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when crosy green was released from Death Row in 2009 it was a major victory but it didn't erase almost two decades of
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trauma death row had taken a toll on crosley's Mental Health when I say I was a mess I was a mess I got bad nerves
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behind it I got the shakes behind it because that wasn't no joke that wasn't no joke it affected his
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relationships with the family members he had left behind I missed him so much not
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being there to see him grow up you know and having them to see me in that position at times was painful to me it
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was painful still behind bars with a life sentence he spent a lot of time thinking about his situation
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and said his case was not unique what I mean that there have been cases where innocent people have been accused of
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crimes that they didn't [Music] commit all of the evidence points to the fact that there was no third person at
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the scene of the crime that's what of crosley's lawyers Jean Thomas to the contrary it suggests that these two
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teenagers were alone they were exboyfriend and girlfriend there was an accident it would be fair to conclude
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and she made up a story after the fact remember that Kim and Chip were exes and Chip had a new girlfriend Kim testified
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that she and Chip discussed Chip's relationship with that new girlfriend the night of the murder and that the
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relationship made her upset here's crosley's other lawyer Keith Harrison this is not just a simple case
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of mistaken identity that the wrong person got picked out of a lineup this is a case um it's it's uh unfortunately
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a classic case of what is often referred to as a racial hoax which is a black guy
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did it I'm 48 Hours correspondent Erin morard this is murder in the Orange Grove the troubled case against Crosley
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Green episode 6 the other [Music] men Crosley you were in court when Kim looked at you in that courtroom pointed
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her finger at you and said this is the man who robbed and kidnapped me what was your reaction she points to you what's
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what was my reaction was that uh why who told her to say something like that is and it a ain't true why
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would she get up there and say it the way she said and is not true our society is really
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guilty of this perception that just because a a white female says a black man has committed a crime we take that
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as gospel this is Bill Gary the president of the north Bard County Branch of the
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NAACP we introduced him to you in episode 4 I asked him about the possibility that Crossley could be a
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victim of a racial hoax I think you can go back and and look at any number of U situations where that was the
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circumstances and what happened to those persons there I mean I could go down the
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line of different cases a racial hoax is when a person is accused of a crime often falsely because
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of the person's race one of the best known examples the case of 14-year-old EMT till who in 1955 was lynched after
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being accused of wolf whistling at a white woman her claims in 1955 led to Till's kidnapping his murder and really
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became a pivotal moment in the modern civil rights movement and Susan Smith up in uh South Carolina who claimed that a
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black man had uh hijacked her car in a tragic ending to a 9-day ordeal authorities pull Susan Smith's car and
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the bodies of her two small children out of a nearby lake bed and now officials have confirmed that Susan has
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perpetrated a cruel and tragic hoax the situation in New York when the man was in the park bird watching there
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is an African-American man on in Central Park he is recording me threatening myself and my
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dog and my I'm sorry I can't hear you either I'm being threatened by a man in the ramble
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please send the cops immediately if you are poor and black or brown you are much
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more likely to be caught up in that justice system and not receive justice so could have Crosley ended up
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behind bars as a result of a racial hoax it it certainly appears that that Mr Green has
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been uh one falsely accused and two is that the criminal justice system has not been fair to him it certainly seems that
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there is uh an amount of meanness that uh has permitted that case from beginning to present day Bill's not
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just talking about racial hoaxes now but specific issues with the state attorney's office in Bard County
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remember bill has lived in Bard County for 50 years he's actively involved in community nonprofits and is not just
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familiar with crosley's case but many of the cases that have passed through the state attorney's office go back in the
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history of prosecutions and cases here in vo County and I think it becomes apparent that there's been questionable
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methods used to uh exact convictions in many cases questionable methods also played a big role in the wrongful
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convictions of three other Bard County men Juan Ramos Bill Dylan and Wilton dege in 1983 Juan Ramos was convicted of
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a rape and murder in Bard County Ramos was prosecuted by Christopher white the same assistant State Attorney who
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prosecuted Crosley green Ramos was also sentenced to death for the crimes based in part on testimony from a jailhouse
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informant who offered his testimony in exchange for a lighter sentence on a series of crimes he had been accused of
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there was also evidence from a dog handler who was later discredited as a fraud although this was not the same dog
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handler used in crosley's case Ramos's conviction was reversed in 1986 and he was acquitted in a retrial
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less than a year later bill Dylan had a similar story it was a nightmare it was horrifying and I don't use that word
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lightly it was horrifying in 1981 8 years before Crosley was arrested Dylan was a 20-year-old athlete whose biggest
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concern was trying to land a spot on the Detroit Tigers a professional baseball team but before he was able to go on his
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second Tri out he was accused of murdering a man in a wooded area near Kenova beach in Bard County the killer
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in that case was described by witnesses as around 510 with a mustache and how tall are you I'm 6'4 and I never ever
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had a mustache when I met Bill Dylan I couldn't help but feel there was a deep sadness in him almost like he couldn't
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believe or accept what had happened to him once a rising star in baseball maybe even a contender for the major leagues
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his murder conviction irreparably damaged him and completely changed the trajectory of his
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life I also couldn't help but noticed that a pattern seemed to be emerging here the same disc credited dog handler
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who testified in Ramos's trial also testified at Dylan's claiming that his dog was able to track Dylan scent across
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the highway to the crime scene even after a hurricane had come through the area and like in crosley's case
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prosecutors found Witnesses who said they saw Dylan wearing clothes that match those worn by the killer a bloody
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yellow t-shirt and again and like in crosley's case someone close to Dylan testified against him at trial for Dylan
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it was an ex-girlfriend Donna Parish eventually came to my trial and said that she saw me standing over the body
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putting on a pair of pants I guess because some reason the killer had supposed to be had long pants
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or something or whatever I'm not sure how devastating was that testimony uh it was it was really to me in my mind it
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was very very devastating when she dropped that bomb shell on me in that courtroom I was highly upset I'll tell
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you that right now first of all she was lying and second of all my lawyer didn't
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seem to see what was coming there and which really irritated me to a point and I what I really couldn't understand Aram
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was how were they able to just lie like that and just get away with it Donna Parish recanted her testimony less than
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a month after the trial she said that she had been pressured to lie in her own mind because she had been
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threatened with 25 years for murder accessor to murder but Dylan still served more than 27 years in
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prison before test showed that DNA found on that Bloody yellow shirt belonged to
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someone else he was released on November 18th 2008 I used to think while I was in
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prison sitting there what did I do or what what went wrong or who tried to cross me up in this and then I realized
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it was like a program to me it was like that some certain person had sort of turned a switch and just said okay
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convict him it doesn't matter we just need to get some people or him off the street no matter whether I was innocent
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or guilty and then there's the case of Wilton dege in 1982 20-year-old DED was convicted of committing a brutal rape in
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bravard County despite the fact that the victim described her attacker as 6 feet
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tall dege was only 5'5 that same discredited dog handler claimed that his dog detected de's scent
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in the victim's home and Christopher white prosecuted that case they got me and they started building a case around
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me they pull off the dog off the shelf well we really don't have any evidence let's bring in this guy he'll he'll make
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the evidence for us you know and it seems they've it they've become a habit of doing it and it it really needs to
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stop and again it was DNA evidence that finally proved de's innocence over two decades later he was released from
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prison in August of 2004 um it was a lot of anger I mean and then the stuff I had to deal with in
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there the people the atmosphere the guards the confinement uh uh I lost a lot of course hindsight is 2020 but it
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seemed peculiar to me that so many cases in a relatively small County would later
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be overturned for problematic evidence I feel that it's a terrible thing that an
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innocent person would be put behind bars in 2015 I asked former prosecutor Christopher white how he felt about
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helping to put Wilton Edge behind bars for years only to find out later that he was the wrong man and I don't like being
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a part of that if that occurred but we presented the evidence it laid out like it did and it went the way it did and
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all I could do is uh tell him that I was sorry that it worked out the way it does
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I pressed white further but what about the fact that Wilton's Edge didn't even fit the original description of the are
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we going to talk about will de because if we are going to leave I mean this is about I thought it was cros leering it
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is but but you do know that the Innocence Project of of Florida has accused bravard County and your office
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the office you worked in of creating a culture of corruption including they have probably accused most every office
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in the United States of something similar Wilton dge Bill Dylan and Juan Ramos were all wrongfully convicted and
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exonerated years later but all three men also have another thing in common they were not black this is Bill Gary
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again they were wrongly accused and prosecuted and thankfully they were able to get the kind of legal representation
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that they needed to prove their innocence but many black men have not been able to do that and and and that
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continues [Music] today in June of 2009 crosley's new lawyers from the DC firm croll and Morin
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retained a private investigator to go down to bravard county and do some digging on crosley's case the
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investigator tracked down two new Witness Witnesses who claimed to have seen Crosley the night of the murder and
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backed up his Alibi that he was at the house of his ex-girlfriend Lori Reigns his lawyers argued that Crosley was
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entitled to a new trial based on newly discovered evidence including those two new Alibi Witnesses okay is everybody
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ready to go yes your we're ready to proceed yes ma'am on May 27th 2011 Crosley and his lawyer arrived at a
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bravard County Courthouse for an evidentiary hearing now 53 years old Crosley appeared thin and frail in this
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hearing the judge would not be looking at the case in its entirety just the New Evidence raised by crosley's
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lawyers up first to testify 36-year-old Brandon wri good morning Mr Wright if you come right over here to be
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warn that's good Brandon was currently serving over 21 years on a drug conviction and wore shackles around his
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wrists and ankles as he gave his testimony on the stand but back in 1989 Brandon Wright was just a
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14-year-old boy living in Mims Keith Harrison questioned him about seeing Crosley at Lori Rain's house the night
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of the murder beginning approximately what time did you see Mr Green at Lor Reigns's
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house on on the evening of April 3rd 1989 uh I think it was uh about 11 11:15 Brandon corroborated what Lori
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Reigns had always said that Crosley could not have committed the murder of Chip Flynn because he was at her house
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at the time it took place what were you doing at Lor rang's house at around 11 11:15 on the evening of April 3rd well I
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was at Lor's house because that's where we sell drugs from um now were you selling drugs that
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evening yes sir I was he testified that he saw Crosley leave Lor's house a few times that night
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but only to walk back and forth to his cousin caren's house which was close by this was new and important information
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no witness at crosley's original trial had shared that he was walking back and forth between the two houses so yeah I
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seen him constantly throughout the night you know being there cuz it's a straight
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shot you can see Colleen back door from Lor's front door so you know can you describe for the court approximately how
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far the distance is from Lori rang's house to um Carling Brothers house just approximately I'll say about 50 60 yards
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so they're in very close proximity yes Harrison wanted to emphasize that even with Crosley walking back and forth
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between the two houses Brandon had eyes on Crosley for most of the night he was never out of my sight for that long to
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go to nooda park let alone kidnap somebody and kill him Brandon testified that the last time he saw Crosley was at
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300 a.m. and that just a few hours later he had seen police in the neighborhood with a sketch that they were saying
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match Papa green and we asking where to find him like ain't nobody back then would really just even talk to the
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police cuz that's just how it was you know what I mean the police wasn't there to help they was there to you know to
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hurt in his cross-examination Christopher white asked Brandon about his history with selling drugs how was
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it that you at the age of 14 could run a drug business what how did that work uh
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I mean to be in the streets and the sell drugs it's not hard like it sells itself and
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he pushed Brandon on why he didn't come forward back in 1989 with his information well that day
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when the police came the day after the murder the police came of course you were scared of the police so you didn't
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help them find Crosley you didn't tell them anything about knowing anything about Crosley right no they never asked
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right and you and you saw them there and you knew what they were doing but you weren't about to go volunteer any
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information uh they never asked me Brandon said the police never asked him about Crosley
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green so he never told them what he had witnessed the second new Alibi witness to testify was 39-year-old Reginal
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Peters like Brandon Reginal had been convicted of multiple felonies in his lifetime he was currently in the custody
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of The Bard County Jail Lori Reigns was his aunt and he had been living with her in the spring of
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1989 Keith Harrison's colleague Robert Road questioned Reginal about the night of chipain's
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murder when did you first see Mr Green uh that evening approximately what time did you
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say probably 11: 11: at night 11: 10 11 10 or 11:00 p.m. Reginal test ified that
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he was also walking between Lori Reigns and carlen brothers houses the night of Chip flin's murder and that he saw
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Crosley at both locations between 10 or 11: at night and 4:30 a.m. the next morning was Mr Green there um that
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entire time period when I say there I'm referring to either Miss Reigns's home miss brother home are in the field in
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between yes sir like Brandon Reginald didn't share what he had witness with police back in
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1989 because he said he was never questioned the state also called a witness James scrag a former police
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chief who was currently employed with the state attorney's office James testified that he and Christopher White
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had met up just a few weeks earlier to establish timings between key locations from the night of the murder we we spent
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the morning in the MS Titusville area we drove aox only eight routes and I kept times for those routes James said that
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he and Christopher white drove several routes including the distance from the ball field at holder Park to crosley's
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Sister Tina's house how long did it take for us to drive that approximately 1 minute they also drove from Tina's house
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to the intersection near the Orange Grove where chip fim was shot white ass scrag about how long the drive took the
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elapse time was 5 minutes and 27 seconds white was highlighting that these key locations holder Park Tina's house the
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Orange Grove and Lor Reigns home were only a few minutes Drive apart but in his cross-examination Keith Harrison pointed
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out a key detail you don't know whether Mr Green even owns a vehicle do you no sir now um in your work um with Mr White
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did you ever walk any of these distances no sir why wouldn't they walk any of the
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routes even if the as salent had arrived at holder Park in a car Kim said that they the as salent Kim and Chip had all
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driven to the Orange Grove together in Chip's pickup truck which Kim then drove off to escape at the very least the as
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salant would have had no choice but to walk out of the Orange Grove and but you don't know how long it would have taken
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him to walk any of the distances in any of the exhibits that um that you've prepared for us today no sir I would
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have no idea about a month after the final session after reviewing all the evidence
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as well as an affidavit submitted by crosley's lawyers from a third new alii witness Randy Brown who also said he saw
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Crosley the night of the murder the judge made his ruling Crosley green would not be granted a new
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trial here's some of what Christopher white later told me about why the judge reached that decision what he said was
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that the testimonies of Wright Peters and brown do not establish the defendant was somewhere else when Flynn was
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murdered the defendant could have committed the offenses in the above styled case and still been seen by
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Wright Peters and brown at Lori Brown's house he meant Lori Reigns given the proximity of the crime scene to the Mims
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housing project the testimonies of Wright Peters and brown arguably even further support the state's case because
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they place the defendant near the crime scene around the time the crimes were committed just a few weeks after that
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ruling Christopher white retired he was quoted in a press release from the state
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attorney's office as saying I enjoy a challenge and this work has certainly been that but more than that I've had
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the privilege of Seeking Justice for people who were wronged Keith Harrison had always
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planned to take his case to the federal level if unsuccessful in state courts in
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Florida so in November 2011 Harrison went to federal court and filed what is called a petition for habius Corpus
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seeking to get crosley's conviction overturned if you haven't realized it by now
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appealing a conviction is a tedious frustrating timeconsuming process the federal court dismissed
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crosley's Federal petition as premature because at the time he was still in the midst of State Court proceedings so
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crosley's attorneys had to wait another 3 years until the state filings and motions were complete before refiling
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the habius petition in 2014 here's attorney Jean Thomas about why she felt so strongly about crosley's
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case the first sentence of our petition is this is a case about innocence and what we really want the court to do is
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to you know have the judge roll up his sleeves and read into this case and take a hard look at the evidence and and you
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know make a decision that there that there were dramatic constitutional violations here and uh order new trial
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for Crosley as a former prosecutor it's incredibly difficult to write a brief um that suggests
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prosecutorial misconduct it's the last thing that really I or any of us wanted to
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do the problem with this case is that whether you view it in isolation just the facts of this case or put in the
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broader context of the r most Dent Dylan cases it's hard to ignore the pattern the prosecution and the police seem to
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do the wrong thing again and again and again at the heart of the habius petition those notes taken by
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Christopher white at his meeting with officers Mark rxy and Diane Clark notes that he never turned over to crosley's
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original defense those notes came up in our last episode in an appeal at the state level that appeal was denied but
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now there was hope that the federal appeal would have a different outcome what was your reaction when you first
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read those notes I I was shocked my jaw dropped um I really couldn't believe it I knew
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immediately that this was a GameChanger I mean there are a lot of things wrong with this case
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but this the the notes really stood out to us right from the start as um something that it would be hard for a
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court to ignore the state has an obligation a constitutional obligation to turn over any materials that might be
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considered exculpatory that might help Crosley in his defense those notes certainly are considered exculpatory
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material and the prosecutor failed to turn them over again crosley's attorneys are referring to that requirement
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established by the US Supreme Court that prosecutors hand over quote exculpatory
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material to the defense evidence that showed Crosley was not guilty of the crime it's probably the most important
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document in the entire case um because it's a document that points the finger at someone other than Crowley as being
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the person who committed this heinous crime instead it was buried it was withheld and it was only uh came to
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light 20 years later crosley's attorneys argue that by withholding crucial evidence those notes Christopher White
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had committed a Brady violation but while their habous petition might sound promising crosley's lawyers were quick
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to tell me that it was no golden ticket out of prison it's a huge uphill climb and we've told Cy this and he he
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recognizes it um but the overwhelming majority of habus petitions are denied many of them are denied you know
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just out of hand but the odds are stacked against anyone who is trying to overturn their conviction so why is that
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because appeals court judges don't go back and look at the entire case they only look at whether the trial judge or
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the prosecutors did something that denied Crosley a fair trial it's it's a very high bar to meet and there are many
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hurdles to clear along the way there's this old say it's easy to get in and it's hard to get
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out you understand and that's what I'm going through it was easy to get in but look how hard it is for me to get
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[Music] out I met with Crosley for a second time back in 2015 this time at Hardy correction
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institution he had been a model inmate at Hardy since being transferred there over 5 years earlier and had picked up a
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job in maintenance we had written to each other over the years but it had now been over 15 years since our last face
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to-face meeting on death row it was also now 25 years since his murder conviction
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Crosley was 57 years old with graay hair and a closely cropped beard did you think we'd forget you no I knew
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you didn't forget me all right come on have a seat over here we were preparing a second broadcast on Crosley story as a
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reporter I try not to get too close to anyone I want to be able to view the information with a clear and impartial
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lens but I admit that this was the interview I was most looking forward to I was finally back in Florida to see
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Crosley I showed him some old pictures of his family they don't look that way now they full of great I bet I bet well
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we've all gotten older Crosley I hate to say there was a notable difference in Crosley this time around a
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lightness well it's interesting you know when I saw you 15 years ago you said to
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me you were really angry yes how do you feel now how it feel now I'm joyful I'm hopeful I'm happy
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I'm not sad or nothing like that how do you explain that my family my sisters my brother a few people's WR me
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Christian peop or what not could you hear what he said clearly crosley's lawyers and family were no longer the
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only ones in contact with him Crosley was hearing from a lot of people including other Christians
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he attributed the change I saw in him to his faith that's what carried me through
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a lot of this by by me accepting God at an early time real hard and I just changed at that time you know and that
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change been ever since then until now on May 30th 2015 the second 48 Hours broadcast on
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the Crosley green case aired telling a new generation of viewers about his story I'm Aon morard tonight on 48
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hours last chance for Freedom the broadcast also featured crosley's latest hope for his case that
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habus petition filed in federal court the federal court could uphold Crosley Green's conviction overturn it or or
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declined to review it it's his last chance for freedom and all Crosley green can do now is
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wait that broadcast made more people aware and invested in crosley's case I began receiving mail and more
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importantly so did Crosley and finally on January 22nd 2016 more than a year and a half after
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the habius Corpus petition was filed US District Judge Roy Dalton Jr made his ruling he denied the
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appeal on a technicality he said the petition was filed too late that it should have been submitted
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back in 2011 which if you remember was when Keith Harrison originally filed the petition but was told then it was was
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premature too early and then too late crosley's case was stuck in an aggravating legal Quagmire of red tape
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and technicalities crosley's lawyers fought the judge's decision for almost a year
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finally arguing in front of a federal court of appeals that the petition was properly filed after so many
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disappointments I feared this hearing would not go any differently for Crosley so you can imagine my shock when I read
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that the appeals court this time reversed the lower Court's ruling opening the door for crosley's appeal to
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finally move forward in 2018 Crosley was finally able to file a case in federal court a victory in
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itself although the odds that a judge would overturn crosley's conviction were still slim well it's extremely
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rare there are thousands of petitions filed by people seeking to overturn their convictions every year and it's
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only a very small percentage um that ever get granted but Against All Odds crosley's
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petition was one of them denial after denial one loss after another Crosley Green's murder conviction was finally
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overturned we had a federal judge ruled that crley green had been wrongfully and
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unconstitutionally convicted over 30 years ago it was a miracle that finally there was a court that actually looked
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not at the procedural hurdles but actually looked at the merits of crosley's case and what went wrong in
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the trial court and said yes his constitutional rights were violated you're right this evidence was critical
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to the defense it should not have been withheld from the defense team it should not have been withheld from the jury and
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that um in light of all of that uh he's entitled to a new trial crosley's lawyers called him in
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prison to tell him the news I was choked up it was through a phone call and I was
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choked up I couldn't believe it really and I I was at lost of words finally won uh a point of of
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getting a trial that's what you've always really wanted isn't it that's all I really
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wanted a new trial yes Ma'am why I just want to I want you just want the truth to come
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out okay I just want the truth to come out I had seen many versions of Crosley over the years on death row he had been
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an angry man during his decades in prison he had aged and become a man of faith and now at 60 years old I am the
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real CR de green the one that very humble and love peoples love being around peoples you
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know a person that can get along with anyone the state had 90 days days to either appeal this decision or retry
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Crosley if it didn't either Crosley could finally be released from prison Justice and freedom it seemed were right
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around the corner every day since I've had that that ruling from the judge I've been thinking about going
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home being my family I'm just hoping and praying that day comes soon [Music] in the next episode of Murder in the
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Orange Grove the troubled case against Crosley green I called his brother OK Conor who couldn't even speak he was
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crying and we let the family know they hit the road they had to drive all the way across the state about 5 hours and
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then Jean and I decided Well you know there's one chance one flight that might get us there in time so we rush to make
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that flight and it was really surreal murder in the Orange Grove was reported by me Aon morard alongside
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producers Alan Pang Annie Cronenberg and Allison Bailey Kiara orbits is our coordinating producer and Florence
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burrow Adams is our story editor additional production support from Dylan Gordon Marlon polycarp Caroline k Casey
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and Christine Driscoll Judy Tigard is the executive producer of 48 Hours Gail Zimmerman AA basak Mark gobom Charlotte
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Fuller Judy Ryback and stepen McCain produced the original 48 Hours episodes associate producers were Michael Loftus
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and Shaheen Toki Patty aronowski was the senior producer special thanks to Megan Marcus
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Jamie Benson Nick poser and Gail spru [Music]