(upbeat music) - Paper was like gold
in the medieval times. - Oh not tobacco, sugar. - That everything we thought we knew about the world might turn
out to be completely wrong. (dramatic music) - There are so many more innocent people in prison than people realize. - [Inmate] They arrested me for the murder of my best friend. - [Inmate] When I got arrested, I kept on saying I was
innocent, what are you doing? What are you doing? - [Attorney] It's not fair that he had to stand in that courtroom and accept guilt for
something that he didn't do. - [Karen] There's no physical evidence linking him to this crime. - [Attorney] And there was
absolutely no investigation. - [Inmate] Nobody cares that
you did not commit that crime. - [Lewis] No one believed me. - [Dara] He shouldn't have
been in jail for 34 years. - [Attorney] You gotta let him go. That's not him. - You're free to go, thank you very much. (audience clapping) - [Narrator] In the early nineties American criminal defense
attorneys created a network of international associations
called the Innocence Network. - I'm free, man, it's been 30 years. - [Narrator] Their
mission, to fight injustice by exonerating innocent people and helping the justice
system correct its mistakes. - [Attorney] This is a
worldwide human rights movement. - Anybody can be mistakenly identified. And how many times do we have to do this? - I really don't know what
they said to release me. - Today I filed a motion to null pross or dismiss the charges
against Lewis Fogle. - [Reporter] What are you
looking forward to the most? - Getting to know my family. - Until the judge says
you were absolutely free there's always nervousness
that it's going to go wrong. - Then you have to trust
that that's going to go well, but you don't know. - [Narrator] For many convicts who claim to be a victim of
a miscarriage of justice, these attorneys are their last
chance, their last resort. - It felt so good actually having people that believed in my innocence. - [Inmate] I couldn't
do this without them. - [Inmate] I thought I
was gonna die in jail. - [Inmate] Believe that one
day they would come and say, you know, we made a
mistake, we were wrong. - You know, I kept fighting
for my freedom for 34 years. - I would have never
believed this stuff is true. Until you live it. (upbeat music) - Is this the letter that he wrote to us? Oh my God. - Okay. Dear innocence, project, I'm serving life for a homicide and rape that I'm innocent to. - I'm completely innocent of this crime. I wouldn't waste your
time if I wasn't innocent. - This nightmare has been going
on almost 17 years for me. Please help end this injustice. (somber music) - God. - I would be very grateful
if you could help me to get the DNA test ran to
prove that I am innocent. - He's written that to us, you know, and it went from 17 years to 20 years to 25 years to 30 years. - I thank you for your time, he says. That's crazy. - You're free to go, thank you very much. (audience clapping) - [Narrator] Since the early nineties attorneys from the Innocence Network have freed 372 wrongfully
convicted people in the US, thanks to advances made in DNA science. 20 of them were on death row. Together, these former detainees spent 4,563 years in prison
for crimes they did not commit. - Think about how you
would go through this. Would you be able to
survive that experience? - It's the best job in the world. - I think the problem with this job is it never feels like enough. - [Narrator] The reasons behind
these wrongful convictions are often similar. They are mostly eye
witness misidentification. Confessions extracted under duress. Improper forensics. Or false testimonies. This is exactly what
happened to the detainee whose story you will discover today. (upbeat music) - A 15 year old girl had
been raped and murdered. - He wasn't there to hug his children. They just kept asking, where's
daddy, when's he coming home? Is he ever going to come home? - I totally did not
think I was going to cry. Prison is very hard on people. It's very hard on them. - [Narrator] Lewis Jim Fogle claims to be a victim of
a miscarriage of justice. Karen Thompson works for the
Innocence Project in New York with her intern, Dara Gell, a law student. They agreed to defend him. This is their story. (police sirens blaring) Karen Thompson joined
the Innocence Project in New York in 2012. This 43 year old attorney chose the job to defend the rights of
women and the oppressed. Soon after her arrival in the association Karen inherited a case of a client who had been in prison for a
long time, Lewis Jim Fogle. The crime at the center of this case took place in Pennsylvania
on July 30th, 1976. - So in 1976, a young woman, 15 year old girl named Kathy Long was at her friend's house. She left the house and
started walking home and there was a car in her driveway. This 15 year old girl
stopped at the window and then got into the car. And that was the last
time anybody ever saw her. Her body was discovered the next day by a man who was just out
picking blueberries to eat and he found her body
and he called the police and the investigation began. - A 15 year old girl had
been raped and murdered. (dramatic music) It's tragic. It's a devastating story. - It was in the newspaper. And I really didn't pay
much attention to it. - [Narrator] At the time of the crime Jim and Deb were not yet an item. Jim lived in the countryside
with his three brothers and earned his living as a laborer. As Karen discovered in the file at the beginning of the investigation, the police did not mention Jim at all. Indeed, the first witness accounts describing the driver in the car led to a very different suspect, a patient at a mental institution. - Can you find the Lola
Long police report? I'm curious about her
description of the man who was in the car who
comes to their house. The last person to see (bleep)
is the sister of the victim. And she tells the police
exactly who she saw in the car. She gives a very explicit
description of him and his name is Earl Elderkin. Earl Elderkin eventually checks himself into a mental institution. The police go back to him maybe five times over the next five years to
talk to him about the murder. And every time they talked to him he gave them a different story. And in each story he talks
about different people, but in each story he's the only person who is at the scene of the crime in every single one of these instances. So it's a complete
mystery why he was never the only sole suspect in this murder. It's a complete mystery. And Earl Elderkin is dead so we can't actually talk to him anymore. So when I sat down to read
Jim Fogle's trial transcript it was one of those moments
when you do not understand how this person could
ever have been convicted. It's a travesty. - [Narrator] from 1976 to 1981 neither the witnesses questioned nor the leads followed up by the police led to Lewis Jim Fogle. At that time, the 30 year old laborer was quietly building a life. He married Deb and became a father. His name was only linked to the case five years after the crime, following a final visit by
the police to Earl Elderkin. - And in this last interview, when he's in the mental
institution he's put under hypnosis and he says, I saw Lewis Jim Fogle with his brother Dennis Fogle and two other men raped (bleep) and shoot her in the back of the head. And from that moment on the police start to focus on Jim Fogle. - The end of 1980 we got married and in March of 1981, he was arrested. We had two boys and it was pretty hard. Just he was there and then he was gone. - [Narrator] on March
18th, 1981 Lewis Jim Fogle was arrested with three other
men named by Earl Elderkin while under hypnosis at
the mental institution in what seemed like yet
another version of the story. All four were taken into temporary custody while awaiting their trial. The wait lasted 11 months, or 335 days. 335 days of detention that will change the
course of the investigation and seal Jim's fate. - About a quarter of the
way through the trial they dropped the charges against
everybody except Mr. Fogle. And the reason they do that
is because he's the only one who allegedly spoke to
these police informants. while he was in prison. So basically he's
convicted on the testimony of what we call snitches. You know what, we never
did find the tape, did we? - Which tape?
- Of the snitches? - No. I think somebody asked
for it years earlier and said it didn't exist. - Oh, right, okay, right, right, right. As the Innocence Project
over and over and over again we find that when snitch
testimony is involved there's usually a wrongful
conviction somewhere because it's incentivized. If someone says, I'm
going to give you this if you tell me what I want to hear, you're usually going to tell the person what they want to hear. And that exactly what happened for Jim. It's the only evidence that was used to convict him of this
murder, the only evidence. And because of that, he was
sentenced to life in prison. - It was life without
possibility of parole. (dramatic music) My heart just dropped. - [Dara] He shouldn't have been convicted with such terrible evidence. - I felt like I lost him. And I cried, I didn't
know what else to do. 'Cause I knew he didn't do it. I knew it in my heart
that he didn't do it. And no, he wasn't there
to hug his children. I don't know, they just kept asking, where's daddy, where's he coming home? Is he ever going to come home? (somber music) That was the hardest,
that was the hardest. - [Narrator] On September 24th, 1984 Jim was sent to one of Pennsylvania's highest security penitentiaries
and sentenced to life. Locked between walls,
the man from the country, worried he might fall into depression and lacked the strength
to prove his innocence and return to his family. To fight this, the young father
decided to take up painting. Art helped him escape, set him apart from other prisoners, and above all, forced him
to keep his mind sharp. Because to be able to paint in prison one must be resourceful. Jim had to create painting tools out of elements of his daily prison life. And when he ran out of
money, he made his own colors from flowers found during
walks or rationed coffee beans. - I don't know that I could
have been that creative, that's for sure, but. - He was painting artwork that he would give to other prisoners to give as gifts for
Christmas to their families. - It's like the handkerchief,
kind of a prison issue fabric. And he turned it into this entire project that basically became
his lifeline, you know? It's the thing that kept him sane. - I think Jim absolutely survived in prison because of his art. - He sent me a lot of them. I have 'em hanging around my house. - [Narrator] The years passed and Jim didn't just paint in prison. He also devoted much of his
time to studying his case in the hope of proving his innocence and finally being
reunited with his family. He filed several motions for appeal. Every single motion was
rejected by the court. One after the other, year after year. In 2002 he discovered
the Innocence Project and decided to write to them after having exhausted all
other possible legal reviews. By then, he had already
spent 21 years in prison. (calm music) - Is this the letter that
he wrote to us, oh my god. - Dear Innocence Project, I'm serving life for a homicide and rape that I'm innocent to. - My name is Lewis Jim Fogle. I would be very grateful
if you could help me to get the DNA test ran to
prove that I am innocent. - Respectfully, Lewis Jim Vogel. - Respectfully Lewis J. Fogle. - I thank you for your time, he says. - [Narrator] Upon receiving the letter, the Innocence Project agreed
to take on Jim's case. At that time. Karen wasn't yet
working at the association. Her predecessor had been
handling the case for nine years and had been searching
for evidence to be tested. In 2010 when he finally got
access to the medical swabs taken from the victim after the rape, he thought the case was
resolved, so did Jim. Unfortunately the samples were too old. The laboratory found no
biological evidence for analysis. For Jim and his family all seemed lost. He had already spent 30 years in prison. 30 years removed from his family, with whom contact was decreasing. - At that time we weren't
in contact with each other. We had stopped writing. I don't even know why I stopped writing. I mean, I still loved him. I still wanted him to come home. He was turned down for so
many times that I just, I don't know whether I just gave up on it, that he would never come
home, but I always had hope. - This is the letter when he, they just started testing in 2010. Wait, did you say you have the results? - Yeah.
- Can I just peek at those? - [Narrator] In 2013 the
attorney leading the case moved. Karen took it over. With her intern, Dara, they started the
investigation from scratch and called Jim and prison to tell him. - The first time we called Lewis, he sounded like an old man. Prison is very hard on people. It's very hard on them. And when you've been
in prison for 30 years for something that you didn't
do, I think it ages you and I think it takes a
very big emotional toll. - It was scary at first
to speak with Lewis. I that his case wasn't going that well. We didn't have any evidence. We'd had his case for a long
time and nothing was happening so it was hard to say,
I'm going to fight for you and I'm going to be your
new student this year. I hope that I can do something differently - If we don't find anything, he's still going to be in prison and he might be there
for the rest of his life. - [Narrator] When Karen took over the case the Innocence Project had
already been working on it for 11 years without success. They managed to find and
test the medical swabs from the young victim, but no biological evidence was found. Three years after this setback Karen had to dive back into police reports to see whether other
leads should be considered or if the case should
be definitively closed. - Part of that research when we go through the trial transcript, when we go through all
the paperwork we have is to look at what the police collected. And so we go through their
entire investigation as well. And what we found was
the list of everything that they took from her body. There was still evidence
that we hadn't found. So we knew that her
clothes were still around. We knew her underwear were around. The shorts that she'd been
wearing that day were around, and that they'd also taken her fingernails and they'd combed her pubic hairs. And so my immediate thought was, let's go find all of these other things. - My specific mission,
as told to me by Karen, was to try and find any evidence
that I could in the case. Working at the Innocence
Project as a student is a huge responsibility. Because ultimately if we
didn't find evidence this year we were most likely going
to have to close the case. - [Narrator] To find new evidence and to attempt to get Jim
out of prison one last time, Dara focused on the list
she found with Karen in the police report. - I took that property receipt and I called the police station. I just got bounced around from
headquarters to Indiana PSP. I called the wrong corporal, and then eventually I
got just put on the phone with the person who could look
it up at the right moment. And I asked, do you have this inventory? He said, yes, and I said, are there 12 items in this inventory as it says on my property sheet? He said, as far as I know. I said, can you do a
physical search for me? And he said, yeah, and that afternoon he wrote me an email saying, yes, we have, I believe it was nine pieces including the underwear
that you asked for. I'm sorry, I'm getting emotional. It was, I had just started here so it almost, I didn't
know how shocking it was but I knew that this was the
evidence we were looking for and for some reason we couldn't find it so it was incredible. It was incredible, yeah. - I was thrilled, I did
not expect this to at all because I really thought
it would take longer, I thought we'd be really
struggling around it and she just found all of the right people who helped her uncover
all this information. - [Narrator] So new evidence was found, but it still needed to be tested. In March, 2015 Karen sent it to the lab. If these final tests were
negative, the Innocence Project would no longer be able
to help Lewis Jim Fogle. At that time Jim had been
in prison for 34 years. To avoid unnecessary costs, evidence was tested one
piece after another, starting with the victim's underwear. In June, 2015 Karen and Dara
received the first results. - It was inconclusive,
we didn't find anything on the underwear and it was devastating. The underwear was what
we thought would be, you know, the key evidence. We thought that that was going
to be where we found the DNA but we had other items so pretty immediately
after getting the email saying there was no DNA on the underwear, Karen and I said, what else can we test? And Karen said, okay, you know, next let's test the fingernails. The fingernails also didn't have any DNA. And again, we were really
upset, but quickly said, what's the next item to test? And that's when we got
to the pubic combings. - They take the pubic hairs and they basically put
them in a chemical bath and they get everything
off of those pubic hairs. And so what they found first was semen. So they found a sperm head. - Finding sperm at the Innocence Project is finding like a buried treasure. It's pretty gross but that's the Innocence
Project thing, is find sperm. - And then they tested the fluid itself and they got a profile, a male profile, and he did not match that profile. Jim Fogle is excluded from what
we found on the pubic hairs. (triumphant music) - [Narrator] To leave no room for doubt and confirm these first positive results, Karen also sent the victim
shorts for analysis. They confirmed the first results. The sperm was not Jim Fogle's. After 34 years, the amateur painter finally started to
believe that his nightmare would come to an end. - I was so excited to tell
Jim that we'd excluded him and that we could finally
now give people proof that he didn't do it. And I said, Jim, guess
what, you're excluded. And he said, yeah, I know. I mean, that was such a
shocking moment because, of course he knew. He knew he didn't commit this crime. - [Narrator] However, Lewis
Jim Fogle's legal battle was not over yet. On July 29th, 2015, Karen
sent the DNA results to the Indiana County attorney
general in Pennsylvania and asked for the
exoneration and liberation of Lewis Jim Fogle. The attorney general then
reopened the investigation. He had 30 days to find
new incriminating evidence and to decide whether to take
new legal action against Jim or to officially find him not guilty. However, he immediately
agreed that Jim could spend the 30 days awaiting the
final hearing out of prison. The release date was set
for August 13th, 2015, sooner than Karen and Dara had imagined and so they failed to
be present on the day. - I wanted to be at his hearing so badly. I believed I was going to be and then my flight got delayed
and I didn't get to be there. - I was camping in a tent in a very rural part of the country. I didn't really have phone service, you know, I walk around
with my phone like this to get a text message
'cause I knew it was coming. So I would call in, I'd try to figure out what was happening. - She was literally in
the middle of nowhere so she had barely had
like cell phone contact. (calm music) I understand her frustration, sure. Absolutely. - And finally, David, my boss told me, yeah, it's going to happen
tomorrow, he's getting out. So I actually couldn't be
there and that was very sad, but at the same time, I was so overjoyed. - [Narrator] On August 13th, 2015 at 63 and after 34 years of detention, although not yet permanently
freed, Jim was finally outside. (bright music) - And I when heard that he got bail and I knew he was getting out of jail I, again, cried hysterically. I just was so overwhelmed with joy. - Yeah, 13th of August is quite a day. Once I walked out that door that's when the excitement
actually hit me, you know, it happened, it's not just a dream. That was the most magnificent
feeling in the world. - 13th of August was amazing. In the bottom of my heart I always knew that that day would come. And when they walked him,
handcuffs and shackles, orange jumpsuit, I lost it. It was a very happy day, a very happy day. - I'm just glad the
Innocence Project took it and stuck with me all this
time and helped me out. - [Reporter] What are
you going to do tonight? What's the first thing you're going to do? - I would love to get me a steak. (laughs) I haven't had beef in a long, long time. We get soy instead of beef. And I do not like soy. (calm music) - When someone's released from prison after that long a period of time, it's an extraordinary event. It's extraordinary for Lewis, it's extraordinary when
you're there as the lawyer, and it's pretty spectacular
when it actually happens, when the court actually says that the client is going to be released, like that's a huge thing. - He spent almost half
of his life in jail. 34 years, three decades,
it's incomprehensible to me. I haven't been alive for three decades. - You know, I'm 43. I was what nine, when he went in? Think about your life, think about what you've
done in the last 34 years. - [Narrator] Jim and his attorneys knew this freedom was only momentary and could be snatched away. While waiting for his final hearing that would decide on his return
to prison or his freedom, Jim used his 30 days to
rekindle his relationship with his grownup sons and grandchildren, far from the public eye. Away from the hustle and bustle, he also discovered the countryside he had painted for three decades. - At least here I can go out and run around in the woods if I want to. Brings me back to nature
and back to being who I am. I'm a country boy. I was born and raised in the
country, I love the country. I get along better with
animals than I do people. I don't know how to act
around a bunch of people. (calm music) I was afraid I was waking up from a dream. That I was going to wake up in prison. As if all of this was just a dream. - The 30 days wait, it was like, is there another shoe gonna drop? Is he gonna go back? - [Karen] There's always nervousness that it's going to go wrong and that your client is going
to end up back in prison. - There is a fear that
rationality won't win, because he shouldn't have
been tried in the first place, He shouldn't have been
convicted in the first place, and he shouldn't have
been in jail for 34 years with such terrible evidence. And there there's always a possibility that craziness would happen
and he would get retried again. - So now that Jim is out, please don't do anything that could even get you
in on anyone's radar, I don't want you to drink, I don't want you to do
anything except, you know, eat your meals and read
a book and go to bed. Because you don't want
anyone to look at him . and give them a reason
to start anything up. - So for the 30 days the
DA wanted to wait to decide whether he wanted to
retry the case or not, I had to walk on pins and
needles the whole time. 'Cause one mess up or
to put me back in prison and everything I worked
for 34 years would be over. (tense music)
(heartbeat thumping) (phone dialing) - Hello?
- Hi, Lewis, we're downstairs. - Are ya?
- We are. - Okay.
- Okay. All right, we'll see you in a sec. Actually, can we come upstairs? - [Lewis] Oh, if you want to. - [Karen] 'Cause I think we're gonna take some of your pictures. - [Narrator] September 14th, 2015, this time Karen and Dara were able to make the trip with David to be part of the final
stage in Jim's legal battle. They were due in court at 2:30 for the attorney general's final decision. Was Jim going to be sentenced again or definitively going
to be found not guilty? - I am scared to death. - He was really nervous because it was everything
he'd been saying. It was the end of the road maybe. And he'd been so
disappointed so many times. I think Lewis thought, it's been so close to the end for so long, how can it really be the end? - Okay, so let's put these in the car. Do you have another box or do
you want to carry them loose? We are going to put these
paintings in the car and then show them afterwards and hopefully people would
be interested in buying them. So, but we want to show
the world Lewis' talent Right?
- Yeah. Oh, what a day. - All of those pictures
that we put out there were a testament to his incarceration. and his way of surviving that experience and so we want people to see 'em, you know, we want people to witness that, but we want them to buy them. We want them to understand
that this is also how he's going to support himself. Like this is the one skill
that he got to work on that wasn't taken away from him, that he got better at se was in there and that he should be, you know, it would be great for him
to be able to make a living doing this art. - [Narrator] Indeed,
regardless of the result of this final hearing, Jim would never be compensated. Pennsylvania law doesn't allow
for financial compensation of convicts who are victims
of a miscarriage of justice. But before exhibiting his paintings, Jim would have to return to court. One more hour before
his fate was revealed. One hour before knowing
if his battle of 34 years to prove his innocence would pay off. Karen was there to reassure him. - We'll see, by 2:30. You can't sleep? - I had 34 years of teaching
myself not to show emotion. Because emotion in there is weakness. Even saying thank you, I
have a problem with it. 'Cause that's something I
haven't used in a long time. Psychologist, you know, she
said it's gonna take time. - Yeah. You were in for 34 years, you've been out for less than a month. It's going to take a long time. - Yep. - [Karen] I want you to know
that you're not alone, right? So you're in the company
of 330 other people. You're kind of-
- part of the family. - Yeah, I mean, it's not, we wish you weren't part of
this family in some ways, but you're not gonna be the
only one with this experience a there are gonna be
people for you to talk to who know what you went through. And I think, you know, this
story is really humbling. I think, you're hearing what he survived and I don't think a lot of people have that kind of character or disposition to be able to handle this kind of thing and I am humbled by this
man, I'm very humbled and I feel very privileged
to be able to support him. It's like teaching me a lot. You really are, you're teaching me a lot. Waterproof mascara today. (bright music) - [Narrator] It was time for the hearing. Surrounded by his attorneys and his wife, Jim made his way to the court. At this moment nobody knew
if he would emerge free or handcuffed. - Again, until it happens you just don't know that
it's going to happen. up until the very moment
where that document was signed and where the judge said,
you know, this is done and in the United States, we
say, it's done with prejudice, which means you can't revisit it. You can't come back and say,
we're going to try him again. Once that's said, it's over. So to the last minute we
were biting our nails. And then five minutes it was done. in five minutes the judge decided he wasn't gonna be retried, in five minutes the DA agreed. - Today I filed a motion to null pross or dismiss the charges against Lewis Fogle in the case pending against him. As you know, this was from
a 1976 rape and murder that occurred here in Indiana County. Through work with the Innocence Project we were able to determine
that Mr. Fogel's DNA excluded was not present on the victim
at the time of the incident. The judge entered that
order with prejudice, meaning that this case is now over and will be over going into the future with regard to Mr. Fogle's involvement. - I'll tell you what, whenever I came out of that courthouse I had no idea they're going
to stick me right on camera. The thing is I'm stepping out in the world I really don't know much about. After 34 years, everything's changed and I have no idea how
to use the internet, I don't even know how to
use my phone properly yet. - [Reporter] Do you know
what a cell phone is? - I got a cell phone but
using it is another thing. I was scared to death until I got up there and a couple questions was asked. After a few questions and
looking at the people, you know, I was able to ease up. - Having a whole world
witness his innocence, I think that was a really, it was a very powerful
moment I think for all of us. - [Reporter] What are you
looking forward to the most? - Getting to know my family. - Tears of joy. - Put your arm around him, dammit. - Our future together,
don't know yet right now. We're still talking. Hopefully we'll be together to watch our grandchildren
grow up, get married. (calm music) - [Lewis] You like doggy? - Hey doggy.
- Doggy kisses. (family laughing) - That's my sweetheart. (laughs) - There's a lot going
on for him right now, So I'm just trying to be his friend and trying to let him know that I'm there. So he calls me, he has my number. We're still in communication a lot. (Karen laughing) We're going to be here for 15 minutes. His hat's getting in my eye. (laughs) - Both of 'em have become
such a big part in my life. You know, I love 'em both. I having them around,
I love talking to them. Now is to build a life. - What?
- Now is to build a life. - Now to build a life, amen. - I hope Lewis will
always be part of my life, I hope to always know him. This experience of working with him will absolutely help me
be a better advocate, a better lawyer. I will always be grateful to him. - The worst thing is that moment when you have to say goodbye 'cause they had to come back to New York. It's almost heartbreaking. Thank you. - Start it all over, okay? - They became like family. They are great. - They are.
- Yep. - Can I have a kiss?
- Mm-hmm. - If you spoke to Hollywood and said, I have a great movie idea for
you, they wouldn't take it. They would say, there's no
way, this isn't believable. Nobody would accept that this
could ever happen to anybody. And it happened to Jim and
it happened to his family and he missed out on all of his life and watching his kids grow up because of these insane circumstances that you would never, never
think were, you know, plausible. - [Narrator] After three
decades spent in prison, Jim now had to find his
bearings in a new century, a new world. A world that has spoken much
about him since his release. - I didn't think I was this famous. Not this many places. My God. This is beautiful. Boy. I oughta take up a few languages. Sweden. Made it places I didn't know of. Italy. Belgium. - I told him this. Yeah, because I saw, oh my gosh. I saw Ireland, yeah, I saw
all of these countries. - Yeah, it was so exciting
to see it go everywhere. Yeah, it's exciting that
people in France get to know. I love it. - Oh wow, I didn't they used that one there. Heck of a change, ain't it? Never believe that's the same man. Never believe that it's the same man. (calm music) (moves into upbeat music) - Lewis made this for me
as a Christmas present. It's the first client
gift I've ever gotten and I just think it's extraordinary. (upbeat music) - [Phone] Missed calls. - [Lewis] Don't know
how to use this thing. - [Phone] Missed calls. - Yeah, I got it, missed calls. - [Phone] Missed calls. - Gonna tell me that again? - He's picking things up, he's
doing really well, adjusting. - When I got arrested, I kept
on saying I was innocent, what are you doing, what are you doing? - You got to let him go, that's not him. - Kept fighting for my freedom
for 34 years, you know. After so many let downs. - Believe that one day
they would come and say, you know, we made a mistake,
we were w\rong, and let me go. - The thing about Innocence Project is they're more than just attorneys,
they're family and friends because one of the things about them, even after they get us
released and exonerated, they don't just disappear
and go onto the next case. I don't even look at them
as lawyers, you know, I look at them as people that I can call in the middle of the night and you know cry and laugh and that's what makes them different, that's what makes them
stick out, you know.
