you know, i read this book every night in my cell during my pregnancy. because every time i called home, my brother would put me on speakerphone and i d hear my son like she s trying to root for the phone making noise with his mouth. so i know he knows my voice. so that helps me, you know, be close to my 6-week-old. coming up hey. cedric poore gets a visit. from his wife. and later, two best friends await transfer to prison. but before they leave, one receives devastating news from home. and i ll never desert you i ll stand by you yeah! yeah. so, that s our loyalty program. you re automatically enrolled. and the longer you stay, the more rewards you get. great. oh! i ll stand by you won t let nobody hurt you isn t there a simpler way to explain the loyalty program? yes. standing by you from day one.
my best lawyer is me right now. only thing i can do is continue i can read, i can write. it don t take much for me to learn. i ll appoint a public defender to represent you on this case. good luck. all right james poore. good morning, mr. poore. i believe you are represented by cathy frye, is that correct? yes, sir. unlike cedric whose public defender is likely to be carrying a heavy case load and have limited resources, james poore has hired a private defense attorney. miss frye has been in this morning. not guilty plea entered on your behalf. good luck. thank you. after the arraignment, the two brothers try to talk. but an officer notices the exchange and separates them. did that go the way you thought? oh, no. i didn t know nothing about no attorney.
cedric poore looks forward to a release date as well. that s not likely to occur anytime soon. he and his brother james are charged with the execution-style murder of four white women. before he stopped speaking to us, james said he feared race would influence their trials. truthfully i didn t expect to get no fair shake at this anyway. we re in the state of oklahoma and it was four white women that got killed. me and my brother, two black gentlemen with prison records. i mean you do the math. cedric says, if nothing else, he can prove he s not a racist. his wife of five months just arrived for a visit. you here to see cedric poore. j-11. get cedric poore for a noncontact, please. today i get one of my joyous visits with my wife and i m just waiting for her to come through. what do these visits do for
you? keep me motivated and keep me going. keep my spirits up. get me to think about everything besides these four walls. hey handsome. hey, sweetie, how you doing? good, how are you? cedric is very family oriented. he s quiet, if you don t know him. not racist. yeah. the media is portraying him to be racist. obviously, i m white, his best friends are white. he s not racist. i miss you. i miss you, too. i don t know if they know he s married to a white lady. surprise. i want to touch. i know. anxious. this glass is killing me. frustrated. that will work, too. that will work, too. that s the closest we can get baby, for now. i know. when i learned he had been arrested and charged, i actually had to pull over and vomit on the side of the highway. my world has changed in every
james and cedric poore will have their arraignments today. it is the first time the brothers will have seen each other since they were charged. cedric poore. please come up to the podium, please. all right, good morning, mr. poore. cedric had been out of prison for 11 months prior to being charged with the quadruple homicide. he had served nearly 17 years for armed robbery after holding up the customers at a tulsa strip club. i wanted to work like the joneses, i wanted to work like the jeffersons but i wanted to live like donald trump. it wasn t worth it. nevertheless, i did it. i suffered the consequences for doing it. probable cause for your detention on four charges of murder in the first degree. three charges of robbery with a firearm. on the murder charges being held without bond. now facing charges that could result in the death penalty, cedric cannot afford an attorney.