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[Music] what I've been telling you for the last 20 something years that I was [Music]
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inoc we don't know what happened that night all we know is that chip Flynn picked up his ex-girlfriend they had sex
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they smoked marijuana then chip Flynn got shot in the early morning hours of April
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4th 1989 the police received a 911 call from Kim HCK I was dispatched almost immediately they did eventually find
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chiplin lying in an abandoned Orange Grove he's been shot I get a call shortly after 2:00 that he has died
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there was a statement taken from Kim HCK the black guy stepped out with a gun and
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I heard about five or six gun shots you don't see anybody else around shots were fired you don't see any shell
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casing and just makes you wonder I don't know the black guy told me how was a [ __ ] I don't believe words she
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says it's unfortunately a classic case of what is often referred to as a racial hoax which is a black guy did it
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so you get then called in by the prosecutor I told him I thought she did it I said to him you know I think you
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need to take a a close look at Kim HCK were you at all surprised when Crosley green was charged with chip
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Flynn's murder it was a total shock this this was like picking a name out of a [Music]
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hat we finally had a federal judge ruled that crawly green had been wrongfully and
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unconstitutionally convicted we did it Cy's going to be released brother and we thank you Father for
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opening up doors that man have shot for us it was so joyous love love you too all
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right it's going to be okay Y is y'all going to send him back to prison for a crime he didn't commit yall going to
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take him away from his family again what was your reaction when the court of appeals ruled against Crosley
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reinstated his conviction it was it was pretty devastating really I got to turn myself in tomorrow
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I don't think I'm going but that's that's me cuz it's always a miracle God always sends out a miracle to someone
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you never know when how where [Music] [Music] 48 Hours has been covering the questionable conviction of Crosley green
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for 24 years crosley's attorneys say that race was a factor from the beginning the evidence that Crosley
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green is innocent is literally overwhelming crosley's ordeal began in April of 1989 Charles Flynn better known as chip
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was found shot in a Florida Citrus Grove he had been with his ex-girlfriend Kim HCK that night she told investigators
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that they had been robbed and hijacked by a black man in holder Park as they sat in Chip's truck a little after 11:00
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p.m. told Chip there's a black guy on your side and you Ed up window quick 20 minutes later Kim says chip stepped out
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of the truck and she heard him say hold on man did you see that uh the black male was armed at that time yes I did
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Chip had a gun in his glove boot I took the gun out of the glove box and stuck it under some jeans that were next to
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me she says the man tied Chip's hands with a shoelace ordered her to hand over money from Chip's wallet and then with
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everyone in this truck she says the as salent drove them to the Orange Grove steering shifting gears and somehow
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holding a gun on them all at the same time Kim H told police that when they got to the Grove the man yanked her out
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of the truck and then chip his hands still tied behind his back somehow managed to get a hold of his gun that
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Kim had hidden on the truck seat he leaned out of the truck and somehow shot at the guy and the guy stepped back
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chipped up out of the truck I jumped in in the truck and I heard about five or six
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gunshots she said she then drove to a friend's home for help Sheriff Deputy Mark rxy and
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Sergeant Diane Clark were the first two officers on the scene Kim H says that this as salent took both chip and K to
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the Citrus Grove at 1210 and yet you're not dispatched till 113 it's over an hour
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there is approximately an hour that is missing and unexplained how crucial was that time that night matter of life and
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death why is she not stopping someplace and making that phone call where could she have called right here from pay
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phone I think there was three along the way convenience store convenience store and the hospital's right there the
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directions Kim gave were so vague that even after Clark and rexie were dispatched it took another 30 minutes to
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find chip get the call at 113 I respond to this area there's nothing there had to notify my dispatch
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get better directions I drive to this new area here where they informed me to go again
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there's nothing there why then were you first sent to the wrong location that's a good question because she didn't tell
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us where to go she gave the wrong direction Sergeant Clark Park ended up sending another deputy to pick him up so
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she could better guide them she wouldn't get the car we say can you show us where
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yeah nope not going down there what did that say to you what did you think there's something wrong something is not
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ringing true I would want to know is he okay they found chip laying on his stomach with his hands tied behind his
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back bleeding from a single gunshot wound to his chest he was in pain but I seriously thought he'd be okay
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first words out of his mouth were get me out of here I want to go home did he mention anything about an as salent nope
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no did he mention anything about being robbed no no did he mention anything about being kidnapped no I'm thinking
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what's going on here my feeling about it at the time and still is that he was protecting her
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chip Flynn stopped breathing twice as they waited for an ambulance Sergeant Clark tried to save his life he didn't
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have to die there wasn't anything he didn't like to do Chip's parents Charles and Peggy fln now both deceased rushed
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to the Orange Grove when they got the word chip had been hurt but police wouldn't let them near the
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scene I should have been able to go back to see the Flynn who spoke with us in 1999 were
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shocked to learn that chip had been with Kim H that night chip had a new girlfriend that's all he talked about he
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didn't mention Kim anymore or anything Chip's parents said Kim had become too possessive and overbearing chip liked
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his freedom she wanted him to be with her all the time Kim was upset about the breakup according to Chip's friend David
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stro who also spoke with us in 1999 I do remember they just that she didn't want to let go and it was David's home
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where Kim H went for help I wondered why she came to my place as opposed to just
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stopping at the first potential telephone you know even a a a home with a light on or anything if it you know so
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it's always bothered me Kim HCK was not and has never been a suspect homicide detectives from Bard
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County Sheriff's Office seemed to take her at her word despite her delay in calling for help and her inability to
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describe the as salent very well I really didn't get a real good look at him I was really
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scared investigators claimed that almost immediately they got a tip that a smalltime drug dealer Crosley green was
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involved he had recently been released from jail the description that she had given for the sketch didn't match him
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they showed Kim this photo lineup and Kim ch chose number two Crosley green his picture is smaller and darker
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than any of the other pictures and it's right in you know what is often referred
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to as the bullseye point of a photo array crosy green admits he was no angel but he had no history of violent crime I
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think he was just an easy pick we're going to put some in jail for this green was a arrested and charg with
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kidnapping robbery and murder despite no direct evidence linking him to chip shooting there were no Fingerprints of
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Crosley green or any third person on the uh the truck not one single fingerprint
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[Applause] [Music] [Music] there was no case against Crosley green there was no case it was a one witness
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ID case in August of 1990 Crosley green went on trial for the murder of Chip Flynn the case hinged on the testimony
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of Kim HCK the state star witness who identified green as the black man who attacked the couple defense attorney
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Keith Harrison that's the weakest kind of case where the only evidence you have is somebody said that guy did
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it the state claimed there were also shoe prints found at holder Park prosecutor Christopher White NOW retired
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said a dog followed the scent of those prints to the vicinity of a house where one of Green's sisters lived white spoke
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with us in 2015 the shoe Impressions were followed from the site where the truck was parked
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supporting what Kim said about there being a third person there a black male who abducted them and did these things
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those shoe prints however were never linked to Crosley green but the prosecution also had three Witnesses all
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with criminal problems of their own who claimed Crosley confessed one was crosley's own sister
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Sheila the defense argued that cley couldn't have killed Flynn because he had an
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alibi Crosley says he was seen at the time of the Murder by multiple Witnesses at a party 2 miles away but his former
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attorney only called one to testify and on September 5th 1990 an all-white jury convicted Crosley green of kidnapping
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robbery and murder he was sentenced to die in Florida's electric chair hi Crosley I'm Aaron morard with
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CBS I first met Crosley Green in 1999 what's it like being here on death row it's hell it's hell to me because
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I'm here for a crime I didn't commit a team of lawyers from crowl and moin led by Keith Harrison and Jean
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Thomas took crosley's case pro bono they say jurs never heard the real story when
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you look at all of the facts you see that the state wanted to achieve a certain result and they manufactured
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evidence they coerced witnesses to lie even before the trial Kim H's account had serious
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inconsistencies she told police that the as salant had managed to steer Chip's truck shift gears all while holding a
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gun on them and yet she told Chip's parents a very different story she was having to shift the gears for him he
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would just smash clutch and she would shift gears he was making her do that Kim changed other parts of her story as
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well according to this police report from the night of the shooting she told a deputy that the as salent told her to
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tide Chip's hands but just hours later in her taped interview the black man was tying chips hands those inconsistencies
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with that have concerned you we're talking about who tied him yes and who shifted the truck of course it would if
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she was inconsistent any inconsistencies and yet another serious inconsistency Kim's description of the
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as salent gun matched a semi-automatic she said that when she drove away leaving chip at that Grove
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she heard five to six gunshots but no shell casings were recovered at the scene and the only bullet found was the
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one that killed chip your own experts said that in fact the bullet found in chip Flynn could have come from his own
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gun did you find another weapon well no but did you ever find another shell casing to match that weapon no and we
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wouldn't if in fact he was shooting a revolver you understand that did you find any other bullet holes bullet holes
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um not that I'm aware of and just about then chip his hands were behind his back he
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leaned out of the truck and somehow shot at the guy but that statement was contradicted by the evidence in
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investigators found no gunshot residue on Chip's hands the fact that his were tested and did not show any gunshot
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residue contradicts her story and I totally don't believe someone could actually jump out of that truck and
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shoot a gun behind their back with their hands tied anyway when you look at this
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case it is all circumstantial I would love to have had a stronger case but it is what it
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is as for those shoe prints at the park criminalist Lisa Deo who helped crosley's defense team told us that the
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diagram shown at trial contradicts the actual crime scene video sh print after proceeding West will then continue on
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around just to the outside of this fence if these were the tracks of the as salant they should end where the truck
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was parked around here but in fact de Mayo says they continue P the truck along the fence as you just heard and
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appear to leave the park how could they belong to the as salent if in fact he got in the truck back
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here they couldn't no no they couldn't the trail of Prince leaving holder Park is missing from the diagram this diagram
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supports Kim H's story but this diagram doesn't match the evidence at the scene correct this was necessary to make her
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story fit what's more every one of the three Witnesses who testified that Crosley green confessed recanted after
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trial there's a pattern that supports the fact that these folks were coerced when a sister testifies against her own
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brother and says he confessed it's hard to believe that could be coerced absolutely um she
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recanted almost immediately how you we Tracked Down Sheila Green in 1999 what did they say would happen if
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you didn't testify against your brother I would never see my kids again she told
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us she had no choice but to lie on the stand did Crosley ever tell you that he killed chip I never even talked to
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Crosley he never told me that basically they told me that this was my last chance to help myself because I was
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already convicted but this is your own brother Sheila he will understand you think he will yes he
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will he know I [Music] did what do you make of Kim H's account Chip's parents recorded Kim's account of
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the night chip was shot here what she said happened on Facebook at 48 hours [Music]
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Florida had a long history of being engaged in uh slavery in the plantation economy that has passed itself on to the
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criminal justice system here in this state Kenneth nun now retired law professor from the University of Florida
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says the odds were stacked against Crosley Green in that Florida courtroom I would say that Crosley Green's case is
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a miscarriage of Justice if you read the trial transcript the prosecutor was using
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race to fill the gaps in the evidence during trial the defendant's race was referred to 140
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times and I told Chip there's a black guy on your side she accuses a black person of committing this
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crime who are they going to believe and what what has defined this case from the very beginning is that Kim
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HCK was treated as a victim never as a possible shooter everybody on the scene is a suspect until they're not every
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single person is tested for gunshot residue that's not what happened here to this day First Responders Diane Clark
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and mark rxy question why Bard County detectives failed to do even a basic investigation of halik Kim H was taken
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in and questioned at 4:30 but not recorded until 8:20 and what does that say to you well she had time to get a
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story the way she wanted it she was not a suspect did it ever occur to you or anyone else that maybe Kim HCK wasn't
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telling the truth well of course it did I mean former prosecutor Christopher white then why wasn't she ever
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investigated why was she never a suspect what do you mean no GSR taken of her hands why not I don't know if there was
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or wasn't at this point why weren't pictures taken up her hands her arms to see if she had any injuries I guess they
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could have done more examination I'll give you that okay Crosset green lawyer Keith Harrison finds it
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mindboggling chip Flynn had broken up with Kim hallik he was seeing another woman Kim H was very upset about that
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that's the oldest motive in the book jealousy jealousy still white took Kim hoc at her word you've got to understand
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it's kind of a small community here in Titusville Kim HCK uh lived at the in the area where I lived I don't see how
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there's anything here concrete to tell anybody that Kim HCK lied but there were those obvious red flags with her
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story there was no moon on the night chip flim was sh it was completely dark in that Orange Grove based on her
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testimony she said she didn't get a really good look at him yet Kim H chose green out of this photo lineup a flawed
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lineup Professor nun says that is no longer allowed under Florida's current laws you can't tell the witness that the
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the suspect is in the batch and that happened in this case you have to make sure that the photograph matches all the
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other photographs his head is smaller than the other on so he stands out would you do this
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today well no no ideally I would not could she have picked the wrong person I don't think she did you know uh
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was she guessing more than she was sure I couldn't tell you for sure that still leaves you with the issue whether or not
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it's Crosley and you have arguments pro and con about that but the one thing I'm
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sure of based on the evidence in this case it wasn't Kim H she was the only other one there who else would have done
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it the only way all the facts are reconciled is if she shot him I told everybody I ran into who had
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any interest in it I thought she did it I told the homicide Sergeant I told the homicide
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investigator and four months after the shooting both brixie and Clark met with prosecutor Christopher white they wanted
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to make sure he knew of their suspicions of Kim HCK and how did Chris quite take
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that information he was dismissed dismissive I said to him she is involved and I don't believe it's a person you
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arrested I never heard anything else about it afterwards I think that they got into an
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argument she pulled the gun out of the glove box and either intentionally or unintentionally shot him they freak out
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I I don't want to get in trouble we got to come up with a story let's make up this story why didn't you take their
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words seriously I reviewed all the evidence that we had with that hypothesis in mind do they give me cause
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to believe that Kim HCK may have committed this murder my answer is no Kim hallik has not responded to our
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repeated requests for an interview but she did tell the Washington Post I'm tired of being beat down by the media
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and she said I've been told I'm the one that did it and I did not kill anybody you're that sure that Crosley green is
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innocent I would bet my life on it yes but in 201 11 years after chip fn's murder the state claimed
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it had more evidence against Green two tiny body hairs allegedly found in Flynn's truck they tested them
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for DNA matter of fact I wanted them to test it I knew I haven't been in that truck i' never been in that
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truck there was sufficient DNA there to obtain a result using MTA DNA that DNA mitochondrial cannot be used to identify
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a specific person it can only identify broad family relations and crosy green could not be excluded from that group
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it's not a match the mitochondrial DNA test cannot definitively say this DNA is this individual's DNA crosley's maternal
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uh relatives for example would be in this group that is not excluded in fact cross ley's brother o'
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Conor believes the hairs could be his he happened to be a friend of the original
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owner of the truck it's possible cuz I drove the truck kind of regular I I'm not saying I drove the truck one or two
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times I don't drove the truck several times are you at all troubled by the fact that croset green could not be
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eliminated that's nothing that's not evidence that is not evidence it does not tie him specifically to that
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truck you have that one hair that could have come from someone else his brother uhhuh is there any other physical
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evidence any other physical evidence anything that connects Crosley green to this case well I I guess the simple
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answer to that is no in 2009 after 19 years facing execution Crosley green attorneys won a
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major victory because of an error in sentencing green was taken off death row I felt real good at that time but I
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know I have another 100 yards to go but Crosley Green's request for a new trial was denied even though some of the
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evidence was now in question and all those Witnesses who testified against him said they lied on the stand have you
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ever had a case where three Witnesses have recanted and lied have you ever had a case three you know I never have that
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doesn't trouble you not coming from those people with those ties to the Green family and the Green family being
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what it is no it doesn't trouble me a great deal but in an odd twist of fate Christopher white provided just what
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crosy Green's defense team had been waiting for I was shocked I knew immediately that this was a GameChanger
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[Music] I'm ready to go home hopefully I get that chance to go home I've been without my family for
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quite some time now Crosley green was just 19 when his parents died and he assumed the role of Papa to his large
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family which is why crosley's murder conviction was so deeply felt by his oldest child schuma his brother o' Conor
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and sister Shirley and DEA I worri about him a lot and it's breaking the family it's
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breaking the family down watch it yall go over that way son schuma was 16 and his brother Gaston was six when Crosley
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was sentenced to death it damaged us I got rebellious I just went have getting in trouble no sense of direction cuz my
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dad was gone my NE was with my sons when they grew up you know and I got grandkids now
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I don't know how much time I got left on Earth myself but the little time I I will have
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left if I'm out there it would be with them but Crosley green will never be able to make up lost time with two of
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his sisters they died while he's been in prison Brenda and Tina that's been tough
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that's been tough they have been with me all way up until the time to die you miss
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him as for Sheila the sister who helped put him on death row he forgave her years ago does she feel a lot of guilt
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of course she do but that's my sister and I want her to know that I love her and no matter what I'm not angry at
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her okay with the witness recantations the only person who still connects Crosley
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to the crime is Kim HCK as you sit here today do you believe Crosley green is the man who shot yes I do yes I do but
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as it turns out Christopher White made a decision in 1989 that would ultimately turn the tide
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for Crosley green Mark and Diane suspect the girl did it she changed her story a
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couple of times white took these notes after his meeting with Mark rxy and Diane Clark when they told him their
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suspicions about Kim HCK one thing was she tied his hands behind his back she never asked how the
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victim was while at the homicide she wouldn't go down there to the scene why wouldn't the guy say who
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shot him white never turned those notes over to crosley's original lawyer this is the evidence of Innocence that was
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hidden by the prosecutor what was your reaction when you first read those notes I was shocked um I really couldn't
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believe it they can't just hide that evidence they can't cover it up they have to disclose it to the defense
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defense attorney Jean Thomas says those notes which included inconsistencies in Kim H's story would have been crucial at
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trial it goes to the heart of the defense theory of the case that there was no black man at the scene of this
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crime that it was these two teenagers that there was an accident and then there was a story that was made up
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after the fact those notes would have had a tremendous impact on the case and for that reason in July
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2018 a federal judge ruled that by withholding those notes prosecuters violated Crosley Green's right to a fair
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trial his conviction was overturned it was a miracle that finally there was a court that said yes his
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constitutional rights were violated when his conviction was overturned what did you think would happen man I I thought
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my brother would be home but Crosley didn't come home because the state appealed arguing that the notes that
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prosecutor white withheld wouldn't have changed the outcome of the original trial Crosley was held in prison waiting
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for the court of appeals to decide honestly I did not think it would take this long but then the Corona virus
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invaded the prison where Crosley green was held his situation became even more precarious after he was diagnosed with
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latent tuberculosis in March of 2021 crosley's attorneys filed a motion for his immediate
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[Music] release this is the day that we long for God and we thank you Father for opening
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the doors that men have shut for us father we thank you for those that you gave us favors with Father God for
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you bringing our brother home crossby green I can't tell you where I was thinking or what I saw how I felt oh
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that's right hold your head up Pap your head up [Music] than I was just looking around wondering
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is is this for real she a know and at one point now I really wonder is real thank you Jesus thank you
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thank you [Music] brother now that crosy green is home his very large and loving family has
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descended upon him everybody wants a piece of the man they know as Papa green I thought maybe it would be the
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kids that really want to be with me or want to talk with me the grownups be making them kids get out the way they
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push the kids to the side they want to be first son Crosley has a lot of catching
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up to do so many relatives weren't even born when he went to prison if it was for my family I I
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wouldn't be here my sister celes she always told me don't give up your day going to come I always say all right
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girl when I get out we going to do things you know but that day never came she died crosley's sister Celestine is
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buried in a cemetery just down the road from where he stay but he can't visit her grave or go most anywhere else
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without special permission from his probation officer I was told I couldn't go to the mailbox he's free but right
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now without that special permission he can't Venture Beyond his brother-in-law's property line show me
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take me a little bit where you can go how far here but right right here Crosley calls it his 12
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yards of freedom and showed me his new Jailer here it is right here this ankle break bracelet right here it's
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challenging for him crley has many many grandchildren most of whom he's he's never met he wants to take them to a
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park and go fishing and teach them how to fish and you know sit under a tree uh and tell stories and he he can't uh he
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can't do that at least not until the US court of appeals hands down its decision there is
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a chance the court will side with the state reinstate crosley's conviction and send him back to
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prison does that ankle bracelet also remind you that your time home might be temporary it does I I got to be honest
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with you it does but uh I really don't believe I'm going back I really B that deep down in my soul I'm not going back
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to prison but less than a year later in March of 2022 the US court of appeals came back
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with a decision that caught everyone off guard it was unexpected and it was it was pretty shocking the Court ruled that
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those notes Christopher white failed to turn over to crosley's defense would not
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have changed the outcome of his trial his conviction was reinstated crosley's Last Hope to ask
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the US Supreme Court to take his case but in February of 2023 come on in and have a seat the attorneys gathered the
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Green family together to break the bad news the Supreme Court is not going to hear our case
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Crosley has run out of legal options which means he has to go back to prison his sister surely took the news
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hard is y'all going to send him back to prison for a crime he didn't commit y'all going to take him away from his
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family again you took him 33 years there was a fair amount of anger why do my brother have to continue going through
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this it was very emotional it was raw it's not right there was a lot of Deep deep
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sadness um you could almost feel like the family was kind of coming apart right right there in front of you they
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failed us the system failed us but we just got dropped in the last round for crosley's son schuma the thought of
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losing his father again was inconceivable you ain't the only one doing time we doing time right with you
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it's a family thing and now it's getting torn apart again they just miss him terribly he just is such an important
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patriarch among that family a role model um but he he keeps that family together
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I can feel what they feel and in that difficult moment Crosley assumed the role of patriarch again you have show me
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a lot since I've been home but we going to get this together we going to be all right if we stay
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together I can't be hurt cuz I uh I still got faith I got the LA on myself side I'm happy I am happy love you
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baby on his last weekend as a free man Crosley seemed almost hopeful I'm a religious person and I have a lot of
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faith and trust and most importantly I still believe in a sister I don't have no no
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hatred I have no sadness I can't dwell on that couldn't sleep I will start getting
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angry and that's not me Crosley has made the most of the time he spent at home this year has been a
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remarkable year I got a job I never missed a day on he made Hightech metal parts and left a big impression Crosley
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says his co-workers called him PPE and what does p PE stand for Pure positive and energy that's what it stand
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for Crosley also fell in love and got engaged his fiance Catherine spikes when we did meet it was
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butterflies but at the same time it was excitement how soon did you know that this was the guy you want to be with
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after our first phone call what man these days sit on the phone for 6 hours I think just the compassion that he
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showed me um that it was just a simple the sound and tone of his voice that made everything like oh my God you can
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make everything all right for me does it make it tough to go back yes and no no because I've always tried to
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prepare her for the worst like myself let's just say if I do not get that Miracle
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tomorrow but it's coming you know I'm not going to have to tell her goodbye or anything I'm always love
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her on his last Sunday just like every other Sunday since he's been out with me Crosley went to church brother Crosby
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up this time he said goodbye do not worry and this is what I be trying to tell my
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sisters my family do not worry I see tears fall from there they bother me I'm okay I can do this let me do this let me
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show y'all be strong with me I'm in God's hand amen amen I am in God's [Music] hand on Monday April 17
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2023 2 years after crosley's conditional release love you baby love you too he said a goodbye to his family I love you
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love you too love you love you too he left each one of them with a few words of wisdom I love
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you I want you to continue doing what you're doing we have just take one day out of time everything going to be okay
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on what could be his last day outside Prison Walls hey I love y'all man listen listen y'all be strong man then he
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joined his fiance C and attorneys everything be okay for the drive to the correction
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center she's been right there by my side more family members arrived okay say see you
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later last two years been some of the greatest time I ever had all these memories I got those are my memories
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I think I'm going to be free soon it ain't about the case it's about me it's about a human being that wants his
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freedom want to be able to be around his grandkids his little nieces nephews his brothers his sisters family
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and friends you know this is what this is about they need me I need them too but they need me
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