1 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:05,799 Speaker 1: M M. 2 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:23,719 Speaker 2: A Wall Street line, shackle change, Oh do some gird 3 00:00:25,879 --> 00:00:32,240 it's calling my name. There is no mercy and it's 4 00:00:32,359 --> 00:00:42,119 been a tentery juice as the huge stream game Wrangle three. 5 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:44,079 Speaker 3: I'm here by. 6 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 2: Byma Dies inside these walls, inside the wild. 7 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,159 Speaker 4: Hadn't went no girl as I'm. 8 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,079 Speaker 3: Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast 9 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,439 one and forty two years in the making, the complete 10 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:42,560 story of America's bloodiest present. I'm Jim Chapman, and today 11 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:46,719 I'm gonna jump right into it and cover with you 12 00:01:46,879 --> 00:01:51,640 the story of Corporal Betty's mothers, who was tragically murdered 13 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:55,920 while working extra duty for the Baton Ridge Police Department 14 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:00,000 at just thirty six years old. And y'all, I remember 15 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:06,400 remember this one distinctly. When this horrific incident occurred, I 16 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,599 was a senior in high school. I was the same 17 00:02:09,719 --> 00:02:15,800 age as Betty's mother's son, war Done, who years later 18 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,400 would play in the NFL and even when the Walter 19 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:23,000 Payton NFL Man of the Year award, he was an 20 00:02:23,159 --> 00:02:28,479 absolute stud on the field. And I knew firsthand because 21 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:32,520 I played against wark Done when he was at Catholic 22 00:02:32,759 --> 00:02:35,560 High School and I was at Broadmoor High School in 23 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,800 Baton Rouge. Now, I also had a lot of friends 24 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:42,319 who were mutual friends with Wark done I grew up 25 00:02:42,319 --> 00:02:46,319 in a neighborhood where many of my friends attended Catholic 26 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:49,599 High School in Baton Rouge, and all of my friends 27 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,599 would describe Warwick as as good a person off the 28 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,719 field as he was on the field, and that speaks 29 00:02:56,879 --> 00:02:59,960 to the way he was raised in The full credit 30 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:04,039 there goes to his mother, Betty Smothers. So let me 31 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,840 tell you just a little bit about how amazing this 32 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:12,560 woman was at the time of her murder. Betty'smothers had 33 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,759 six children and these children ranged from the ages of 34 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,639 nine to the ages of eighteen. Just shy of eighteen, 35 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,199 war Dunbe was her oldest. He was weeks from being 36 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,919 eighteen years old. She had been a police officer for 37 00:03:29,039 --> 00:03:33,360 fourteen years at this point with the Baton Ridge Police Department, 38 00:03:33,479 --> 00:03:36,479 and she was a single mother. She was doing all 39 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:41,719 of this alone. Think about that her son, Warwick, as 40 00:03:41,719 --> 00:03:45,000 I mentioned, he attended Catholic High School in Baton Ridge, 41 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:50,479 which is a very respected private high school where to 42 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,400 send your kids there typically you had to be someone 43 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:58,840 of some pretty affluent means. This was an expensive school, 44 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,960 and this was where Warick's athletic ability would play a 45 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:09,000 key role. Warwick was even well known before high school. 46 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,919 His athletic ability was very well known in the Baton 47 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,520 Ridge area, and by the time he got to high 48 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,879 school Catholic HI, they were more than happy to allow 49 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,199 Wark to attend the school to wish him free in 50 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,720 exchange for him playing football for the Catholic High Bears. 51 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,639 So think of it as a high school version of 52 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,240 a scholarship. In Warick, I'm sure was one of very 53 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:40,439 few to attend Catholic HI without his parents even owning 54 00:04:40,439 --> 00:04:44,360 a home of their own in Betty's mother's case, which 55 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,360 this fact would come into play a little bit later 56 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,079 on in Warck's life. As you can imagine, with six kids, 57 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,160 single mother, and you're a police officer, you have to 58 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,759 work a lot of overtime to make ends meet, and 59 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:03,040 Corporal Smothers she would do as much off duty work 60 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,000 as she could possibly get. So I'm gonna take you 61 00:05:07,199 --> 00:05:12,279 back to January seventh of nineteen ninety three and Corporal 62 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,279 Smothers is working a detail this night for a local 63 00:05:16,439 --> 00:05:21,120 grocery store. The grocery store closed and the manager escorted 64 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,040 by Corporal Smothers, and they were both in her marked 65 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,000 police car. They'd go to the night deposit of the 66 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,360 bank to make the deposit. This was at twelve fifteen 67 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:36,800 am on January seventh, nineteen ninety three. As soon as 68 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,480 they pull up, a gunman appeared out of the dark 69 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:45,759 shadows of the bank and fires several shots, hitting both 70 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:50,759 the female grocery store manager as well as Corporal Betty Smothers. 71 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:56,160 Corporal Smothers slumps over the steering wheel, but somehow, I 72 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,120 would say it was an absolute miracle. The store man, 73 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:05,600 who has eleven bullet wounds, she manages to put the 74 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:10,399 police car into gear and steer it away from the bank, 75 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:16,000 which this totally foiled the robbery. As the guman they 76 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,079 did not pursue that vehicle. Corporal Smothers was shot five times, 77 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:26,079 killing her. The grocery store manager was shot, as I said, 78 00:06:26,199 --> 00:06:29,439 eleven times. Many of the bullets hit Smothers and then 79 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,480 would hit her too. Her name was Kim and Lee. 80 00:06:34,319 --> 00:06:38,839 She was injured, but she survived the attack just unbelievably. 81 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,240 Police they arrived at the scene and it was determined 82 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,079 from the spent shell casings. It was determined that twelve 83 00:06:46,639 --> 00:06:50,920 rounds were fired. One hand gun fired seven, the other 84 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,199 handgun fired five, and they knew they were two different 85 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:59,319 handguns because they were two different calibers. Now earlier, when 86 00:06:59,319 --> 00:07:03,279 I described scene, I used the term a gunman, and 87 00:07:03,319 --> 00:07:07,399 that was because the surviving victim, miss Lee, she only 88 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:12,639 saw one gunman. However, you have two different weapons here, 89 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,040 and police by this point they were pretty certain at 90 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:21,199 least two people were involved in this shooting. So the 91 00:07:21,199 --> 00:07:24,959 whole community in Baton Rouge, they were shocked by this 92 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:30,399 outrage by this. Corporal Smothers was beloved by everyone at 93 00:07:30,439 --> 00:07:35,279 BRPD and everyone who knew her outside of it. Her 94 00:07:35,319 --> 00:07:38,879 some work was extremely well known, one of the top 95 00:07:38,959 --> 00:07:42,040 recruits in the country at this point. He was a 96 00:07:42,079 --> 00:07:47,279 senior in high school, and this became national news quickly, 97 00:07:47,879 --> 00:07:51,079 and right off the bat Seemingly everyone wanted to help 98 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,040 these kids. A memorial fund was set up the very 99 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,040 next day, and even the governor of the state of 100 00:07:58,079 --> 00:08:02,279 Louisiana at that time, Edwin Edwards, he kicked in five 101 00:08:02,319 --> 00:08:06,399 thousand dollars to the already one thousand dollars crime stoppers 102 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,040 reward for information that would lead to the capture of 103 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,959 those responsible. And this was a fourteen year veteran of 104 00:08:14,079 --> 00:08:18,360 BRPD and the first officer to die in the line 105 00:08:18,399 --> 00:08:21,839 of duty in Baton Rouge in five years. Police wanted 106 00:08:21,879 --> 00:08:26,480 answers and the community wanted answers now the day after 107 00:08:26,519 --> 00:08:30,079 the shooting, and this is absolutely amazing to me considering 108 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,120 her injuries, but the survivor, Kim and Lee, she undergoes 109 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,120 hypnosis at the hospital and she was able to provide 110 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,120 police with enough detail for them to create a composite 111 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:45,440 sketch of the suspect that she did see. Remember she 112 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:49,519 only saw one suspect. Then just a day after that, 113 00:08:50,519 --> 00:08:55,600 a confidential informant he tells a detective Denicola that someone 114 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,879 by the name of Kevin Brumfield had killed Corporal Smothers 115 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,960 and that another guy by the name of Eddie Paul 116 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,000 had information about it. So police they pick up Eddie 117 00:09:07,039 --> 00:09:10,840 Paul and they bring him to the station for questioning 118 00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:15,639 and he tells police that his cousin West Paul, as 119 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,840 well as Kevin Bromfield and someone that he only knew 120 00:09:18,919 --> 00:09:22,399 is aj Or Ray j had committed the crime. So 121 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:26,559 based off of this information, police they get arrest warrants 122 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,799 for both Kevin Bromfield and West Paul, and they are arrested. 123 00:09:30,879 --> 00:09:34,480 And this is on January eleventh of nineteen ninety three, 124 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,039 which is just four days after the shooting in the 125 00:09:38,159 --> 00:09:43,080 murder of Corporal Smothers. Now, police are also looking through 126 00:09:43,159 --> 00:09:46,519 arrest records and rap sheets to determine if they have 127 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,960 ever arrested someone with the street name of ray J 128 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:54,440 or DJ ORAJ or anything like that to figure out 129 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,120 who this guy is. And they come across a man 130 00:09:57,639 --> 00:10:00,919 by the name of d Ron or Darren and Brooks, 131 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,679 and they show a photo of the guy to Eddie 132 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,279 Paul and they say, is this a guy you were 133 00:10:06,279 --> 00:10:09,879 calling ray J? And he says, yeah, that's the guy. 134 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:14,759 So police get a warrant for Brooks. However, he's released 135 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:19,679 from questioning rather quickly when it's discovered that he definitely 136 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,320 could not have done this or been involved in it, 137 00:10:22,639 --> 00:10:25,759 because at the time this murder went down, he was 138 00:10:25,799 --> 00:10:30,240 in police custody. So they then focused their questioning on 139 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,440 west Paul. Now when he was arrested, as soon as 140 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:39,200 police arrive at his door, his comment was, quote I 141 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,679 knew y'all was coming. He also said, quote I didn't 142 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,559 shoot no police officer, and this was before anyone had 143 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:50,240 told him what they were there for. Also, they got 144 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:54,320 from his residence a camouflage jacket that Kim and Lee, 145 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,840 the survivor, had said the shooter was wearing the night 146 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,480 of the shooting. Now, in the meantime, Kevin Bromfield's questioning 147 00:11:03,879 --> 00:11:07,279 was taking off, and initially, of course, he denies any 148 00:11:07,639 --> 00:11:13,679 involvement in anything, but under several hours of intense questioning, 149 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:19,600 he confesses in a taped statement. So, according to his confession, 150 00:11:20,279 --> 00:11:23,080 he said that he and his friend who he described 151 00:11:23,159 --> 00:11:26,919 as Smoky which this was later determined to be Wes Paul, 152 00:11:27,159 --> 00:11:30,559 and a guy by the name of Henry Broadway where 153 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,519 driving around. They were looking to what he referred to 154 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,840 as quote hit a hustle, which he described as riding 155 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:41,200 around looking for someone to rob. He said they were 156 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:45,879 drinking and they somehow knew about the grocery store making 157 00:11:45,919 --> 00:11:49,879 these late night bank deposits, So they went to that 158 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,600 bank and they hid in the bushes until Corporal Smothers 159 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,600 and miss Lee showed up to make the deposits. That night, 160 00:11:59,159 --> 00:12:02,080 he said that he and Broadway jumped out of the 161 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:07,000 bushes and Corporal Smothers saw them and that he panicked 162 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,120 and he just started shooting, which he said made Broadway 163 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:15,440 panic and he starts shooting. He said during this time 164 00:12:15,639 --> 00:12:19,039 Wes Paul was around the corner in the car to 165 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,639 serve as the getaway driver. And he said that after 166 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:26,639 the shooting occurred, they jumped back in the car freaking 167 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:31,360 out obviously, and he said they actually passed police officers 168 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,399 heading to the scene as they were making their getaway. 169 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:39,360 So at this point in the investigation you have Bromfield 170 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:45,000 admitting to killing Corporal Smothers, as well as implicating Henry 171 00:12:45,159 --> 00:12:49,480 Broadway in the shooting and the killing and implicating Wes 172 00:12:49,639 --> 00:12:54,080 Paul as the getaway driver. Now and the questioning of 173 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:58,080 these three a lot was determined. First a little over 174 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,120 twenty four hours prior to it was determined that Kevin 175 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:06,519 Bromfield and Henry Broadway they go to a psychic in 176 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,399 the Baton Rouge area to obtain a tarrort card reading. 177 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,919 And it was during this reading that Bromfield, who according 178 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,559 to the psychic, was carrying a gun, said he planned 179 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,080 to commit a robbery and he wanted to know the 180 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,039 best day to do so, and with the cards tell 181 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,960 him that. It also came out that the day after 182 00:13:29,039 --> 00:13:34,240 the murder, Bromfield told Eddie Paul, quote, I just killed 183 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:38,360 a some bitch. Eddie Paul also said he heard Bromfield 184 00:13:38,399 --> 00:13:42,360 tell Broadway the murder was a waste of time because 185 00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:45,399 they didn't get any money out of it. Also coming 186 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:50,440 out was that Broadway admitted to another robbery prior to 187 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:56,960 that robbery in Clinton, Louisiana. So on February fourteenth, nineteen 188 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,440 ninety three, twenty year old Kevin Bromfield, twenty two year 189 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:06,320 old Henry Broadway in twenty year old West Paul, they 190 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,440 enter please of not guilty in court, which of course 191 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:15,080 means nothing. They don't have anything to lose, and in 192 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:19,039 almost every case you'll ever hear about, they plead not 193 00:14:19,159 --> 00:14:22,399 guilty right out of the gate, and the prosecutor in 194 00:14:22,399 --> 00:14:25,519 this case a legend, if you will, in the Baton 195 00:14:25,559 --> 00:14:30,200 Ridge area, prim Burns. She announced she would be seeking 196 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:35,120 the death penalty for all three of these individuals in 197 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:40,240 this case. Now. Shortly after this, it was also discovered 198 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:45,039 that the informant who called in the police this was 199 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:50,159 none other than Attie Paul himself. When the following article 200 00:14:50,279 --> 00:14:53,799 ran in a Baton Ridge newspaper over a month after 201 00:14:53,879 --> 00:14:58,639 those pleas were entered, and here's what the advocate had 202 00:14:58,679 --> 00:15:02,080 to say. It starts Eddie. Paul just wanted to do 203 00:15:02,279 --> 00:15:05,440 what was right when he called police on January tenth, 204 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,159 gave them a tip that led to arrest in the 205 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,720 death of Baton Ridge Police captain Corporal betty'smothers. But doing 206 00:15:12,759 --> 00:15:16,399 the right thing landed him in an isolation cell and 207 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:20,720 cost him his personal belongings, some disability pay and peace 208 00:15:20,759 --> 00:15:23,559 of mind. Quote. I never had so many headaches in 209 00:15:23,639 --> 00:15:26,840 all my life, Paul said. I don't know what's going on. 210 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,720 They made my life a living hell. I know that 211 00:15:30,279 --> 00:15:33,960 since calling police. Paul, who is fifty, was arrested as 212 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,200 a material witness and spent five weeks in a cell 213 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,720 at Parish Prison, booked as a principal to first murder 214 00:15:40,879 --> 00:15:45,399 in smother's death. He was released February eighteenth. While he 215 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,080 was in prison, someone broke into his apartment. Quote, they 216 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:53,240 took everything I had, Paul said. They left my thirteen 217 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,879 year old daughter there by herself. Paul's daughter moved in 218 00:15:57,039 --> 00:16:00,840 with her mother. Paul, a disabled McCann, moved to a 219 00:16:00,879 --> 00:16:04,720 new apartment while he was in jail. The government discontinued 220 00:16:04,799 --> 00:16:09,240 his disability payments, but his sense restored those. He said, quote, 221 00:16:09,279 --> 00:16:12,159 I don't sleep well at night, Paul said, I'm back 222 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,799 on medicine. I take nerve pills. Sometimes it looks like 223 00:16:15,879 --> 00:16:19,559 they don't even work. Paul's tip led police to three 224 00:16:19,639 --> 00:16:22,720 men who were indicted in February for first degree murder. 225 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,440 The thirty six year old officer was in bushed inner 226 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,879 police car on January seventh and shot repeatedly. She was 227 00:16:28,919 --> 00:16:32,320 accompanying a grocery store manager to make a bank deposit. 228 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:38,399 The manager was severely injured. Paul tip police that Kevin Bromfield, twenty, 229 00:16:38,519 --> 00:16:41,120 told Paul Hugh shot someone. Quote he didn't say who 230 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:44,159 he shot, Paul said Monday, as he waited to testify 231 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:48,200 in pre trial hearings for Bromfield Henry Broadway in West 232 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,799 Paul his cousin three days later. Bromfield had a gun 233 00:16:51,919 --> 00:16:55,879 and children were playing nearby. Paul said, quote, Kevin was 234 00:16:55,919 --> 00:16:58,600 hanging out around my house with a gun. That's why 235 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,519 I called the police on him. Police investigating the complaint 236 00:17:02,559 --> 00:17:05,759 did not find Bromfield, but brought Paul in for questioning. 237 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:10,599 Bromfield was later accused of shooting Smothers, Broadway of shooting 238 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:14,319 her passenger, and west Paul of driving the getaway car. 239 00:17:14,799 --> 00:17:17,240 Paul said he knew nothing of the case other than 240 00:17:17,279 --> 00:17:20,440 Bromfield's comments quote, they took me to jail for all 241 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,160 that from the day they locked me up. I didn't 242 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,200 know what was going on. And that was an article 243 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:30,079 by The Advocate released March thirty first, nineteen ninety three. 244 00:17:30,319 --> 00:17:33,759 So it takes a couple of years before this case 245 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,559 goes to trial, and in the meantime, one of those charges, 246 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,799 wes Paul, the getaway driver, he cuts a deal with prosecutors. 247 00:17:42,839 --> 00:17:46,559 And that's not surprising. By the way, the prosecution was 248 00:17:46,599 --> 00:17:50,599 going to seek the death penalty against wes Paul, and 249 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,279 it's probably not something they were really going to do 250 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:57,000 for the getaway driver. Be real hard to get a 251 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:01,359 death penalty to stick against a getaway driver who didn't 252 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:06,799 actually kill anybody. But prim Burn's amazing prosecutor and likely 253 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,160 was using this to scare Westpaul into cutting a deal, 254 00:18:11,559 --> 00:18:14,519 which he did, and that deal stated that in exchange 255 00:18:14,559 --> 00:18:18,279 for his testimony against Bromfield and Broadway, he would get 256 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,079 twenty five years and not life. In present and certainly 257 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:26,119 not the death penalty. So in July of nineteen ninety five, 258 00:18:26,559 --> 00:18:30,400 a little over two years after the murder of Corporal 259 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,480 Smothers and the attempted murder of Miss Lee, Kevin Bromfield 260 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,599 and Henry Broadway they go to trial. Now, during this trial, 261 00:18:39,079 --> 00:18:42,440 some key evidence comes out outside of the fact that 262 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,200 these guys had confessed to several people about the murder, 263 00:18:46,319 --> 00:18:50,079 and most notably was the fact that the shellcasings found 264 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:54,680 that the scenes matched guns that were found with Bromfield 265 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,319 and Broadway. Judge Ralph Tyson, he presided over the proceedings 266 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:02,920 in two hundred the perspective jurors were actually narrowed down 267 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,559 to twelve for this trial. In the end, in early 268 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:13,160 July of nineteen ninety five, both Bromfield and Broadway are 269 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,160 convicted of first degree murder and both get sentenced to 270 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:23,279 death via lethal injection. Now, like the vast majority of stories, 271 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,920 I tell you, here's where the story really gets started. 272 00:19:27,279 --> 00:19:32,119 Of course, especially with death penalty cases, you expect most 273 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:37,000 of the convicted are going to exhaust their appeals completely. 274 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,440 Maybe they'll get lucky, maybe a technicality is going to 275 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:45,480 be found somewhere, whatever, So in Bromfield's case, his appeals 276 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,160 really stood on one thing, and that was his mental 277 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:54,200 capacity was consistently measured between seventy and seventy five, which 278 00:19:54,240 --> 00:20:01,279 would indicate a mental disability and cognitive impairment. Which here 279 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:06,640 is my opinion on this. You commit murder, this murder 280 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,640 right here, and then you take steps to hide the 281 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:15,039 fact that you murdered someone. That proves to me you 282 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:20,960 knew murdering this amazing lady and damn near murdering another. 283 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:25,359 You knew that was wrong, but you did it anyway. 284 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,319 You weren't so mentally incapacitated, you didn't know right from wrong, 285 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,039 otherwise you wouldn't have been trying to hide it after 286 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,039 the fact. So while all these appeals are going on 287 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,440 and they're moving forward, so is the family of Corporal 288 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:46,119 Smothers Warwick. Despite all the odds, I mean, this guy 289 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,440 had to become a mama and a daddy overnight. In 290 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,279 addition to going to college, he went on to become 291 00:20:53,319 --> 00:20:57,920 a major football star in college, playing for Florida State, 292 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,799 much to my chagrin because I'm an LSU Tiger guy. 293 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:06,279 In nineteen ninety seven, he was drafted as the twelfth 294 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,640 overall pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and he goes 295 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,039 on to play in the NFL for twelve seasons. He 296 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:18,480 made two Pro Bowls, He won the Walter Payton Mann 297 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,799 of the Year Award, and all kinds of other awards. 298 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:26,920 Off the field, he was equally outstanding. He established the 299 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:32,079 Quote Home for the Holidays program, which assists single parents 300 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:37,319 with down payments and fully furnished homes. Which I can't 301 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,640 think of a more amazing way to honor your single 302 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,960 mother and everything that she did for her kids than 303 00:21:47,039 --> 00:21:52,119 by assisting other single parents with down payments for homes 304 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:57,640 because his mother could never afford a house, and it 305 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,440 just gives me chills thinking about it. He's helped over 306 00:22:01,599 --> 00:22:07,720 three hundred families through that program. Now. In twenty sixteen, 307 00:22:08,319 --> 00:22:15,440 something I consider shocking occurred when Kevin Bromfield is resentenced 308 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:21,039 from death row to life in prison after a court 309 00:22:21,079 --> 00:22:28,279 apparently disagreed with me and decided that his mental capacity 310 00:22:28,799 --> 00:22:32,359 was such that he couldn't get the death penalty. Warick 311 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,200 Dunn himself was against this. They felt he was too 312 00:22:36,279 --> 00:22:40,480 mentally disabled to be sentenced to death. Then in twenty 313 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:45,240 twenty three, it was Henry Bromway's turn to try and 314 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:49,440 get out of death row, and in a clemency hearing, 315 00:22:50,319 --> 00:22:53,640 famed lawyer Barry Sheck. You may remember him from the 316 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,720 OJ Simpson trial. He is also the founder of the 317 00:22:57,759 --> 00:23:03,240 Innocence Project, which is now a national nonprofit that fights 318 00:23:03,319 --> 00:23:06,119 to get people off death road that are innocent of crimes. 319 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,599 And I have respect for that. And he has had 320 00:23:08,839 --> 00:23:13,359 several high profile cases where people were exonerated by DNA 321 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,440 and it was through pushing for their innocence through that program. 322 00:23:17,519 --> 00:23:20,079 So I got nothing but love for that program. I 323 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,319 think if someone is innocent, the last thing you obviously 324 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,640 want to do is put him to death. And they've 325 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,400 done some great things there, but here they're not fighting 326 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,640 for someone that's innocent. And he spoke, of course, in 327 00:23:31,759 --> 00:23:35,440 defense of Broadway. But guess what Ward done? Was there? 328 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,960 Ward done? Sister? Was there? Many people were there and 329 00:23:39,039 --> 00:23:42,079 Ward Done. He was having none of this. And you 330 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,720 have absolutely got to hear this in its entirety. This 331 00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:52,599 is the clip from the hearing for Henry Broadway when 332 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,559 he was seeking clemency, and you're gonna hear Ward Done 333 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,480 speaking to the Louisiana Pardon Board. You're gonna hear his sister, 334 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:05,160 you're gonna hear the former chief of police b RPDS 335 00:24:05,279 --> 00:24:08,920 great fairies, and you're going to hear the decision of 336 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:14,599 the board after they make their comments. So here's that club. 337 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 5: First, we'd like to hear from the victims' family, mister Dunn. 338 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:20,880 Could we hear from you, sir? 339 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,279 Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am. You know this is. 340 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,839 Speaker 6: You know, it's heartbreaking because I mean, I understand individuals 341 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,079 go to prison. We're only convicted. I do understand that 342 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:42,039 in this situation, that's not the case. And it's really disrespectful, 343 00:24:42,079 --> 00:24:44,599 and I mean, I'm over here getting emotional listening to 344 00:24:46,039 --> 00:24:49,559 you know, nonsense, not even understanding that if someone is 345 00:24:49,599 --> 00:24:53,839 shot and killed your family members they come to your 346 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,880 front door, you're not going to have that. You're not 347 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,000 going to have that perspective. And then, if you think 348 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:01,880 about it, we have police officers that are supposed to 349 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:07,839 be protecting us, serving and protecting, and all of a sudden, 350 00:25:07,839 --> 00:25:10,000 now we got a guy who's been on death road 351 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,039 for thirty years. He's able to get up every day, 352 00:25:14,079 --> 00:25:18,680 eat three meals, call his family and what my kids, 353 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,799 my brothers and sisters, kids, you know, grandkids, won't be 354 00:25:23,839 --> 00:25:27,599 able to meet their grandmother. They don't have that experience of, 355 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,400 you know, the values she could have added to their life. 356 00:25:31,039 --> 00:25:33,920 And then everyone wants to talk about you know because 357 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:39,079 I play professional football and you know I help families. Well, 358 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,160 I'm not able to do the things that I do 359 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,359 for other individuals because my mom is not here. She 360 00:25:45,599 --> 00:25:51,039 sacrificed her life to protect people. And to listen to 361 00:25:51,079 --> 00:25:59,640 this nonsense, This is nonsense about an individual who has 362 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:06,680 been convicted, convicted, not innocent. And also well I heard 363 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,599 in the past, well he put a gun to another 364 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,160 lady's head in it jammed. No one talks about that. 365 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,559 I mean, this is it's just it's just frustrating because people, 366 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,000 people are sacrificing our lives, and the police officers, you know, 367 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,240 I you know, we let someone off death row lest 368 00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:34,039 some clemency this or that any individual in this country 369 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,480 will go around thinking they could just kill and shoot 370 00:26:36,519 --> 00:26:39,000 people and their consequences is that I'm just going to 371 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,000 spend the rest of my life in prison and I 372 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:51,680 need three meals a day, spending taxpayers dolls. Please, it's 373 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:56,319 just disrespectful and I mean, I'm I pose you know, 374 00:26:57,559 --> 00:27:01,559 these two individuals, you know everyone who who's opposing that, 375 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,720 you know he needs clemency, that he needs to be 376 00:27:05,799 --> 00:27:10,279 off death row or I just I oppose that. And 377 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,720 you know, I know my sister. I don't know if 378 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,640 she's able to talk, but she can also express herself 379 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,799 in a way that I mean, my younger sister didn't 380 00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:24,319 have her mother nine years old. You think she could 381 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:28,119 have been a better woman today than she is now. Yes, 382 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:33,559 my sister could have. So you guys, don't understand anything 383 00:27:34,039 --> 00:27:37,240 and go out defend people. I don't want innocent people 384 00:27:37,319 --> 00:27:40,119 to die lose their life. I'm all about that, but 385 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:46,279 in this case, don't don't commit me and my family 386 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,960 who suffered all these years because at eighteen years old, 387 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,519 I had to become a father and I took care 388 00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:55,839 of my brother's sister because that's what my mom trained 389 00:27:55,839 --> 00:27:58,680 me to do over the years. Because we couldn't afford 390 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,440 a house, we could could afford this, and that we 391 00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:03,319 were surviving. 392 00:28:06,519 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 5: Thank you, mister done. That's summers. Mothers or would you 393 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,759 like to say a few words, Hey, you're you're still 394 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:20,039 on me. 395 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,799 Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I'm in the car trying to uh drive 396 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,279 out me right you right? 397 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 5: So I apologize, Okay, is there something like to know? 398 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,079 Speaker 7: Just to piggyback off of my brother, I did write 399 00:28:35,079 --> 00:28:39,039 a speech and just wanted to make you guys aware. 400 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,200 As we reflect on this thirty year journey without our mother, 401 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,599 we're a constant reminded that we have a hold in 402 00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:47,640 our horse that would never be filled. The pain won't stop. 403 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,119 In some memories fad, but the constant flashback of January seventh, 404 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,240 nineteen ninety three remains the worst part of it all. 405 00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:57,880 I remember like it was yesterday. Each year getting harder 406 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,960 and harder to process. We all have grown up with 407 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,400 kids of our own, which makes it this part of 408 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,440 life most difficult to bear. People often ask, how do 409 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,440 you hear it from something like this? I replied, you 410 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,880 never heal, You always be broken. You always wondered what 411 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,480 life could have been if she was still here, But 412 00:29:15,559 --> 00:29:18,119 instead we constantly try to explain to our kids who 413 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,240 our mother was. Have you ever imagined trying to explain 414 00:29:21,279 --> 00:29:24,960 to a child what a cemetery looks like, why she's 415 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,480 not there, not here with us, or when they asked 416 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,160 to see their grandmother, you have to take them to 417 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,319 a burier, apply a tombstone that can't speak words of 418 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,559 comfort back or give them reassurance that everything is okay. 419 00:29:37,799 --> 00:29:40,000 Have you ever opened a piece of mail and thought 420 00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:42,720 you'd seen a ghost? Asking yourself, why does God keep 421 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,000 punishing us? We all received a letter from this attorney 422 00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:49,720 office back in April, not knowing one of us or not. 423 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,119 One of us told the other one that we have 424 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,839 received this letter because it was going to open a 425 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:58,079 door that we all try to keep close. Within thirty years. 426 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,480 Within thirty years, we have never had anyone from the 427 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,680 defendant side check up on us. But what amazed us 428 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,160 as soon as Governor Edwards announced it was against he 429 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,880 was against the death penalty. The office engaged at the 430 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,599 defense victim out of specialists to inform us of the 431 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,079 new development in the case. We started trying to place 432 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,319 pieces together. We made phone calls to figure out what 433 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,759 was going on, and that's when we were informed of 434 00:30:21,839 --> 00:30:26,559 Broomfield me I'm sorry Broadway petition to appeal once again. 435 00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:29,480 How can you ever hear from something if it's a 436 00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:32,839 revolving door. Our family has been through so much and 437 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,319 other in another. We're just devastating to the families. This 438 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,680 not only affects us, but our kids who now tried 439 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,720 to protest what's going on, learning about the unspoken, unfilled 440 00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:45,279 to truth of our mother's death that we tried to 441 00:30:45,279 --> 00:30:48,440 protect them from. They never knew the impact of our 442 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:54,319 minds have had on us. They just thought, I'm sorry, 443 00:30:54,559 --> 00:30:59,039 I'm sorry, somebody called. They just start trying to place 444 00:30:59,079 --> 00:31:01,640 pieces together. Can found polity figure out what's going on? 445 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,839 I'm sorry. Our family has been through through so much 446 00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:08,319 in another just depth stating to our families does not 447 00:31:08,359 --> 00:31:10,720 only affects us, but we're trying to process what's going on, 448 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:15,960 learning the unspoken truth of our mother's death. They just 449 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,839 started trying to notice the trends and behave you when 450 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,519 it comes to certain things in milestones. As I close, 451 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,599 I want to understand. I want you guys to understand 452 00:31:22,599 --> 00:31:24,480 that hurt, the pain and love that I can't get back. 453 00:31:24,759 --> 00:31:27,319 Imagine yourself at fourteen, being woken up to your news 454 00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:29,359 that your mother was shot and kill not because she 455 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,880 was doing anything wrong, but because she was serving and 456 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,079 protecting the citizen of back Rudge. Now you and your 457 00:31:35,079 --> 00:31:37,279 sibling has to figure out like who's gonna provide for you, 458 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,359 where you're gonna live, Who's gonna be or we're gonna 459 00:31:39,359 --> 00:31:41,519 be able to stay together all why our prepreen to 460 00:31:41,559 --> 00:31:44,279 bury your only parents you have? But we accept the 461 00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:47,119 fact that mister Broadway continues to breathe life, get three 462 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,000 meals a day, continues to have conversation and see his family, 463 00:31:50,119 --> 00:31:53,160 a privilege that we can't experience and have an experience 464 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,279 for the last thirty years. But we have to talk 465 00:31:55,319 --> 00:31:57,000 to the tunes songs that don't speak back. 466 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,319 Speaker 5: We will be about I'm sorry to interrupt. Can you 467 00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:02,440 wrap it up for us please? 468 00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am, I'm finishing up when we would be allowed to, 469 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,279 when we would be allowed to feel like the system 470 00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:10,200 isn't broken and here's our Christ. All we want is 471 00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:13,039 justice that's overdue. And I don't have the luxury to 472 00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:16,200 know what the true mother loves feel like. I'm opposed 473 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:21,119 to this a petition for appeal for clearancy. This this 474 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,000 is something that we deal with all the time, and 475 00:32:23,079 --> 00:32:26,480 we just u on my behalf of my sister and brothers. 476 00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:29,079 We're opposed to this clemsy petition. 477 00:32:29,599 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, thank you so much for taking the time 478 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,039 to speak with us today. 479 00:32:35,519 --> 00:32:36,039 Speaker 8: Its sleep. 480 00:32:42,559 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 5: Thank you's for going to read this opportunity to steal. 481 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,839 I have been silent for almost thirty one years. To 482 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,519 be exact, and not to take anyway thing away from Betty. 483 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,640 God rest your soul. But I lived in the shadows. 484 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,519 When this tragedy it's talked about, I'm not even spoken of. 485 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,599 I have, however, been living this every single day of 486 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,000 my life. January seventh will be thirty one years ago 487 00:33:08,079 --> 00:33:12,279 this happened. This tragic event took everything from me. I 488 00:33:12,319 --> 00:33:15,359 lived with surviv I lived with survivors guilt, and at 489 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,279 times it's more than I can bear. 490 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 8: Any past I've lived in fear. 491 00:33:20,359 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 5: I would look out my window and feel so hopeless, 492 00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:24,599 sad and depressed. 493 00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 8: NICKI saw the glass half full. 494 00:33:28,319 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 9: Not long after everything happened, I found myself locked up 495 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,279 in a mental hospital for three and a half weeks. 496 00:33:34,599 --> 00:33:36,839 I tried to heal and move long with my life, 497 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,759 but it felt impossible. I saw a therapist for over 498 00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:42,960 three years. I couldn't understand why this happened to me, 499 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,000 How could anyone do this? As time passed, I learned 500 00:33:48,039 --> 00:33:50,640 to pick myself up and tried to move forward. Every 501 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,160 day was a challenge. I lived every day of my 502 00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:56,319 life with PTSD. I will for the rest of my 503 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,960 days on earth. My coworkers, my friends, my family, my neighbor. 504 00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:01,319 Speaker 8: No never to. 505 00:34:01,319 --> 00:34:04,559 Speaker 5: Walk upon me without my full attention, because it sends 506 00:34:04,559 --> 00:34:10,159 an into a dark place of fear and anxiousness. Please 507 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:14,119 understand by you doing this brings pain into all of 508 00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:17,039 our lives, who will never give back what was taken 509 00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:21,119 from us. I ask, and I beg of you, please 510 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,480 do not do this. One life was lost and several 511 00:34:24,519 --> 00:34:28,079 lives were changed forever. By reducing the sentence from death 512 00:34:28,119 --> 00:34:32,280 to life imprisonment, you were diminishing the atrocity of what 513 00:34:32,519 --> 00:34:36,519 was done to us. Betty died, our children's lives changed forever. 514 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,639 I live with this my whole life. Our lives mean. 515 00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:41,199 Speaker 8: More than this. 516 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,519 Speaker 5: And I will say, without any certainty, I know who 517 00:34:46,599 --> 00:34:49,760 I identified, and I stand tall and. 518 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,159 Speaker 8: One hundred percent certain. 519 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 5: I know the man that I saw that night and 520 00:34:53,519 --> 00:34:57,079 that raining night was here Broadway without any doubt in 521 00:34:57,119 --> 00:34:59,840 my mind. And I beg of you, Please don't do this. 522 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:05,039 You've lived in pain for so long. Thank you, Thank you, 523 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,239 mister Daniels. 524 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, I sam for you. 525 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:26,599 Speaker 10: In oppositition named tomorrow Day representative Adage Police Department's times 526 00:35:26,639 --> 00:35:27,559 A chiefs Fat. 527 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,199 Speaker 11: I think this is one of those events that you 528 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:32,719 grew up. 529 00:35:32,599 --> 00:35:36,559 Speaker 4: In what do you work when you heard and it occurred. 530 00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:38,400 Speaker 8: I also. 531 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,760 Speaker 10: Not a police officer at jack time, but over the 532 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,159 last twenty five plus years than our agency, I get 533 00:35:49,159 --> 00:35:54,000 to watch and see that the time is still had 534 00:35:54,039 --> 00:35:56,800 to heal. This is one of the still one of 535 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,599 the most common topics stussed in our police. 536 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,199 Speaker 8: Department, and we're still assisting. 537 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 12: A lot of our officers were there or we were 538 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:13,039 friends who actually responded to the scene that night because. 539 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 10: They're still in the hell process. We're very great opposition 540 00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:20,280 of this request. We asked that you peace deny it 541 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,920 and again we pray for the family, law enforcement as 542 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:26,400 well as personally. 543 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:33,440 Speaker 5: Thank you, sir, mister mister Ferris H. 544 00:36:34,559 --> 00:36:45,519 Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm fair glad. I'm Brett ferris Will, Chief to 545 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:46,320 ninth grade. 546 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:54,840 Speaker 11: And just a moment to rest the shares comments, every 547 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,960 confidences siggestion was gone. 548 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,199 Speaker 14: Thanks to spect. 549 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,559 Speaker 13: Here side and. 550 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,599 Speaker 1: All the way is what it is because kid states 551 00:37:10,079 --> 00:37:15,039 the true lead is very strongly. 552 00:37:15,079 --> 00:37:21,599 Speaker 15: Any chillative of police officers is one of the most 553 00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:22,960 famous crimes. 554 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:29,920 Speaker 16: That can be committed because it is an attack on civilization. 555 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,800 It's the attack on the people. Team keep keep civilization. 556 00:37:35,639 --> 00:37:43,639 That the nearest civilization will be its many killings of 557 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,119 police officers. 558 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,800 Speaker 15: Or what I would call them popular somebody who's newly 559 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:57,800 arranged or maybe a police officer responds to the investing issue. 560 00:37:58,199 --> 00:38:02,039 By the investig issue, where emotions are at their peak, 561 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,159 he or she shot and kill. 562 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,039 Speaker 8: This wasn't the end. 563 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,679 Speaker 17: This was three people. 564 00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:16,320 Speaker 18: Driving to set up and on the bank and Gilts 565 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:22,559 family and try to kill them successibly one unsuccessful, say 566 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,239 kill two people to commit an arm mode. 567 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:27,880 Speaker 13: It's about as bad as it gets. 568 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:29,199 Speaker 1: The way of. 569 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:37,800 Speaker 11: Kill him remeditated, replanning and tragically executed. 570 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:47,320 Speaker 19: Quite quite see, I cannot speak with the authenticipate of 571 00:38:47,519 --> 00:38:48,960 work or summer. 572 00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:56,880 Speaker 15: But let me take keep back. So I sat in 573 00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,360 my vetter today. I have to kill him a revery 574 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,039 unteen unity three Tom and he and I went to 575 00:39:04,159 --> 00:39:11,000 be very my engage both in the buildings. The old 576 00:39:11,079 --> 00:39:14,559 man singing a chair on the right Olympic child and 577 00:39:14,679 --> 00:39:22,360 get us laugh struck and said and company the child, well, 578 00:39:24,119 --> 00:39:27,719 it said, I kissed. It's the child said you can 579 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,239 on the back. I've been a tough mission. 580 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:31,920 Speaker 8: That, of course is important. 581 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:41,559 Speaker 11: He has been incredibly successful, even being successful man high school, 582 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:51,480 college and front the Star running back Bounce as philanthropists. 583 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,760 Speaker 13: Often he has accommis to the lots. 584 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:02,840 Speaker 1: But what he does not have never it's his buildings. 585 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:10,719 Give his mother house procurred old day to be with her. 586 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,440 She passes away from the age of being. 587 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:16,840 Speaker 4: Never happened. 588 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:19,039 Speaker 1: Broadway. 589 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:25,239 Speaker 20: Two of the people pride and ambush, steal some money 590 00:40:26,119 --> 00:40:29,880 and to kill people seemed to be killed two people 591 00:40:31,039 --> 00:40:33,960 I find January nineteen ninety. 592 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:37,559 Speaker 1: They succeeded that. 593 00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:37,960 Speaker 14: You bet. 594 00:40:38,039 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 8: It's about like almost see. 595 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:50,000 Speaker 17: Broadway has been through proud, It's been through feels all 596 00:40:50,039 --> 00:40:55,119 the way up from the certain vision I think, and 597 00:40:55,679 --> 00:40:59,239 how before that process has been that eviction best and firm. 598 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:05,119 Speaker 1: I have no reason, no reason to supports. 599 00:41:04,119 --> 00:41:08,800 Speaker 21: A check's attention that this was a bad investigation for 600 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:14,320 a bad team that I constructed in chief of. 601 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,920 Speaker 22: Jacknives don vote just had to be done out absolutely right. 602 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,280 This was a feeling of resee officer, the most sensation 603 00:41:23,519 --> 00:41:28,920 around that happened the batterie since January nine, seventeen and 604 00:41:31,199 --> 00:41:37,800 had to be done right. And it's totally irresponsible, as. 605 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:38,800 Speaker 8: Some chief rejectives. 606 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:45,159 Speaker 1: Three days later it was as an out of time. 607 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,880 Speaker 23: Yes about a check, Uh, you'd been out a whole time. 608 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,960 Super basket advised like a road now in Chicago? Was 609 00:41:54,000 --> 00:42:00,760 that go home and gets to sleep for folic part 610 00:42:01,159 --> 00:42:07,440 in war. So for based fandom strong appetitions, there's. 611 00:42:10,199 --> 00:42:15,280 Speaker 5: Thank you, so right, mister Molimus Barbara, all turnt everything else, 612 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,440 good warning warnings, all the checks. 613 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,239 Speaker 21: Uh you know, I just. 614 00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:35,199 Speaker 24: I listened to all these statistics from these generations and 615 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,000 say I just need to step it, reponstrate it right 616 00:42:39,079 --> 00:42:42,800 now that when we have an offender the foinder post invasion, 617 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,320 we in federal court and the judge turns that there 618 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,719 is a degree of intellectual visibility that we mean that 619 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,920 person cannot be executed and we entered into a contract 620 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,320 for life and that person's into the rest. 621 00:42:55,119 --> 00:42:55,639 Speaker 8: Of his life. 622 00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,880 Speaker 25: In general population in Angola, that is not an exoneration. 623 00:43:00,559 --> 00:43:05,800 And it is extremely effensive that these anti death penalties zealous. 624 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,960 They have the right to their opinion. Disagree with it, 625 00:43:11,199 --> 00:43:14,360 they have the right to their opinion, but don't misrepresent 626 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,760 the statistics. And hear no mention of the cases where 627 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:23,079 additional DNA testing is ordered and it in fact further 628 00:43:23,519 --> 00:43:28,639 confirms the victims I've written this identification of the rapists 629 00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:29,639 one day I had just. 630 00:43:29,679 --> 00:43:31,519 Speaker 8: A few years ago and meets back of cherish. 631 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,039 Speaker 25: So yes, it's real easy to focus on the case 632 00:43:35,039 --> 00:43:39,599 since DNA and make it exonerated people and we can 633 00:43:39,679 --> 00:43:44,880 throw out names. But let's not talk anymore about those cases. 634 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,920 Let's talk about the fact that Kim and Me, by 635 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,199 the grace of God, was here to speak to you 636 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:57,400 this morning. Let's talk about the fact that, as retired 637 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:03,880 Chief Berry said, civilisation is completely disrupted and someone decides 638 00:44:04,039 --> 00:44:08,440 to kill a law enforcement officer, someone who takes their 639 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,920 life to their hands every day. This was not a 640 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,519 domestic violence situation. We have unfortunately lost law enforcement in our. 641 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:17,239 Speaker 8: Communicates to that. 642 00:44:18,159 --> 00:44:21,599 Speaker 25: This is a man who plotted with his whovivot to 643 00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,559 commit this arm probbery. 644 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,599 Speaker 8: This is a man who. 645 00:44:28,519 --> 00:44:33,280 Speaker 25: During his time at Angola, he filed complaints because his 646 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,519 sex novel wasn't delivered timely, or he didn't know the 647 00:44:37,639 --> 00:44:38,840 method of execution. 648 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,000 Speaker 8: He waited to start taking classes. I think living in 649 00:44:42,079 --> 00:44:44,639 Balance just started in twenty twenty three. 650 00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:49,559 Speaker 25: This is a man who testified in this defense at 651 00:44:49,559 --> 00:44:53,440 a trial and didn't just say I am innocent. 652 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,239 Speaker 8: He alleged that Kevin Lee was him on this, that 653 00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:56,639 this was. 654 00:44:56,679 --> 00:45:02,719 Speaker 25: An inside job. It doesn't get much more offensive than that. 655 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:09,840 As mister Lampert said, we sincerely appreciated having the opportunity 656 00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,039 to speak to you at this phase of the process. 657 00:45:13,159 --> 00:45:18,840 It is unprecedented and we thank you for that. This 658 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:25,960 individual is not intellectually disabled. There are still post combition 659 00:45:26,559 --> 00:45:34,000 relief proceedings pending as we speak in federal This, ladies 660 00:45:34,039 --> 00:45:36,920 and gentlemen, I respectfully submit to you, is not. 661 00:45:37,559 --> 00:45:44,239 Speaker 8: The forum to litigate this claim of innocence. The United States. 662 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,320 Speaker 25: Supreme Court deny exert in this case. It is now 663 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:52,199 post conviction relief proceedings. Let that be litigated. There is 664 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:56,920 not a depth for it in this case. Henry Aureed, 665 00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:01,079 whoever you pronounce its first name Broadway is not condemned. 666 00:46:03,199 --> 00:46:10,199 Speaker 8: They are proclaiming innocence. They obviously. 667 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:19,960 Speaker 25: Are seeking release into our population, not general population at Angola. 668 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,800 Speaker 8: That man wants to be walking the streets. 669 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:31,719 Speaker 25: With you, Me, Myron Daniels, Day May's Clarence mclarno, retired 670 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:36,880 Chief Fairies hill or Moore, Kiman Lee and God forbidding 671 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,840 the rest of the Smothers family or or summer the 672 00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:50,719 rest of them. Let this work itself out in federal court. 673 00:46:51,159 --> 00:46:55,039 This conviction has been upheld. There have been evidentiary hearings 674 00:46:55,159 --> 00:46:58,719 and district court. I believe there were five separate hearings 675 00:46:59,079 --> 00:47:03,199 days in front of the Honorable Ralph Tyson thanking someone 676 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:08,679 to the federal for to grant let me senioring for 677 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,480 this man would just be one step further. And we 678 00:47:12,599 --> 00:47:16,039 all know he will not be satisfied in general opulation. 679 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:26,760 Speaker 8: He once out on behalf of the family, half of one. Yes, 680 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:27,800 at least not. 681 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:28,639 Speaker 11: Needs the best. 682 00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:31,280 Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you. 683 00:47:33,519 --> 00:47:40,239 Speaker 5: Smart did you want family? It's all good on more 684 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:40,679 than so? 685 00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:42,280 Speaker 26: What for. 686 00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:49,639 Speaker 27: Year and Jonny Jacksons charges have been around and you 687 00:47:49,679 --> 00:47:51,800 know all the other general so we respect this year 688 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,880 and you know talk and turns. Marbella, I understand your 689 00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,199 books from why you do what you're doing on have 690 00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,199 you think you are pat them? 691 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,199 Speaker 8: And this case is a little beneath, a little different. 692 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,239 Speaker 27: I only wanted to stick up the manner in which 693 00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,519 these folks would notify of what was going to happen, 694 00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:15,480 and that it is really offensive. They received the letter 695 00:48:15,519 --> 00:48:19,440 in the mail from a law office representing the defendant. 696 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,639 In that letter, it said that we have hired a 697 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,239 special victims council for you. They don't work for us, 698 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,400 they work for you. Ring my letter and please call 699 00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,519 my office and get you in touch with you're a 700 00:48:31,599 --> 00:48:32,679 victim representative. 701 00:48:33,199 --> 00:48:36,320 Speaker 8: When they got that letter, warren't done called me and said, 702 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,039 look in the hell this going on? 703 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,199 Speaker 27: We obviously had no idea, and on that day all 704 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,079 of these fishers were filed in mass at one time, 705 00:48:46,199 --> 00:48:49,360 obviously something I'd been in plans for a very long time, 706 00:48:50,119 --> 00:48:51,719 and no notice was given. 707 00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,599 Speaker 5: To us all the day that letter. 708 00:48:54,519 --> 00:48:57,000 Speaker 27: And I can tell you that over in years the 709 00:48:57,119 --> 00:49:02,320 number of times that I've called mister on sometimes in answers. 710 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:06,480 Speaker 8: Sometimes it takes time because he wants to know what's happening. 711 00:49:06,599 --> 00:49:09,519 Speaker 27: That I could I could see the face, I can 712 00:49:09,599 --> 00:49:12,679 hear it in this this this is show me you 713 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,760 know this family and all the other families that will 714 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,920 see THEE and a'mother picture. Guys in such a difficult position, 715 00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,960 that a tough job to be. We work respectfully. Buys 716 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,360 the more specifics than. 717 00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:36,880 Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you. There's no other comments to be made, 718 00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,599 so I think there to them. I'm start with missus Jackson. 719 00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,840 Speaker 28: First, I'd like to plank here and want today. 720 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:48,519 Speaker 11: Yeah. 721 00:49:53,639 --> 00:49:59,519 Speaker 28: For me, one thing is really important from me is 722 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,119 consistency and how I did things as a judge and 723 00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:08,119 tried to be They've been handed in every case that 724 00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,079 I have because it's important. 725 00:50:10,519 --> 00:50:12,559 Speaker 5: I think that goes a long way to. 726 00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:18,960 Speaker 28: Ensuring justice as well as confidence in the system. With 727 00:50:19,119 --> 00:50:24,880 that being said, this war set certain guidelines for consideration 728 00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:34,480 of onaments the application mister Broadway, and his application needs 729 00:50:34,559 --> 00:50:39,760 social requirements just as any other applicant would, and granting 730 00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:40,639 a hearing is. 731 00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:42,800 Speaker 8: Not insurance in any way. 732 00:50:44,159 --> 00:50:47,320 Speaker 28: Believe it's just a qut a process in place, and 733 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,480 I believe in a process in twice you should follow 734 00:50:50,599 --> 00:50:56,679 that process. Another thing that concerns me in this case 735 00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,440 is that there were three people involved in the stere 736 00:51:02,639 --> 00:51:08,320 all three of them equally as culpable, every single one 737 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:14,800 of them. And yet Kevin Romphield, who is clearly acknowledged 738 00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:16,480 as being the person. 739 00:51:16,119 --> 00:51:20,360 Speaker 5: Who actually killed Officer's mothers I had. 740 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,760 Speaker 8: His will not ever be executed. 741 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:29,320 Speaker 28: There's a claim of intellectual disabilities, but as I read 742 00:51:29,559 --> 00:51:33,920 the police reports time and time, his name came up 743 00:51:34,599 --> 00:51:40,159 as the maid actor, the mastermind, and yet he is 744 00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:48,800 not facing executions all equally as culpable led to attempt 745 00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:54,239 on robbery receiving a twenty five year sentence. The only 746 00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,679 person facing execution is hum be wrong. 747 00:52:01,639 --> 00:52:04,880 Speaker 5: I will tell you that trouble that troubles me. 748 00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:06,519 Speaker 8: Wow. 749 00:52:07,159 --> 00:52:12,360 Speaker 28: And so, because he makes the requirements for hearing, and 750 00:52:12,519 --> 00:52:17,519 because of my concern about the inconsistency of the outpout 751 00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,719 in these stations, my. 752 00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:25,559 Speaker 5: Role would be to grant a hearing. Thank you, missus Jackson, 753 00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,039 mister rushed, Thank. 754 00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:28,639 Speaker 4: You, Madam Trevor. 755 00:52:34,559 --> 00:52:37,360 Speaker 11: A lot of the information controls me also. 756 00:52:39,199 --> 00:52:41,519 Speaker 1: But and. 757 00:52:43,599 --> 00:52:48,119 Speaker 26: Louisiana Cool, I was going to. 758 00:52:50,079 --> 00:52:51,079 Speaker 5: Section five. 759 00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:53,039 Speaker 4: Eight. 760 00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:59,760 Speaker 26: You know eight reasons why I could deny an application, 761 00:53:04,039 --> 00:53:06,000 and I'm just going to mention a couple of those 762 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,280 nature the serious nature of their gregious nature of the crime, 763 00:53:15,159 --> 00:53:21,880 and is no more henny his crime than the murder 764 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:28,039 of a police officer, even if that person is not 765 00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:33,960 a record responsible for he participated in a felony that 766 00:53:34,199 --> 00:53:37,800 result in the death of a police officer and a 767 00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:43,239 seriously woman warning of an assistant manager of a superlogist 768 00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:54,559 or in the progress of doing their job. The second 769 00:53:54,639 --> 00:53:59,400 reason that I'm going to use is his civil vision 770 00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:03,760 in history. Mister Broadway has been a supervision on cheap 771 00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:11,039 DIFTI occasions. Both of those occasions he was terminated unsatisfactory 772 00:54:11,679 --> 00:54:17,360 simply because he had other fellainies all miss demeanor convictions, 773 00:54:21,599 --> 00:54:25,639 and knowing I would I know after this ultimous lee, 774 00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:36,920 the express opposition in the victim's family, mister Dunn and 775 00:54:37,079 --> 00:54:43,599 his sister Summer, the adamate opposition from me Louisiana State 776 00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:48,760 Troopers Association and the Turney General of the State of Louisiana, 777 00:54:50,199 --> 00:54:54,800 bad News law Enforcement and the d a's office. And 778 00:54:55,559 --> 00:55:00,880 he's bat Newish, who is admirally opposed to hearing this 779 00:55:01,559 --> 00:55:09,719 based upon to Coma that it could it would inflict 780 00:55:11,199 --> 00:55:16,719 on the viacan's family. I have no other charge then 781 00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:24,000 to deny and reject this application based on information. All right, 782 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:25,480 I'm true. 783 00:55:25,639 --> 00:55:29,519 Speaker 8: Thank you, mister Osha, Thank you about it. Gentlemen. 784 00:55:30,519 --> 00:55:34,239 Speaker 14: I would like to thank everybody for being here, certainly 785 00:55:35,679 --> 00:55:39,760 the victims in this case, the victims stamping. As mister 786 00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,639 Moore pointed out, I've got a lot of friends involved 787 00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:47,719 in this case. This is an extremely difficult case. This 788 00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,840 is an administrative hearing to determine if this inmate meets 789 00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:57,280 eligibility requirements for hearing. At this hearing, we have allowed 790 00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:02,000 public comments comments those in and those who are opposed 791 00:56:02,039 --> 00:56:06,679 to a recommendation from hearing. As a member of this 792 00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,320 Pardon Board, I think it's important to note that every 793 00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:14,039 sector of the criminal justice system has its own obligations 794 00:56:14,119 --> 00:56:20,679 and responsibilities. Law enforcement has their responsibilities and their appligations. 795 00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,280 I can tell you by fifty years in the criminal 796 00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:29,719 justice system, I have the utmost respectful. Prosecutors have their 797 00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:34,599 obligations and responsibilities. I respect them. I was a prosecutor, 798 00:56:34,639 --> 00:56:37,840 and I believe that I hope that I honorably carried 799 00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:42,159 out those responsibilities. I respect the defense lawyers for the 800 00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,079 job that they do. I was a defense lawyer. I 801 00:56:45,159 --> 00:56:50,519 hope that I honorable character. Judges have their responsibility in 802 00:56:50,639 --> 00:56:54,400 this system. I was a judge. Hope that I'm honorable character. 803 00:56:55,599 --> 00:57:01,559 Legislators also have their obligations and responsibility, and the Pardon 804 00:57:01,679 --> 00:57:07,559 Board as its obligations and responsibilities as well. And there 805 00:57:07,599 --> 00:57:11,639 are difference, And I hope when this is all said 806 00:57:11,679 --> 00:57:13,760 and done, and I'm offered the word that I can 807 00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:19,199 honestly say honorably carried out. But I don't be my obligation. 808 00:57:21,039 --> 00:57:21,800 Speaker 6: On the part of board. 809 00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:25,480 Speaker 14: Our responsibilities, duties, and obligations are to consider all of 810 00:57:25,559 --> 00:57:30,880 the circumstances and factors involved. We do not retry cases. 811 00:57:31,679 --> 00:57:33,599 Speaker 1: We do not find fault in. 812 00:57:33,599 --> 00:57:38,360 Speaker 14: The prosecution, jurors, or the course. We do look at 813 00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,639 the facts of the crime. We certainly look at the 814 00:57:41,679 --> 00:57:46,400 effects upon the victims and their families. Clearly, the pain 815 00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:53,360 the grief suffering if they have ended is unimagined. While 816 00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:57,360 considering all of these factors, our primary duty and responsibility 817 00:57:57,519 --> 00:58:01,280 is to look at the inmate today. Who was he 818 00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:06,840 when he committed this horrible crime nearly thirty one years ago, How, 819 00:58:07,079 --> 00:58:10,320 if in any way, has he changed in the last 820 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:17,400 thirty years of incarceration. Who is he today? I think 821 00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:19,960 it's important to point out that we are not being 822 00:58:20,159 --> 00:58:24,199 asked to release this inmate. We are being asked to 823 00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:29,440 consider granting this inmate an opportunity to have a hearing 824 00:58:30,639 --> 00:58:34,280 to determine it he merits a recommendation from this board 825 00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:38,320 to the God to change his sentence from death to 826 00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:39,559 life with them rule. 827 00:58:40,639 --> 00:58:42,079 Speaker 11: This is what this hearing has been. 828 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:47,599 Speaker 14: After reviewing the entire recD, including public comments, the comments 829 00:58:47,639 --> 00:58:50,119 of those in favor, and the comments of those approach 830 00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:55,039 after nearly thirty one years, Sir, he is classified as 831 00:58:55,119 --> 00:58:59,880 a Lewis. He's got a good disciplinary record, nine write ups, 832 00:59:02,079 --> 00:59:07,159 it has a good overall institution. My vote is that 833 00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:12,079 this indate does meet the eligibility. I vote to brand 834 00:59:12,239 --> 00:59:14,840 the here, ma'am Allen. 835 00:59:15,119 --> 00:59:21,280 Speaker 29: Mister okay, A lot of things said this morning. First off, 836 00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:23,599 I want to thank every want for showing up today. 837 00:59:24,719 --> 00:59:27,639 Speaker 4: Uh, you know, it is hard. I'm sorry that the. 838 00:59:27,719 --> 00:59:31,199 Speaker 29: Dunk family has to keep reliving this every time something 839 00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:35,559 changes in our laws and every time they try to 840 00:59:35,719 --> 00:59:37,440 change the way things are looked at. 841 00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,840 Speaker 4: But you know, there is a process that we look at. 842 00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:49,079 This is a capital murder, a capital murder of a 843 00:59:49,199 --> 00:59:52,639 police officer, which theres no way they can say didn't 844 00:59:52,679 --> 00:59:55,079 know she was a police officer, she was in her unit, 845 00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,280 Miss Lee. They meant to kill you, there no out 846 01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:03,719 my mind. They meant to kill you also, And so 847 01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:08,480 I'll look at that process. A capital murder deserves more. 848 01:00:11,199 --> 01:00:14,360 Speaker 30: Looking at and less and you should have to do 849 01:00:14,719 --> 01:00:18,840 more to be eligible for relief in an a capital 850 01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:23,880 murder case. And so that my problem and my vote get. 851 01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:30,360 Speaker 5: Is to the not thank you, mister Crean. I have reviewed. 852 01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:32,840 You know, this process was a little different than what 853 01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,280 we usually do through administrative review. We had a lot 854 01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:39,079 more information to look at than we usually do. After 855 01:00:39,239 --> 01:00:45,400 considering all that, I noted that mister Broadway's case was affirmed. 856 01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,199 As has been mentioned by the Supreme Court, his sentencing 857 01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:51,320 conviction was affirmed over twenty four years ago in nineteen 858 01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:57,159 ninety nine. He has no depth. He does have posting 859 01:00:57,159 --> 01:01:02,119 adiction hanging in the Froneral Court up and after listening 860 01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:06,679 to Miss Lee and mister Dunn and the smother's family, 861 01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:11,000 I cannot vote to move this application forward to a 862 01:01:11,119 --> 01:01:14,719 hearing and put these people through basgain. So my vote 863 01:01:14,719 --> 01:01:17,679 today is to deny the application for a clemency hearing. 864 01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:22,320 Mister Broadways received two favorable votes to move forward. He's 865 01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:25,360 received three votes to deny his applications to move forward. 866 01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:28,800 So today his application for clendency hearing is denied. 867 01:01:29,239 --> 01:01:34,719 Speaker 3: So there you have it, denied. I love it. I 868 01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,599 think that's the right decision. And I'll tell you what, 869 01:01:38,119 --> 01:01:39,639 I don't know if you were as upset as I 870 01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,280 was when one of those Parole board members said, oh 871 01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,039 well there's you know, the other guy got off and 872 01:01:45,239 --> 01:01:48,960 he I understand got off because of his mental capacity, 873 01:01:49,039 --> 01:01:52,559 and maybe your mental capacity is not such. But there's 874 01:01:52,599 --> 01:01:55,920 so many and I'm paraphrasing here, twisting turns to this 875 01:01:56,159 --> 01:02:02,840 case that you should also get off of death row. 876 01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:08,440 What is wrong with people? I'm sorry, that's shocking to me. 877 01:02:08,599 --> 01:02:11,119 Where is that lady's heart? And that was a female, 878 01:02:11,559 --> 01:02:14,079 she knows what it's like. I'm assuming she was maybe 879 01:02:14,159 --> 01:02:17,320 a mother. If she was, you know what it's like 880 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:24,360 to be a mother, And you still fight for this 881 01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:32,639 guy that killed someone and gravely injured another. Horrible but 882 01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:36,480 there you have it. Clemency denied in Henry Broadway, to 883 01:02:36,639 --> 01:02:41,639 this day remains on death Row. Thank you so much 884 01:02:41,719 --> 01:02:45,079 for listening. 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I walked straight line. 889 01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:27,800 Speaker 2: Shackle change, Oh weesome, girdie, it's calling my name. 890 01:03:29,639 --> 01:03:30,559 Speaker 26: There is no. 891 01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:37,760 Speaker 2: Mercy and it's been a tentery juice as the huge 892 01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:41,280 stream game wrangled the three. 893 01:03:43,239 --> 01:03:44,119 Speaker 26: I'm here be. 894 01:03:46,559 --> 01:03:48,280 Speaker 15: B I'm here to die. 895 01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:54,800 Speaker 2: Inside these walls, inside the wild. 896 01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:58,760 Speaker 3: Hadn't went no girl. 897 01:04:00,159 --> 01:04:00,400 Speaker 16: Time. 898 01:04:00,559 --> 01:04:14,960 Speaker 2: No, it's abody angle, ohbody angle.