it was a man who lit himself on fire feet away from me and a public park and i say i was shocked, would be an understatement. you must remember. i didn t come to this anchor desk in a traditional way. i was a federal prosecutor who was gone in and out of a courthouse more times and i can remember inside those courtrooms, you get witnesses to recount truly horrific details and stories to a jury who will decide the fate of the accused well, today it was us who bore witness and my instinct told me to tell you what i was seeing my mouth narrated my eyes but my eyes i wish i could unsee it my nose wishes to smell it my heart breaks for that man and his family and my mind what has the same questions you have? who is this man? well, he happened to be someone that we think we saw milling around earlier and throughout the week near the courthouse where we were and tonight, we know a little more police say that he was a conspiracy theorists and while his theories run the gamut, the
Ultimately, he convicted you, what did that feel like in that moment, knowing that you did not commit this crime? knows a nightmare you know, i was like my my worst fear come true i couldn t believe it at first initially because i just couldn t i didn t understand like, how could you bring someone in here and hold them accountable and you don t have any proof that this person is responsible for this and it was just was a nightmare at the time i had two infant children and it s like i m seeing that i m being stripped away from them. i was there sole provider at the time and it was just it was off out and like i couldn t understand like how they reached this verdict when there was like nothing there that actually pointed to me and then i was so much proof that i was not there and that evidence never entered in. frank, how old were they when they when you left? one and two oh my god i
We ve assembled them for you. just come meet with them the attorney didn t do that. and the attorney had an investigator who didn t show up to meetings and it s really crazy because the attorney listed on the witness list, these people. so we knew about the witnesses. he knew about the truth, but he just didn t present it because he didn t take the time to invest instigated to do a defense. and so because that investigation wasn t done, the courts found that this was ineffective assistance of counsel, and so that s why evidence of innocence that was readily available was not presented i mean, this so everyone understands, frank, this revelation and the road to determining that you had ineffective assistance of counsel. we re not talking months. we re not talking before you went to prison, talking longer than a decade years and years and years where you fought to try to prove it in a sense, even becoming your