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You know, they don t realise how much damage they do. ..toa family. i never dreamed it would be 26 years. i thought i had got over the tears. i guess i hadn t. i met dontae as a duke law student. i had started in the wrongful convictions clinic and, as a part of the clinic, you are assigned a client. when i first met him, he would have already been in prison for 16 years. ....
Justice delayed. people really don t know how going to prison for something you didn t do, a crime you didn t commit, especially for a long, long time. ..what it does to a person. i was accused of killing a white man in a drug deal gone bad. this is a case they re going to be teaching in law school 100 years from now. what could dontae have become? it was a travesty ofjustice. it took 26 years to make it partially right. i was exonerated on august 22nd, 2019. a lot of people think the ultimate goal is just getting exonerated and getting out of prison, ....
..and, you know.been angry ever since about it. you know, i always let her know, if he could get out to be here with you, he would. wanda, wanda, wanda, wanda. yeah, itold her to go on with her life. i had a life sentence for something i didn t do. you know, i had to let her go. i had planned on not ever, you know, being with anyone i was with before. you know, that dontae dead. honestly, that dontae dead. i was not expecting him to come home to me. i always said it, you know, i always told people, like, 0h, he come home, i m not going to let anybody get him, he belongs to me. i m going to get my family now. i m a tell you what really got me when i seen my grandkids, wytham and marnie, that s my family. that s what i always wanted. ....
She just became angry. ..and, you know.been angry ever since about it. you know, i always let her know, if he could get out to be here with you, he would. wanda, wanda, wanda, wanda. yeah, itold her to go on with her life. i had a life sentence for something i didn t do. you know, i had to let her go. i had planned on not ever, you know, being with anyone i was with before. you know, that dontae dead. honestly, that dontae dead. i was not expecting him to come home to me. i always said it, you know, i always told people, like, 0h, he come home, i m not going to let anybody get him, he belongs to me. i m going to get my family now. i m a tell you what really got me when i seen my grandkids, wytham and marnie, that s my family. that s what i always wanted. ....
All right, all right? right here, the police pulled up right here. this exact spot, right here. theyjump out. what s up, man? and they were like, dontae, we ve got a warrant. i said, a warrant for what? he said, murder. i said, murder? man, y all tripping, man. y all cray. i said, i didn t do nothing. like this, slapped them handcuffs on me. that was the last time i was outside. this is where i got locked up at. i remember the first day i pulled up to the prison. then that gate, zshhh boom. then you hear them razor wires shake. ding ding ding ding. i was in there so long, from a teenager to 44 years old. it was like every time i closed my eyes, i see a long tunnel with a little dot, pinprick at the end. and i d be, like, man, ....