where to put my face. i guess that s what i have to live with from that time on. steve cohen says that admission by a juror will not necessarily help velazquez. he s always been convicted, 12 people said guilty. and now to come in and say i want you to look at it again, i want all of that work to be washed away because there s a grave injustice here. the system doesn t really work that way. in the meantime, one of the original defense lawyers on the case, norman reamer, has written the manhattan district attorney. reimer says there was a substantial possible that velazquez was unfairly convicted. but for now, all jon-adrian velazquez and his family can do is wait. in god we trust, because men make mistakes. all i can do is trust in god. do you have hope?
i drove to the corner and i can t forget how i felt. i let out this scream. it was such a loud scream. inside the precinct, three eyewitnesses from the numbers spot identified velazquez as the gunman and he was charged with first-degree murder. what s going through your mind? i wouldn t be able to tell you what s going through my mind. all i know is i m stuck in a cage, you know, laying on a cold slab. soon darry daniels would plead guilty to robbery in return for a ten-year sentence. velazquez claims he didn t know daniels and he was innocent and told his lawyers no deal. i don t want to hear about a plea bargain. i m going all the way. no way i would concede to this.
dorothy kennedy testified before the jury that she looked directly into the eyes of the gunman and that she would never forget his face. and she s asked while she s on the stand, do you see the person who shot and killed albert ward in the courtroom and she says yes. you know what happens? you know who she points out? juror number six. the jury s there laughing. but this ain t a joke. this is my life on the line. it was funny, in a sense. 14 years later, we found juror number six. his name is ramon. i saw the other jurors looking at me. i realized, whoa, did she just pick me out? the defense then presented its case, beginning by pointing out that velazquez did not match the original description of the shooter. we have every eyewitness say the persons involved were male blacks. lo and behold, when they have the lineup, you have jon-adrian velazquez, who is hispanic.
jon-adrian velazquez, it was only the beginning. once augustus brown picks out jon-adrian velazquez, there is no need to look for mustafa. why were you in the photo that augustus brown selected? i ve done some things i regret, not proud of no more. i realized they were wrong. months earlier, velazquez had been arrested for drug possession. while he was never convicted of that or any other crime, police still had his mugshot in their files. remember, when velazquez heard he was wanted he turned himself in and volunteered to appear in a lineup even though he said his attorney was against it. i said, well, whose choice is it? i have nothing to do with this, i have nothing to hide. you re pretty confident. i had every right to be confident. he didn t run, he didn t flee, he didn t go and try to hop a plane. it was velazquez s mother, maria, who dropped her son off at the precinct, the last time she saw him as a free man.
develops a ked. velazquez would be held at rikers island before a jury would hear his story. i was feeling confident. i was feeling confident that, you know, the truth will set me free. coming up a showdown in court. a prosecutor versus a mom. when the d.a. said that i m just a mother who would do anything to save my son, that felt like a rock had hit my chest and blew the wind out of me, because i told the truth. when conviction continues. when you re not confident your company s data is secure, the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about. that s where at&t can help. at at&t we monitor our network traffic so we can see things others can t.