Given a fair chance. Im a dead man, breathing right now. But there is hope. I would have never thought i was going to prison. Let alone to death row. Itll be 21 years here in the next 30 days or so. Ive been here longer than i was ever even alive free. I wrote a poem about that, actually. What i miss. Snatching that catch. Hitting that three as the crowd goes wild. What i miss the most, making another smile. It hurts when you cant grant that to your mom in a while. To be the foundation of her struggles, daily adding to the pile. What i miss. My mother, she holds on to a lot of things. Anything thats in the house from the time that julius got placed in the prison. Its like she feel like if she get rid of something, thats gonna get rid of him. I mean, my mother has truly been traumatized. Most people dont have to live with the thought of, wow, my son could be murdered for something they didnt do. It hurts. And as long as i dont have to talk about it or think about it im okay. The joneses say their son and former star athlete has always been a kind and caring person, ever since he was a young kid. 19yearold Julius Darius jones. The primary charge, murder in the first. It was just like a nightmare, man. Never wouldve thought anything like that would have happened. I didnt think he was a killer. I thought he did not choose the company he kept very well, but i dont think he killed paul howell. He killed a totally innocent person, put three other lives at risk, so it was a crime that richly deserves the Death Penalty. The jury found the 21yearold guilty of murder and sentenced him to die. We believe in the system, but the system, sometimes it doesnt work. Let me pull up the transcript here. My name is amanda bass and im one of the lawyers for julius jones. Dale baich is cocounsel along with me. We were appointed to julius case in 2016. Julius is at the very last stage before execution. His appeals are over. In any criminal case, after the appeal process ends, the prisoner can ask the federal court to review their conviction and sentence. So, this is consistent with early accounts. Okay. And in the process of reviewing julius case, we were astounded. There was just so much evidence pointing away from julius as the perpetrator of this crime. Does that make sense . Our goal is to get julius a new trial by showing the courts that his original trial was conducted unfairly. It was in the middle of summer, 1999. I had just turned 19. I was excited to go back to college so i could play ball. Wednesday, july the 28th, i was at my parents house hanging out with my brother and my sister. I was waiting on my friend to come get me. It was just an ordinary night. I really didnt have any idea how my life could change. 911. My sons been shot, out in the front yard. Hes got no pulse. Where was he shot at . I dont know, i was in bed, the kids came running in. Hes laying out in the driveway. Okay. Do you know who did it, sir . No. He just drove up with his kids and they shot him. Who did . I dont know. Get an ambulance. Okay. Ive already got help on the way, sir, okay . I was given a call by dispatch that thered been a homicide at the howell residence and was told to go there and assist. Paul howell and his sister and pauls children were going to buy School Supplies for the Upcoming School year. And then on their way back, they stopped to get ice cream. He pulled into his parents driveway, which is where he and the girls were living at the time. His sister and children were inside the car. They got out, and the suspect got in the suburban and drove off. There were two shell casings found at the scene and the victims sister was the only eyewitness. Megan tobey described the shooter as a young, black man wearing a red bandanna, a white shirt, and a stocking cap or a skullcap. She was not able to identify the shooters face because it was covered. Stocking hat, the bandanna, at that point, it looked like a gangrelated carjacking. The gmc suburban was a desirable car. It was easy to chop up and they could make a lot of money just selling those parts. I found out about it that morning. If youre a cop reporter and you have an a. M. Deadline, first thing you do when you wake up is you turn on the news to see what happened overnight. The news of the homicide came on and i thought, oh, [ bleep ]. The victim was white, middle class, gunned down by a young africanamerican male in a wealthy suburb of Oklahoma City. Edmond was over 85 white back in the 90s. When integration went full swing, many whites left Oklahoma City and edmond was one of the areas they moved to in record numbers. It wasnt filled with gangs, or filled with crime. People moved to edmond to live a safe life. We can go to edmond and we can protect our families. There was a fear at that time that was almost palpable of dangerous, young black youth. 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Calls are put out describing the suburban. The police are soliciting information from people. On friday, two days after the howell murder, the police stumbled upon the suburban parked at a Grocery Store on the south side of Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma CityPolice Department got involved when the vehicle was recovered. What they generally do is try to find their people that they get information from, they know people who know things and so they tap those resources. Kermit lottie was an oldschool guy, ran a chop shop that was a couple blocks down from the central grocery. And kermit was a longtime confidential informant. He said a guy named dayday had been by to try and sell this suburban. The police recognized dayday as a nickname for ladell king. You mention ladell king, i think car theft. He was involved in car thefts all around the metro area. He had been doing that for years. Ladell king was actually a confidential informant for the edmond Police Department. On friday, ladell king is brought into police custody. Ladell. Is it la dell. Ladell was interviewed by the lead detectives in this case, Theresa Pfeiffer and tony fike. Im just a middle man relaying a message. From this guy to that guy. He told police them that on the night of the crime, a guy named chris jordan comes to his apartment. Well, i was at home watching tv, maybe 9 45, 10 00. I heard loud music pull up in front of the apartments. So i walked outside. I seen westside. You only knew chris jordan as westside . Thats it. A few minutes later, according to ladell king, julius jones drives up. I seen julius driving a gold suburban. Ladell king says that julius had stolen this vehicle and had approached him as an experienced middle man who could sell the suburban. Ladell tells the police that he went to the chop shop the next day that was owned by kermit lottie, to see if he was interested in this suburban. And kermit told him that there was a homicide connected to the car. He said, man, i dont think i want to mess with no suburbans right now. Heard some guy in edmond got shot over a suburban. After that, i went home. So i turn to channel 53. It really aint clicked to me, until i seen a picture of the suburban. That thats what julius got out of. This is on the news . This is on the news. I see what the shooter was supposed to had on and everything. And then i remember something about him. He had a red bandanna around his neck. He had a stocking cap on. And that matched the description that the victims sister megan tobey gave on the night paul howell was killed. And later on, they came back over. So they came over to your house . Yeah, westside and julius did. And i said, julius, i know you shot that man in edmond now. That white tshirt that you tried to take off when you got here, thats what you had on. That red bandanna that you had around your face is the same thing theyre identifying on the tv. What did he say . He just backed up. Hes like, man, okay. 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And i was like, what . And im like, mom, dad, telephone. Its somebody saying that julius is in trouble. They wanted to know if julius was here. I said, hes not here. When i went to open the door up, man, theres cops all on the front porch with their guns out. All i heard at that time was what my mother and father were saying. Dont say anything. Just keep your hands up and walk outside. Dont run or nothing. Just so thats what we did. They were already looking for julius. And they didnt seem too friendly. And i know how things can be. Some people have itchy fingers. They pull us all out of the house. It was about nine, ten guns drawn on us. It was so scary that if i wanted to cry i couldnt cry. From the time ladell king spoke to the police pointing to julius as the shooter and chris as the accomplice, julius was the priority. And they were seeking a search and arrest warrant for julius. But without a warrant, the police could not enter julius parents house. I could remember it like it was yesterday. I come home, our whole block is covered with Oklahoma County sheriff, Oklahoma City department, helicopters, news stations, i cant even get to my house. So i asked one of the county sheriffs, whats going on . Well, were looking for a murder suspect. So i look down the street and it is julius house. And i say, nah, it cant be my julius. Hes my middle child and some say that hes a lot like me. He likes people and likes learning and doing things. They were sticklers about us keeping our grades up. It would seem my mother would be that way because she was a teacher. But my father was definitely on us about our grades. My father was a cement finisher, a construction worker. My father was my hero. I mean, he was hard on us, but he was always teaching us. Me and my brother were really close. It was like we were two parts of the same person. Theres a lot of fights that i didnt get into because my brother kept me from getting into those fights. Its all over. Sophomore, julius jones. Me and julius grew up on the same block. My dad and his dad coached together. Mr. Jones and my dad would come pick us up from the game. Say we had a bad game, julius would come out hotheaded or mad about his performance and, you know, pops would say, hey, do we do that . And julius would be like, no, sir. Hes exactly the type of student you want. He was always thoughtful. He always saw big picture, got along with all sorts of people, curious about all sorts of things. We were the only two africanamerican males to graduate in the top 10 of our class. Julius attended the university of oklahoma on an academic scholarship as well, which was big time. Our idea was, try to get educated, provide something that somebody could say, did julius and jimmy make it out and become successful . Then i could do it, too. It made me feel good for him to go to college. I was very proud of him. But i kind of noticed that julius started changing a little bit. He started getting into trouble. Julius was not a choir boy. He had some prior convictions. They were for petty thefts. For making a false statement in pursuit of a state i. D. My first year at school, being young, just wanting to have money. I got into shoplifting. I stole pagers. I stole things that i could sell. Its a part of growing up, being rebellious, trying to be cool. Trying to have nice clothes, like, you know, the kids that got nice clothes. Kids like to have nice stuff and you may do hairbrained things to get them. Wrong is wrong. I shouldnt have done it. And im not trying to hide it from anybody that ive broken the law, i have. But just because i broke the law does not make me a murderer. Next Oklahoma City and Edmond Police officers unleashed a massive effort, descending on this quiet neighborhood in search of 19yearold julius jones. Police found a red bandanna and a. 25caliber automatic. It looked really bad. You are. 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