jury convicted Glenn of
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rape I was in such shock that I couldn't even think and then I heard my mother and sister
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scream it was a bad day for everybody hope dwindled in this case for about a decade then Along Came
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Professor Watson's wrongful conviction clinic and her law students it doesn't make any sense did you walk been
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thinking well they convicted him they must have had something that's what we've been taught having gone through
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all the evidence there's nothing to me that outside of the coveralls that really indicates that they're guilty but
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the real problem for the defense has always been the victim's ID of darl Pinkins that ID is deeply flawed I would
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say that ID should have been problematic from day one problematic they say because it contradicts the victim's
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initial statement given to the police I thought she said they were young punk sounding she said young black males in
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their 20s Punk talk right not one of the five men arrested fit the description of
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a young punk especially Daryl Pinkins who was 37 years old and married with young children at the time but even more
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disturbing to the young investigators the crime spree continued even after the men were arrested Ed in the next 7
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months there were 18 bumping robs and one bumping rape so then how could it be you guys if
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it was still happening well the word they used was copycat crimes ultimately it was the way the
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prosecution handled the DNA evidence that deeply troubled Professor Watson and caused her to reach out to DNA
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expert Greg hpan he believes the pro prosecution intentionally downplayed the results of the DNA test by using a
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significantly less reliable test called corology basically the state argued that
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the men could not be excluded from the seen because their blood types could be found in the stains everybody in the
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room would have been in that stain because everybody in the room's a b or O blood to even use blood typing when you
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have DNA uh is is so ethical as to you know make my blood boil and this is where it
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gets even more complicated after arguing that the men probably did contribute to
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the seamen stains the prosecution then contradicted Itself by saying that Pinkins and Glenn may not have
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ejaculated at all this according to several jailhouse informants who allegedly reached out to detective
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Solen Pinkins he confided in his cellmate and he asked the cellmate these questions is it rape if you didn't
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ejaculate he also tells him I'm not worried about the DNA evidence because I didn't
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ejaculate that informant got a plea deal in return for his testimony and so did a
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snitch who testified that roselt Glenn told him he had only kissed the victim but remember the victim told police she
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had been raped by each of the five men and that all five men ejaculated you're raped you're being
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hurt if you think you're going to be accurate on did everyone ejaculate well you're fooling yourself you're wrong how
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do you as an investigator decide which parts of her eyewitness testimony to use and which parts to
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Discount I take it all I don't discount unless the evidence discounts it there was part of me that just could not
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believe that they were pursuing this case and more Karen Freeman Wilson was a prosecutor turned public defender when
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she was assigned to represent Roosevelt Glenn in his second trial I talk about this case is a case that has haunted me
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throughout my career because I knew he wasn't guilty today Freeman Wilson is the mayor of Gary Indiana I really
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didn't know detective Solon but I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt but as the case continued on I
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just thought that he orchestrated a [Music] railroad in the 24 years that you've
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been in prison you've lost your dad both brothers right and you lost a sister my
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oldest sister Yeah by 2005 Daryl Pinkins had exhausted his appeals even though new and improved DNA tests continue to
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exclude him and Roosevelt Glenn from The seamen stains the only hope left was Roosevelt Glenn's appeal filed in 2003
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by Fran Watson who had officially begun working as the pro bono attorney for both Pinkins and Glenn did it ever cross
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your mind to maybe cut a deal no have you ever once given a confession no I would never confess that I'm I didn't
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do knowing that the science of DNA had worked against the men so far Watson turned to a different
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science one that actually had caught up with the case hair analysis the FBI came out in the last
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couple years and said we're sorry we've convicted people with bad hair comparison test testimony we now know
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that you can't put two hairs under a microscope and figure out if they came from the same person to a reliable
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degree of scientific certainty but that's not all remember the hair used against Roosevelt Glenn did not have a
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root and it could not be tested for DNA at the time but by 2003 it could be tested for mitochondrial DNA the genes
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you get from your mother that test would show whether or not the hair actually came from Roosevelt Glenn in a Twist of
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Faith though when Fran Watson got the court order to test that hair she was given a second hair as well and that
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second hair it did have a root they never tested that hair it had a root always so we test that hair Professor
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wson tested both hairs as it turns out neither belonged to Roosevelt Glenn Daryl Pinkins or Bill deran but more
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importantly says DNA expert Greg hin the hair with the root provided a new previously unknown third DNA profile we
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thought that was enough because hair evidence just like that has overturned cases all over the country where the FBI
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is you know apologizing for the way they've taught people to interpret hair and DNA everyone recognizes corrects
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those mistakes in 2008 a judge ruled that the new hair evidence was not enough to Grant Roosevelt Glenn a new
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trial citing the testimony of the snitch and the witness ID of darl penins as proof of Roosevelt's
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guilt but a year and a half later after serving nearly 17 years as a model prisoner Roosevelt Glenn was released
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from prison anyway paroled under Indiana law for good behavior they also forced you to
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register as a sex offender right you see me FL yeah that's that's it hurts it also hurts his daughters who
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lost their father for nearly 17 years I mean I wish he could have been there to help me pick out a prime dress
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or say no not to that boyfriend even now you know I struggle you know trying to build a relationship dad supposed to be
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the one that teaches you you know this is what you deserve this is how you should be treated and I've never I
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haven't had a chance experienced that my children now are 31 30 and 25 and we don't even know each other and
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we're we're very respectful and we love each other but deep down theide we don't
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we don't really know each other every man needs a father in their life Damon Pinkins was just 15 years old
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when he lost his father I told him he's the strongest man that I know and I told
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him before that I needed him just as much as he need me because he was actually helping
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me I'm sorry the love I wanted to express to my children has not been able to come forth yet
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yeah yes Daryl you are not forgotten that's right 84-year-old Mildred Pinkins has spent a quarter Century getting
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desperate letters from prison hey moms wrote Daryl it's another lonely night she'd leave messages sometimes and
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they were haunting and would just say just checking to see if you're working on Daryl's case and a lot of times there
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was nothing I could do on Daryl's case but I look I'd look at it and I'd think about it and I'd go to meetings and I'd
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ask people you know how they would approach this and eventually that's how we got the answer it was at one of those
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scientific meetings where Greg hampikian met met Dr Mark perlin maybe 1.5 plin had recently developed a new DNA
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technology he calls true alil it's a computer program specifically designed to analyze DNA mixtures this software
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allows pearlin to see profiles belonging to minor contributors to the DNA in a way that lab technicians just can't true
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alil for example was used in 911 because there were so many human remains mingled
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truel was being used by crime labs for prosecution well presumably for justice plin agreed to run the test in this case
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for free a process that began back in October 2013 the last 25 years has been very
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exhausting but we haven't give enough hope not we're not going to give hope nope
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[Music] in early August 2014 Fran Watson got a call from Mark plin the results of the
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trulle DNA tests were in and the News was big along with the original two DNA profiles tril was able to identify two
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additional DNA profiles and neither of them matched Daryl Pinkins or Roosevelt Glenn how confident are you that the
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true alal test results are accurate and show that these two men Roosevelt and Daryl were not there they did not rape
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this woman incredibly confident the match statistics here were very strong and they were
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exclusionary and remember the DNA profile from the hair with the root it didn't match any of the four four
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profiles in the seen either that meant there were now five known rapists here are five separate genotypes five bad
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guys none of them are dir and Pinkins and glass seven months later a hearing was set for Monday April 25th
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2016 but on the Thursday before the hearing Professor Watson was informed there would be no hearing after two
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decades of defending the convictions in this case the prosecutor's office conceeded and agreed to overturn Daryl
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Pink's conviction the very next day Daryl was set to be released an innocent man with no
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record are you serious girl's getting out tomorrow are you serious after working on this case
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for 3 years we called Daryl's family and Roosevelt Glenn with lifechanging news all
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we were also there the next day when Daryl still handcuffed finally heard the news he'd been waiting for for nearly 25
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years 50 ft across from this building is your mom some of your kids sisters mhm nephews right and they
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are so anxious to see you I feel like I'm about to explode but I'm so thankful we all waited that
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entire day for Daryl to be released all on the edge but it never happened we don't have good news
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apparently the paperwork had not been signed in time so a man now innocent in the eyes of the law would remain locked
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up for the weekend this is not what you do to people who have put up with 25 years of absolute Injustice and they
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have a court order in their hands to say free this man the process has to start back up at 8:00 a.m. here which is 9:00
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a.m. there Monday morning he'll be start business that Monday there were even more people there to see Daryl Pinkins
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released and thanks to jail administrator Mark pervic 48 Hours got an extraordinary look at Daryl's
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re-entry into his world mhm I'm good hey can I take your stuff because you're not going to have any
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arms to hold anything had you seen him dressed in civilian clothes before no never yeah never and he had a different
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stance yeah you already saw the different person got to see Daryl be a man again you know be a proud man and
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leave uh feeling exonerated knowing that the world would know he didn't do it here we go
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[Applause] your moment [Applause] Daryl oh my God for the first time in more than two
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decades Daryl Pinkins now 64 years old was actually able to hold his mother and his children
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but Daryl wasn't alone for him it was also about his partner in [Applause] innocence is this the first wrongfully
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convicted case the true Le has been responsible for overturning the conviction yes precedent setting clearly
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[Applause] and hopefully open up the eyes of other lawyers that in these mixture cases it's
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now time to go back and try again feels like this day was it was meant to be I feel like this
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is a new beginning you know it is shortly after these men were convicted Lake County prosecutor Bernard
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Carter took office and has vehemently fought every appeal in this case one month after Daryl's release Carter
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finally agreed to an interview has this office have you gone back and looked at the case all the way through to say did
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we miss something here yeah we have done that and not really only thing we feel that we got conclusive evidence once
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that last DNA um uh profile was we felt absolutely that something has to the way
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up all the way up until that it was an arguable arguable case yes it was with one pretty significant exception well
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when you look at that identification identification was in my opinion very flawed after personally taking the time
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to review the entire case File Carter who shook Daryl's hand the day he was released says he is now very bothered by
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the victim identification which kept Daryl behind bars for nearly a quarter Century if that hadn't happened that ID
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would Daryl Pinkins have spent 24 and half years I don't think he would have I don't think he would have absolutely not
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and if Daryl Pinkins who was tried before Glenn had not been convicted would Roosevelt Glenn had gone no it'll
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fail too probably Detective Mike Solen strongly disagrees and remains convinced that
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Daryl Pinkins is guilty the prosecutor said the words he didn't do it yeah right he didn't do it does that make him
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right does it make you right to say that he did no but we got people on the other
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side to say he's wrong not the mayor of Gary Indiana Karen Freeman Wilson who gave Roosevelt Glenn a job when he was
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paroled is it a fair question to ask you if you think race played a role in this
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case I certainly think it did in the investigation and the way that uh detective Solon viewed these men the
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fact that there were black men charged with raping a white woman ask them to produce any evidence that shows that I
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was racist on this I never used the word to them I never insulted them using that
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word have I ever used it in my life earlier in life I have I haven't used that word in 20 years you know how much
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you all mean to me you know and that and that we did this together we did this together that's the how that works thank
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God for FR she's an angel sent from above to me she's a lifesaver she is this case overall could have been
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prevented from day one and it's sad to say that those that are in charge in power need to get back to
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ethics good [Music] ethics in early 2017 Roosevelt Glenn's conviction was finally
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overturned and now I can shout I can scream I can dance if I want to and I want to
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thank all y'all Glen's name has now been expunged from the federal sex offenders registry
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congratulations on April 25th 2017 exactly one year after being freed from prison we checked in on Daryl who
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is living on his own and still trying to adjust to life in the 21st century being
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like eye opener and you know it's like coming into a new realm uh new world really and experiences from cell phone
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technology to dealing with people after months of hunting for a job it was mayor
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Karen Freeman Wilson who once again came to the rescue hiring darl as a maintenance worker for the city of Gary
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makes me feel like a man and you know it's nice to take got somebody to dinner and you pay not her I'm old school
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ironically Roosevelt and Daryl now work together again [Music]