you just pick a number and wait. prior to parole hearings the board sends a representative to conduct a preinterview to repair prepare a recommendation whether or not the inmate should be paroled. come on in, robert. please have a seat. okay. this morning i m going to be interviewing robert teter for a parole hearing he has set in august. any time you have an inmate that comes up for parole that s a sex offender, you know, red flags go up everywhere. when someone gets on parole, everyone has guidelines. of course, in your situation the guidelines are a little narrower because of the case. that s just something you ll have to stay within those guidelines just a little more tighter than someone else. now, according to your record, i didn t see anything in there where you had been on probation or parole before. is that correct? no. i see you were in the air force. yeah. you wasn t the parole officer here the last time, were you? no. i don t think i was the officer who intervie
i m here to visit my husband robert teter. ava teter lives just a few miles from holman and visits regularly. thank you. you ready? yes. all right. come on. you visit every two weeks and you can stay from 8:00 until about 1:20. for a long time it was real stressful, but then you sort of get used to it. it sort of gets like a daily routine and everything. just like everyday life. love you. love you. you okay? yeah. my wife comes over to visit, i feel like i m 25 again. three days later after she leaves i m back to 70 again. you know? age catches up to you. she is everything. i mean, i don t know how to say
cup of coffee. first thing. cup of coffee and a cigarette. that s it. that s every morning. then, you know, comb your hair, get dressed, go outside. there is no such thing as a holiday here. there s no christmas. there s no tree. every day is the same. when you get up, it s the same people, the same thing, the same rat race, and there s no relaxation. at the time of our shoot he still had ten years left on a 30-year sentence for some very serious convictions. they include sodomy, public exposure and enticement of a child. robert was one of those inmates who was adamant he was falsely accused, falsely convicted. ever since his 1984 conviction teter said his charges were trumped up in order
paroled. come on in, robert. please have a seat. okay. this morning i m going to be interviewing robert teter for a parole hearing he has set in august. any time you have an inmate that comes up for parole that s a sex offender, you know, red flags go up everywhere. when someone gets on parole, everyone has guidelines. of course, in your situation the guidelines are a little narrower because of the case. that s just something you ll have to stay within those guidelines just a little more tighter than someone else. now, according to your record, i didn t see anything in there where you had been on probation or parole before. is that correct? no. i see you were in the air force. yeah. you wasn t the parole officer here the last time, were you? no. i don t think i was the officer who interviewed you. every time before it was what is your home plan and your job plan. i gave them that and that was it.
to run him out of town. i found out a bunch of people here in alabama needed a good contractor so i moved up to alabama. five years later i got a warning to get out of town and stop contracting or we re going to stop you. i laughed at them because i was licensed for everything. plumbing, electrical, everything. they stopped me. they pulled the rug out from under my feet, laid fake charges on me and took me to court. i have been here since 1990. and it s a long time. now i have three grandkids out there, and i m a great-grandfather, i was told. and all this has happened while i ve been in prison the last 20 years. the hardest part of it is being without my wife. it s like she s she s everything. she s the bubble i live in. i m here to visit my husband robert teter. ava teter lives just a few miles from holman and visits regularly.