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Kevin Strickland will finally walk free after being imprisoned for the last 43 years for a crime he did not commit.

To me its murder, im sorry. >> trey gowdy, your thoughts? >> im torn between 99% of me that could care less about what whoopi goldberg thinks about the elements of murder and what a jury of 12 data, and how much politics relates to everything in our culture. i spent almost two decades in the justice system and while imperfect, it gets it right more than television commentators or cohosts on the view or media. the only 12 people in the country who listened to every single witness and examined eve...

This cloud had been rectified over me. i felt like i had gotten my dad out of prison. riding a wave, a huge wave riding up that i had to get on. this wave just came up in emotions. i cant give you the right words to say how deep and how pleased i was, just to hear the judge say, "innocent." after 72 years, to hear that word attached to my fathers name. >> how -- >> it was just -- >> you know, your father wasnt -- and you had a special relationship with him, carol. you were 11 when he was paroled...

That this is a situation marching towards catastrophe and we have been in this country for the last week or so and we have been seeing this on the faces of the youngest and most innocent of victims. this is my report. at the food distribution centre in south—east kabul, the hungry wait. this is a nation on the brink of starvation. and for aid agencies, its a race against time. emotions begin to run high. nafisa has arrived with her disabled son, pleading for help. the world food programme says...

Presume that he is guilty until proven innocent and after they kill him, then the white men are presumed innocent and allowed to go home and sleep in their beds at night after they killed an unarmed black man. and so we have to continue to say that we cant have two systems of justice in america, one for white america and another for the rest of us. it has to be equal justice for every citizen in america. >> thats the only way this system will work. youre right. ben crump, thank you so much for b...

To paint that picture that this was an unwarranted, unprovoked attack on an innocent and unarmed african american. the defense is trying to go out of their way by creating a history, a pattern of behavior, as they would say, by ahmaud arbery, that he was sort of seen breaking the law a number of times in the past and there was a group of individuals trying to protect their neighborhood. those are the two narratives, katy, were seeing here on what could be the final day of this trial, katy. >> ch...

Citizens arrest and get away with it. thats the audacity. when people use the metaphor of lynching it is not a metaphor. this is the structure of years passed. one of the expectations that went with lynching is that the formal legal system would allow for it. law enforcement would look away. one could claim im defending myself and you can think prejudice is about black people being an aggressor and persuade jurors and there is an issue. kyle rittenhouse crying we associate him with an innocent a...

Because there is still a smidge of justice left in America outside of Washington, D.C., and any federal courtroom, Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen won't be spending the rest of his life behind [...]

Some felt almost ill. >> sitting through the ruling almost killed me. i felt oh my god, were losing. oh my god, were winning, oh my god for losing. >> until, the judge finally said the words. >> this evidence meets all the requirements for this court to grant the request of relief by the family. >> a way to just fell off my shoulders. finally, thank you. thank you. >> everybody was hugging, it was just the joy is seen. >> you would think, looking at this, that they had just been declared innocen...

We were there to back them up. and we just wanted to be there for them. >> all crowded their whole courtroom of judge lawrence talon, who will decide if the new evidence merited a new trial. >> all right, want to bring them up? >> finally, tommy and re-highers filed into court. the brothers who from day one insisted they were innocent, whose family never stopped believing in them, looking like just what they were. survivors of a quarter century in prison. >> it was pins and needles. i mean, it w...