system doesn t want to acknowledge that they made a mistake, but you made a mistake. the detective was like you re gonna tell us who did this and i was like, i didn t do anything. to hear the judge say guilty. everything just froze. two brothers convicted of murder their fight back against the justice system. twice is a pattern, pattern of how to gain a conviction. they knew they were innocent and the question was do we have enough. you have several witnesses saying their testimony was coerced, can they all be lying? if i have to die in this situation, let it be said that i died trying to prove that i was an innocent man, never that i gave up. never. hello and welcome to dateline, imagine spending nearly your entire adult life for a crime you did not commit, the minute the man you re about to meet say that that nightmare felt all too real to a decades long journey to prove their innocence they face roadblocks, giving up was not an option but would their fi
Mistake. The detective was like you will tell us you did this, and im like man, i didnt do anything. You hear the judge say guilty everything froze. Two brothers convicted of murder fight back against the justice system. Twice as a pattern, a pattern of how to gain a conviction. I knew they were innocent and the question was do we have enough . You have witnesses saying the testimony was coalhurst, can they will be lying . If i have to die in this situation, led it to be said that i would die trying to prove that i was an innocent man. Never that i gave up. Never. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Imagine spending nearly your entire adult life, behind bars for a crime you did not commit. The men that you are about to me, say that nightmare felt all too real. Three decades long journey to prove their innocence, they face countenance roadblocks. Giving up was not an option. But, with their fight lead to freedom . Here is, the long road to freedom. Tulsa, oklahoma. Look at a list of top pla
it must be like to be dropped in a whole 30 feet deep, and good luck getting out. there is no such thing is a criminal justice system. it is just a system. it is not always fair. and it is not always right. he tracked down the first eyewitness, who identified malcolm and demarco as the killers. and he could not even look me in the, i he said man i have been carrying around a burden. man, those boys did not do that. the man told colin, he shot at the drive by cars it s better, way and claimed that detectives threatened to put him behind bars, for firing his weapon, if he did not testify against malcolm and demarco. he says that they told him, he could be charged with felony murder, for firing that gun. it might not have been him that killed karen summers, who knows. now that he was making progress, he needed help.
he turned to someone who has been a champion against wrongful convictions, for years. tiffany murphy, then director of the oklahoma innocence project. it was not the first time that a tulsa case landed on murphy s desk. i was seeing a lot of cases, where there were no facts that supported what i was seeing in the convictions. when you are seeing that lack, overtime, involving the same departments, sheriff s office, police department, prosecutors office, that s what s really bothered me. colin in the innocence team, track down the second eyewitness you testified, that he had seen malcolm in demarco. but police records show that he had been shot in the buttocks, and his back was turned. common sense tells you, if you got shot in the butt, you are not able to see anything. the eyewitness, recanted,
man who told police he had given demarco bullets, and he had the murder weapon for him. if he recanted too, malcolm thought they had a chance. but michael wilson, refused to talk. and he had a good reason. he was on death row, for the 1995 murder of a convenience store manager. wilson, seen here in this surveillance video, while he committed the crime, was appealing. hoping he would get a lesser sentence, of life without parole. if michael had been executed, without talking to us, we do not have a case. we do not have enough with what we have so far, to win. i m hoping someone can help me. but demarco, was not ready to give up. a shout out to president obama, kevin durant, ice cube,