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
and get the girls, and make them laugh. but in north tulsa, fun could easily turn tragic in a split second. malcolm and demarco were at a party spot, late one night, in december 1993, when a drive-by shooter hit the place. malcolm was grazed, but demarco was badly injured. he was rushed to the hospital, malcolm by his side. he said hang in, there keep your eyes open. and he was holding my hand. and i remember him squeezing, hold on, hang in there. losing his brother to prison, then seeing his friend almost die, hardened malcolm. he inched a bit closer to the streets. in fact, police caught him with a handgun, something he says, probably would not have happened, if cory had been around. he s always been the one to say man no, what are you doing. you do and none of that. you need to be in school.
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
him. and found cory, guilty. on june 25th, 1991, he was sentenced to life and shipped off to a maximum security prison. just like that, he was out of malcolm s life. cory left when i was no more than 13. and that was hard. to fill the void, malcolm started to hang out more with demarco carpenter. a basketball player, in neighborhood jokester. i was going to be a comedian. i thought i was so funny. i always told jokes. and get the girls, and make them laugh. but in north tulsa, fun could easily turn tragic in a split second. malcolm and demarco were at a party spot, late one night, and december 1993, when a drive-by shooting hit the place. malcolm was grazed, but demarco was badly injured. he was rushed to the hospital, malcolm by his side.