united states, only 18 have been dna exonerations. so it really shows that we have a lot of systemic problems outside of dna testing. by the way, there was no direct evidence. there was eyewitness testimony that proved all to be mistaken. right. it was someone who just called anonymously to the police to suggest i think i know the guy you re looking for. my next door neighbor called the police and said it looks leak my neighbor, kirk. looks like. looks like my neighbor, kirk. and he said the witnesses said that this guy i saw was 6 5 . curly blonde hair. bushy mustache. tan skin and skinny. my hair was as red as a fire plug back in those days. i had side burn down to here. missing tooth in the front. and there is a picture of me back in that time. back then, that picture of you, does that resemble anything at all like the man they eventually caught for the crime? i don t think so. in fact, after we found him out
nyu law professor kenji yoshino. barry shekt, co-director of the innocence project and the man in the photo. kurt bloods worth, an advocacy director at witness to innocence. i want to start with you. tell me a little bit about how your story turned into your work. well, in 1984, i was accused of a brutal crime that happened in maryland. a long story short, after two years on death row thanks to people like barry here, we submitted for the dna testing. i was freed. it took another ten years to from pressure from barry and i and others to do a dna testing. this was all based on a guy described as 6 5 , bushy mustache, tan skin. in the end he was only 5 6 and 160 pounds. but i have been i had
a person that was described as being 6 5 , curly blond hair, bushy mustache, tan skin, and skinny. chris, in 1984 my hair was as red as an apple. i had side burns down to here. i had a missing tooth in the front and i don t tan, i burn. and i wheighed over 200 and som points at that time. after the dna tests were done and becoming the first dna exonree we found out the real killer was not 6 5 , but 5 6 and 160 pounds. eyewitness accounts are notoriously suspect. you re currently the advocacy director who is pushing to end capital punishment. since 1976 maryland has executed five people. the last in 2005. but there are five men on death row right now. right. how tough is this fight?
interesting he had a big gold chain, a bushy mustache. called himself rojo johnson just let out of prison for smuggling lizards out of venezuela into the united states. turns out it was will ferrell coming into the game out of the bull pen. he s got a cancer benefit down there doing some promotion. so they brought him out of the bull pen. evident drinking beer on the mound and that guy charged the mound. will farrell throws a beer at him. a good place to start and then he picks up his beer and high tails it for the outfield. that was in the middle of an actual baseball game, minor league baseball game. he only faced the one-hitter. threw the one pitch. the mustache is gone. yeah. the mustache is gone by now. rojo johnson. did the guy on the other team know this was a joke? let s hope so. will ferrell eventually did make it out behind the outfield