2007, nailah attended an art gallery opening, and he came. this lawyer from milwaukee, andre wright. she had a big, beautiful smile. she was a very pretty woman. very warm personality. and we just kind of walked around the space looking at different pieces, talking about my interests. what i was looking for in a piece of art. obviously, i tried to engage her. suddenly, this is a different search than it was before. i mean, the artwork became of little interest, to me, at that point. just like that, it was all over. for both of them. you know, i don t want to go all hallmark card on you or anything like that. that s okay. but i mean, this was clearly kind of a transcendental moment or something. yeah, absolutely, definitely. nailah s family loved andre. what family wouldn t? she brought him to my child s first birthday party. he brought my baby a gift. i was like who does that? because
without parole. take him away. so that was justice. the most nailah s family could hope for. terribly important. and strangely empty. it s still not done. she s still not back. you still can t talk with her. no. they try to remember nailah not as a murder victim but as the beautiful young woman she was. the vibrant center of her family. but grief, real and painful, comes to visit every day. you know, people say, oh, well, she s your spirit and she s your angel and she s in a better place and all this other stuff. i m like yeah, but i want her here. i don t want my 28-year-old sister to be my angel. i want her to be right here in the thick of it with me. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m craig melvin.
something like amazement as reginald turned speedy justice into something else altogether. he hired lawyers, he fired lawyers. he tried to act as his own attorney. at each step of the process, the trial had to be reset. one, two, three years passed that way. in the fourth year after the murder, illinois abolished capital punishment, so that was off the table. and still, reginald s actions forced delays. this is one of the most bizarre cases we ve seen in chicago. just as nailah s family had reached out to the media, reginald potts tried to launch a p. r. campaign from behind bars. his family reached out trying to convince people that there may be some way that he s not associated with this crime. that it might be someone else, that there was a rush to judgment. he talked to a newspaper columnist who wrote sympathetically about his treatment in jail. and every delay, every manipulation, was slow torture.
white bentley. and then in july, 2007, nailah attended an art gallery opening, and he came. this lawyer from milwaukee, andre wright. she had a big beautiful smile. she was a very pretty woman. very warm personality. and we just kind of walked around the space looking at different pieces, talking about my interests. what i was looking for in a piece of art. obviously, i tried to engage her. suddenly this is a different search than it was before. i mean, the artwork became of little interest to me at that point. just like that, it was all over. for both of them. you know, i don t want to go all hallmark card on you or anything like that. that s okay. but i mean, this was clearly kind of a transcendental moment or something. yeah, absolutely, definitely. nailah s family loved andre. what family wouldn t? she brought him to my child s first birthday party. he brought my baby a gift. i
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