Crystal Champagne Pt. One

to death. However, Damon maintains that his confession was coerced and none of the physical evidence from the crime matches him. After serving sixteen years, Damon's conviction is vacated and he is released from death row. But Crystal's real killer is never found.

confessed to the crime. Even though Damon recanted his confession and claimed he had been coerced, he was still charged and convicted of Crystal's murder and received the death penalty. Damon would spend sixteen years behind bars, but since none of the physical evidence matched him, he was eventually exonerated

before his conviction was overturned and he was released. This story was once featured on an episode of the true crime TV show forty eight Hours, and I decided to cover it on The Trail Went Cold Back in September of twenty twenty one, shortly after learning that Damon Thibodeaux passed away due to complications from COVID nineteen. Well, it's good that Damon was exonerated before his death. The actual murder victim in this case, Crystal Champagne, has still never

received justice. So on this series of episodes, we're not only going to explore what went wrong, but also try to figure out who the real perpetrator might have been.

for DNA to be tested, to really from prison. It is nearly impossible to get the court system to reverse a ruling that they've made right because it's admitting we've made a mistake somewhere. We've allowed someone to be prosecuted and convicted when their rights were not met, when the evidence wasn't there, and or when they're innocent. And so the fact that not only did Damian confess, which shows a lot of problems in our system, but also the

charge was vacated, the conviction was vacated, speaks volumes. This man was on death row. So for him to get vacated from death row, you have to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt and more that he's innocent, or that there's proof that his rights were not met and that something went wrong in the prosecution of this individual. So if you look at this one, I love it because I remember when I first started dating Rebel. I said, oh, you know, one of the things I love to look

at is wrongful conviction. And he said, oh, that stuff's so bizarre to me, Like, who would falsely confess to something they didn't do? And I have never been more excited in my life to teach somebody I love about something. You guys know me, and you can imagine, I'm like, Okay,

here we go. We're watching this documentary. In this documentary, I'm going to teach you about this and that false confessions are not as abnormal as you would think, because we train officers to use something called the read techniques.

And when you combine the actual types of questions and scenarios they present to people being interrogated, and you add other elements like age, background, intellect, and ability those kinds of things, it's actually not that crazy to be able to convince somebody that they could have done a certain crime. And so I cannot wait to hear what happens in that interrogation room. What Damon eventually says occurs. Because keep in mind, the police who trust and we expect to

bring justice to a scenario. If they believe somebody is guilty, they will go in with that assumption and do things like present false evidence, convince the person they failed to polygraph when maybe they didn't discuss how you know there's someone in another room as an eyewitness when there's not so when you have tons and tons of information like that being piled on you, long interrogations, best of luck.

I would never want to be sitting in an interrogation room without an attorney because it's not it's not out of the question that someone who's innocent would confess to something they didn't do.

evidence against him was a false confession. But like your example you just mentioned with rebel, false confessions still have a lot of weight for people because even if there's no other evidence against this defendant, juries still will convict because they hold a mentality like why would you confess to a crime that you did not commit, and a lot of these cases, the person who makes the confession

recancel immediately. In figure as well, they're going to find out I'm innocent, this is going to be sorted out and I'll be released. But more often not that doesn't happen, and it leads to tragic stories like this.

exactly what Rebel did. They do exactly what my students did, which is when you say, who wouldever falsely confess, the whole jury says no one. I would never do that, and so it didn't need any other evidence in this case when Damien said, when Damon said I did it, he was done. He was going to be convicted because that jury believes no one in their right mind would

ever say I did it. Of course, quote everyone who commits a crime is quote innocent in prison, right, And they just go, hey, if he said he did it, he did it, and let's send him to prison. They sent this man to death row.

Tanglewood Apartments with her parents CJ. And Dawn Champagne. At around five fifteen pm on July nineteenth, Crystal left her apartment in order to walk to a nearby wind Dixie supermarket to purchase some noodles, but after an hour passed, she failed to return and her family went out and started searching for her. Crystal could not be found, so her mother reported her missing to Jefferson Parish Sheriff's office.

Over the course of the next twenty four hours, a number of people canvass the area with missing persons, flyers for Crystal, and witnesses would recall having seen her at the Winn Dixie supermarket on the night she disappeared. Finally, at around seven forty p m. On the evening of July twentieth, a family friend and neighbor named Stacy Mulansen called the police from a payphone in the unincorporated community of Bridge City to inform them that Crystal had been

found dead. Stacy claimed that she and her boyfriend John Tomlinson had shown Crystal's flyer to a pair of women at a convenience store in Bridge City who told them they were called seeing a girl matching Crystal's description walking down the levee next to the Mississippi River the previous evening.

When Stacy and John went to the area, they soon discovered Cristel's body in a wooded area underneath the Huey Pea Long Bridge, the location which was about five miles from Cristel's apartment, and an autopsy would reveal that she'd been strangled to death and beaten with a blunt object, as she had a fractured skull and a missing tooth, as well as hemorrhaging to her right eye and forehead. A red industrial wire which had likely been used to

strangle Crystal, was found tied to a nearby tree. Since her shirt was pulled off over her breath, and her shorts and underwear were pulled down, it appeared that Crystal had also been the victim of a sexual assault. It would later be estimated that Crystal had been dead around twenty four hours before she was found, placing her approximate time of death sometime between seven and eight pm on July nineteen Okay.

and rage and power struggle there. It's a very disturbing scene that they stumbled upon when they find Crystal's body.

that Crystal was murdered at this place. So, before Crystal's body was found, investigators from the Jefferson Pair ofsh Sheriff's Office had already been interviewing a number of her friends and family members, including her twenty two year old step cousin, Damon Thibodeau, whose mother was once married to Cristel's uncle. Damon had lived in Midland, Texas, but weeks earlier, after traveling to New Orleans to attend his sister's wedding, he decided that he wanted to remain in the area to

be closer to his family. He moved in with his mother and got a job as an offshore deckhand on a Mississippi River barge. Even though the Champagne family didn't know Damon all that well. They quickly befriended him, and on the night before Cristal went missing, he went out drinking with down In CJ and stayed over at their apartment. Damon was still there when Crystal left to go to the supermarket the following day, and she had even asked him for a ride, but he declined because he was

busy fixing a watch. Damon actively participated in the search effort for Crystal before he returned to his mother's house on the evening of July the twentieth. Shortly after he arrived, investigators showed up there in order to question Damon, and he agreed to accompany them to the police station for an interview. However, shortly after the questioning started, investigators were informed that Crystal's body had been found, and they started focusing on Day as a potential suspect.

odd or some sexual frustration going on. If she had asked for him to do anything with her, it almost seems like he would jump and say, well, yes, of course I'll take you to work, right, of course, I'll go with you there, or maybe he wouldn't leave her alone, or he'd follow her. The fact that he's like, god, now this watch, I gotta work on this watch. It's so nonchalant of like not even interested right in engaging

with her in a place outside of the home. So that's an interesting little quirk to me when you talk about someone who's going to bludgeon potentially attempt to sexually assault somebody. He had chances where he could be isolated alone with her and he turned those down.

entire night. So it really doesn't make much sense for her to ask him for a ride, for him to say no, I'm going to stay here, fix my watch, and then a short time later like leave and go after her and then abductor and murder her. So it still makes me wonder, like why they felt that Damon would be a likely suspect.

So at one point, Damon agreed to take a polygraph test, but he was informed that the results showed signs of deception. Damon provided the names of all the people that he'd been with during the previous twenty four hours and said they could function as his alibi witnesses, but the detectives lied to him by stating that these witnesses had already

disputed his alibi. They told Damon they had evidence he killed Crystal, and even planted the idea into his head that he may have blacked out and committed the crime without even remembering it. The interrogation continued on until the early morning hours of July twenty first, and at four twenty one am, Damon finally confessed to Crystal's murder, stating quote, I didn't know that I had done it, but I'd

done it. He claimed that he'd picked up Crystal in his car after she left the supermarket and proceeded to drive her to the levee under the Hueyplong Bridge. They began to have sex until Crystal yelled out, ouch it hurts, take it easy. When she resisted, Damon said it caused him to snap, and he proceeded to rape and beat Crystal before strangling her to death. Afterward, he returned to Crystal's apartment and assisted with the search effort for her.

telling you you're wrong. And then they amp it up by telling you, oh, those witnesses that are going to have your back, your friends. Unfortunately for you, they've already flipped on you and turned on you. So psychologically you start thinking, what in the heck is happening? Right, I'm just gonna stick with my story, and you know what, I'll take a polygraph test whatever, I'll take a polygraph

and that'll prove that I'm telling the truth. And I'm assuming they lied to him that he failed the polygraph. Is that correct?

evidence that you actually killed her. We have your physical evidence at the scene. They're allowed to do that. It's part of the legal doctrine that if they need to falsify information to get a suspect of talk, they can.

Well they did here, and that's another element that's leaning poor Damon to go wait what Okay, So he's continuing to be confused and frustrated and then they're going to say, you know what, Damon, I know you don't remember doing this because I don't think you would do that, right, You're a good man. So they're going to build him up now that they've torn him down. However, Damon, there we believe that you blacked out and then you did this crime like you wouldn't do it. You're a good human.

We're going to make sure people know you're a good human. But you got to tell us the truth, Damon, because we think you blacked out, you don't remember everyone who knows you saying you did it. We have proof you did it, and you fail to polygraph, man, like, your only way out is to tell us the truth now, and maybe we can help you, right, maybe we can make this a little bit better on you. So Damon's doing one of two things, or maybe a combination of both.

He's at the point where he's like, holy crap, nine hours into this, my only way out is going to be to lie because obviously people will know that this stuff is not true once I get on the other side and away from these people. Or two, he actually starts to slightly believe what they're saying because I am

a good person. I was with my friends. If my friends are saying that I left or hurt her, and the police are saying there's evidence and that maybe I blacked out, and everybody's saying that, and I failed a polygraph. What if I did do this and just don't remember. And so what starts to happen is he will try to tell a story to the police that satisfy them, whether he's believing it or whether he's making it up. Then what's going to happen is he's gonna get facts wrong.

She was I don't know. He would make up a fact that doesn't fit the police narrative, and they'd say, ooh, that's not quite right. Why don't you tell us again? But this time, what weapon do you think you used to hit her? Mm, it's not that. Nope, try again, And over the course of nine hours they're going to craft a beautiful story where by the very end, Damon is able to say, you know what happened. I picked up Crystal in the car after she left the supermarket.

I drove her down to the levee under the Huey p Long Bridge. We started to have sex. Crystal yells out out it hurts take it easy. And when she resisted, I snapped. And then they're going to say, okay, good, that's good, good job, Damon, sign right here for us, and we're going to make sure that because you've told the truth, you know, like, we help you out, buddy. And when they walk out that door, Damon has completely sealed his fate, and in this case, sealed it to

the point where the jury says, holy creud. The man just described verbatim what he did to her. He needs to be on death row, period. What the heck? Tragic, absolutely tragic. All without an attorney present. None of this would have happened. If he had just known to say, hey, I want an attorney, which most innocent people don't know to do.

Let's start working on him and get him to confess, and I haven't even mentioned yet that he had been up for a long period of time with no sleep, so he was completely exhausted by that point, So you can understand why nine more hours of interrogation he might actually get to the point where he's thinking, hmm, maybe I did block out, maybe I did it and don't even remember it. And he pretty much gets to the point where it's like, I will say anything to get this to stop.

of to focus on reality. Like I don't know, Robin, you don't have to admit this, but Jules, I don't know if you've ever been so exhausted that, like things seem so irrational, like everything's a big deal, everything's a problem. Reality is hard to decipher between you know, right and wrong, the truth or falls. So that would add a whole nother layer.

important is survival. And at that point, to survive, they're telling you what you need to do, and that is confess, and so it puts him in such a precarious position because he's almost willing to do anything to survive, and he's going to be going along with what these authority figures are telling him, not really realizing the repercussions and the ramifications for his choices at that time because he didn't have legal representation.

started to lose all sense of reality. He claimed that at one point, the detective threatened him with the death penalty and went into graphic detail about how painful it would be for him to die by a lethal injection. They told Damon that he might reci ove leniency if he confessed, so he finally decided to tell them what they wanted to hear in order to make the whole

ordeal stop. Indeed, it turned out there were a lot of issues with the confession, as only fifty four minutes of the nine hour interrogation session were recorded, and Damon got a number of details wrong about the crime. For starters, Damon claimed that before he strangled Crystal with the wire, he had first choked her with his bare hands, but there were no injuries on her throat to support that will. It seemed clear that the red wire found tied to

a nearby tree was the murder weapon. Damon said that he used a clear, black or gray speaker wire, which he had gotten from the trunk of his car. In fact, one if the detectives had even followed up this statement by asking Damon if he had any red wire inside his vehicle. Even though the severe injuries to Crystal's face indicated that she had been bludgeoned with the blunt object, Damon only mentioned hitting her with his fists, and while he said that Crystal's body was face down when he

left the scene, she was actually found face up. The rubbling inconsistency was that Damon had confessed to raping Crystal and specifically mentioned ejaculating as he squeezed Crystal's throat, but there was no trace of any semen found in or on her body. In fact, even though crystal shirt had been pulled up and her shorts pulled down, it did

not appear that she was sexually assaulted at all. Forensic testing would be performed on eighty six pieces of physical evidence, but nothing could be found to link Damon to the crime. And while some hares and fibers were taken from Damon's car, none of the match Crystal.

because he's innocent. I'm not saying if there's a suspect that's guilty and they're they're you know, getting an actual story, that's fine. But in this case, we we can look back and say it's a false confession. They have been feeding him information over and over again, that's not right. Try again, what did you use? How did you do it? Nope, try again, what did you use? How did you do it? And they keep having him alter it until they get

a story that goes that's it, that's what works. And if he's telling them, he's got to be quote telling the truth right. Wrong. But they're only going to record this one moment where it looks like he walks in. They ask him some questions and he tells him everything they need to know. Yep, I killed her. Yes, I sexually assaulted her. Yes, I overreacted and beat her. Yes,

I used this weapon. It's a story that has so much confidence behind it, which is why the jury at the moment he says I did it, and they see this easy recording of his story. Right, it's not nine hours they're watching, They're watching forty five minutes. At the end, they say he did it, even when you have forensic testing that shows, guys, there's nothing that lines up with what he said. They're so fixated on the fact that they would never say they did something they did not do.

They're so fixated on that fact they actually let forensic testing go out the window and don't even consider the fact that something could be wrong with this interrogation and confession.

But here, like they're doing this immediately after they found Crystal's body without doing any investigating whatsoever. So you'd think you might want to check if the physical evidence matches Damon and like try to figure out if he physically could have done this, if he had an alibi or anything like that. But it's not like, well, we have a guy in an interrogation room, let's pin the crime on them and worry about the rest of the evidence later. And that's pretty much what happened here.

and then they realized his DNA doesn't match. So they go down the line where these guys are just naming another person in their unit, and by the fourth one who confesses and is sentenced to prison, four of them go to prison. Finally a man comes forward says, I'm the one who raped and killed her. Right he's already serving time. They said, well, these guys must have killed her with you, and he's like, no, I did it

by myself. Man, I don't even know these guys. They were so hung up on the fact that people wouldn't falsely confess and they could not have gotten it wrong, that they kept the story going by adding elements even when the real killer was telling them the truth. And so it blows my face off. If y'all really want to be mad. Look that one up, nor Folk four.

In addition to Damon's confession, corroborating evidence was presented by two eyewitnesses who testified that on the night of the crime, they had seen a man matching Damon's description nervously pacing on the levee near the spot where Kristel's body was found. Police later showed them a photo lineup, and they both

identified Damon as the man they saw. There was some question about whether Damon even had the opportunity to kill Crystal that night, as it would have taken between ten and fifteen minutes to drive from Krystel's apartment in Westwego

to the murder scene in Bridge City. Throughout the course of the evening, Damon was almost always in the company of other people who could vouch for his whereabouts, aside from a period of around thirty to forty five minutes when Damon claimed he was sitting alone in his parked car while smoking a joint. In her original statement to police, don Champagne said that Daemon was with her inside the apartment at seat thirty pm when she made the call

to report Crystal missing. Since Cristel's time of death was estimated to have been some time between seven and eight that night, this could have cleared Damon of any involvement, but when Dawn took the stand to testify at the trial, she now claimed that Damon was not with her when she phoned the police. The case went to the jury on October third, and after deliberating for only one hour, they found Damon guilty of aggravated rape and first degree murder.

Since the aggravating circumstances made Damon eligible for the death penalty, he was sentenced to be executed by a lethal injection.

of psychological coersion was used against her? Because you have cases where, let's say, if she has a record at all, they'll start talking to her in terms of like if you don't want your kids to be in danger, you want to separate yourself as far as you can from this murder. We know he did it, there's evidence he did it. You look like a fool right now. He clearly was not with you at that time. You must

have gotten your times wrong. But you're going to be the one who's going to be serving time in prison. If you want to sit there and say that he was with you, your children are going to need to find someone else to take care of them because you feel a need to lie to us about his whereabouts. I'm going to send you to prison on a drug charge that we're pretty sure you're involved in these kinds

of things. They'll start threatening them and manipulating them and get to the point, just like Damon was at, where they'll either lie to remove themselves from the situation and protect their own self and family, or they'll actually start to believe what the police are telling me. So wait a minute, he was with me, but you're telling me he failed the polygraph. You're telling me that there's witnesses that say they saw him do it, or that he

wasn't with them. You are telling me that he has DNA evidence, that there is a forensic evidence, there's evidence against him. I guess he wasn't with me, right, So she could believe it, or she could have changed her story to remove herself or to protect herself in this situation.

have evidence he killed her. And this was back in the nineties when I think people were a lot more trusting of police officers, and Don is probably thinking well off they saying that Damon did it, then they obviously must be right, because why would they intentionally lie and put the wrong guy in prison for my daughter's murder? And Ashley I am dying to hear. Do you believe the explanation that the maggots consumed the semen? Yeah? Doesn't that make logical sense?

and they see him again in the courtroom. Damon doesn't have somebody who's sitting there getting paid to go research, investigate, you know, advocate for him. He is a number on a caseload. He already confessed to the crime. So this poor defense attorney, who probably has seventy five other cases, goes, well, this means a slam shut.

in Angola. The controversial nature of his case eventually led to him being represented by a number of advocacy organizations, including The Innocence Project, the Capital Post Conviction Project of Louisiana, and a Minneapolis based law firm called Frederickson and Byron. A number of unsuccessful appeals were filed to overturn Damon's conviction, but it kept getting affirmed by the Louisiana Supreme Court

and the United States Supreme Court. In May of two thousand and seven, Damon's legal team decided to approach Jefferson County District Attorney Paul Connick Junior with the idea of launching a joint reinvestigation into the case, in which both sides would split the costs. Surprisingly, Kodick agreed to work with them, so a lot of the evidence was re examined. New DNA testing was performed on the clothing that Crystal and Damon had worn on the night of the crime.

The results showed no traces of Damon's DNA on Crystal's clothing and vice versa. A tiny sample of blood had been found on the red wire used to strangle Crystal and While testing revealed that the blood had a male DNA profile, it did not match Damon. The two eye witnesses who had reported seeing Damon pacing along the levee on the night of the crime were reinterviewed and made

some surprising admissions. Even though they both identified Damon from a photo lineup, they now said that they had previously seen Damon's photo in the newspaper after he was charged with the murder, which likely caused some cognitive bias when

they made their identification. However, what was particularly surprising is that the witnesses specifically mentioned seeing police tape at the scene when they saw this man, which would have meant that their sighting took place on the evening of July the twentieth, when Crystal's body was found, not on the nineteenth, when she was murdered, And since Damon was already in police custody on the evening of the twentieth, then the man that they saw at the levee could not have

been him. In addition, Dawn Champagne was also reinterviewed about her conflicting statements about whether Damon was still president at the apartment when she made the call to report Crystal missing, and she now said that her original statement to police about Damon being there was her best recollection.

If anyone had sat down and listened to him and was really advocating for the details and for true justice in this case, they would have known that this was not possible. But again, he's a number. He's already going to go to prison. That's what the attorney knows. I just got to make sure that his rights are intact. Here.

He's not being represented at all. There's no investigation or digging into it, because these are facts that were present then and we're sitting here talking about them now in hindsight. But they were present then, and none of these things are convincing a jury otherwise, so clearly his attorney failed him.

affidavit to Damon's legal team outlining all these discrepancies. Damon's defense team also brought in a psychologist to examine him and analyze his confession. It turned out that Damon had a very trouble childhood in which he was physically and sexually abused by multiple individuals. The psychologists concluded that Damon's abuse of upbringing had caused him to grow up with a natural fear of authority figures, which made him a lot more susceptible to confessing to something that he did

not do. Paul Connick Junior, countered by bringing in his own forensic psychiatrist, doctor Michael Welner, to analyze Damon's confession. Doctor Welner had a history of fighting with law enforcement, and while he did not believe that Damon's confession was coerced by police, he did conclude that it was false.

Like many others, Welner was troubled by the fact that no physical evidence linked Damon to the crime, and feorized that he may have confessed because he felt massive guilt over the fact that he'd turned down Crystal's request to give her a ride to the supermarket on the day that she was killed. Even though it was common practice for offenders to minimize their involvement whenever they admitted to a crime, Damon did the exact opposite by admitting to

a rape which never actually happened. So Welner found this to be a strong indicator that his confession was false.

a pride and ego game. It's also a way to cover my own butt by not being willing to relook at that case because I refuse to let someone say I got it wrong right, and then I sent it someone. I got someone convicted on false terms. I let somebody sit in prison when they didn't deserve to be there. But also we might owe them money or we might be sued because of that behavior. So you never really see people in power say I think we messed up.

When you see prosecutors like that, when you see integrity units where you have a prosecution team willing to say, hey, let's relok at this case. Even though he went forward with it when there wasn't good evidence, the fact that he was willing to sit down and re look at it does speak volumes. And here I don't think he could look the other way when you say, even my own experts are telling me this case is flawed, something's wrong, and he probably didn't do it.

lie because they cannot admit they were wrong. But Connick was one of the rare ones who realized that, ooh, I may have screwed up here and sent an innocent man to prison. But I do want to make things right, and I'm sure it was pretty overwhelming for him when his own experts said that, yeah, this confession was probably false and you probably got the wrong guy.

or not there's an innocent man sitting in jail. And we see so many cases where law enforcement or prosecutors commit would seem to be egregious acts. But in this case, we have somebody who really is worthy of being celebrated.

innocent man. So when Paul Konnick Junior examined doctor Welner's analysis, along with the results of the DNA testing and the other discredited evidence, he was finally convinced that the wrong person had been sent to prison. Connick and Damon's defense team subsequently filed a joint motion to drop the indictment against him, and this prompted a judge to vacate Damon's conviction.

On September twenty eighth, twenty twelve, after sixteen years of incarceration, Damon was finally released from death row and became a free man. This turned out to be a significant milestone, as Damon officially became the three hundredth wrongly convicted individual in the United States to be exonerated by DNA testing.

Following his release, Damon moved to Minnesota and began working at Frederickson and Byron, the law froom who represented him and since he had never graduated high school, Damon finally decided to obtain his ged At the time he was arrested, Damon had a five year old son named Josh, though they had not been in contact since Damon broke up

with Josh's mother years earlier. While he was incarcerated, Damon wrote a letter to Josh, who was living in Alabama at the time, and while they continued to correspond and started building up a relationship, Damon would not allow his son to visit him on death row, and they would have their first in person meeting on the day Damon

walked out of prison. While making his living as a long haul trucker, Damon became an active speaker for wrongful conviction reform and once stated during an interview, quote the best part of my day, no matter how good the rest of my day is, is when I wake up every morning and I don't see those bars end quote.

He eventually moved to Jacksonville, Florida, but unfortunately, on August the thirty first, twenty twenty one, Damon would succumb to complications from COVID nineteen and died at the age of forty seven. Even though the investigation into the murder of Crystal Champagne was reopened following Damon's release. There does not seem to have been much progress with finding a resolution, and the identity of Crystal's real killer remains unknown. So I guess you could say the path when Chile.

very active member of his son's life. That didn't happen. And not only was he in prison, y'all. He was on death row, like waiting thinking every day it takes one pen to sign a date of when I'm going to be executed, right, And that's horrified to think about. This is not just someone who was in prison. This

guy was could have been killed for something he didn't do. Remember, that's one of the things that actually the police lied to him in the interrogation room, threatening him with the death penalty and then saying, hey, if you can tell us what happened, like we can make sure that doesn't happen to you. What they signed a you know, they signed a death sentence for him, is what they did when they convicted him. And one third of this poor

man's life was sentence was spent behind bars. Think about it. The only thing he had on his record before that was a marijuana charge, two minor marijuana charges. That it doesn't matter. No one deserves to be wrongfully convicted. But this is some kid who just stumbles into an interrogation room tries to say, listen, I can get this all to be shut down if I just tell them what they want to hear and I'll figure it out later.

Uh yeah, he figures it out. What almost two decades later when he's being released after a wrongful conviction, but the fact he was on death row, the fact that a third of his life was spent there and he lost so many aspects of the life he should have been granted. It's horrific and we still have no justice.

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