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- police and prosecutors packaged the weed and the guns together like they were one big crime. - three pounds of marijuana with no weapon. you see how it doesn't make sense when we go to talk about the guns? the guns have nothing to do with the drugs. - his record is not very substantial in the first place. and to see this kind of sentence, i can't imagine what was going through the judge's mind. - i don't even think people would get sent to prison at all for those types of crimes today. we're really trying to keep our community safe, and nothing from these facts tell me that my community was ...

- yeah. - i'm gonna try and schedule a call with michael. i was just hoping we had something to give him, but sounds like■ - i know. i wish. i wish. well, give him my best. i'm really■ we'll keep pushing. - okay. thanks, katerina. - sure. take care. - talk to you soon. bye. - bye-bye. [call ends] [vacuum whooshing] - the facts are someone came to michael's house, discussed purchasing marijuana. he went to another house, got that marijuana, and then delivered it to the confidential informant. and they used the marijuana sale to search his house for the guns. at no point was a gun referenced...

Right now. well, i believe the only, the only one i can depend on was god. and i believed in him, i believed that one day. yeah, i believed in him. and that's what got you through. yeah. like i said, i don't know you, but i appreciate meeting you and you telling your story here. hayley, your thoughts. thank you for having us. and i'm just really happy to be seeing this day with michael. our whole goal is just to put a face to all of the numbers. like there's michael knows them. there's tons of other people that are in just like him. and we just wanted to use the film to kind of bring the human...

I'm not that person anymore. i don't have that criminal mentality anymore. period. i'm done with that. all i wanna do is get back to my life, get back to my life and get back■ you know what i'm saying? try to build me some kind of foundation for my kids. - all right. thank you. - i think the thing that attracted me to take this case is that it's the most disparate sentencing i've seen in my career, which says a lot. because i handle a lot of post-conviction matters and a lot of matters that deal with these kind of injustices. beyond that, the governor in michigan has unabashedly held the pos...

And his family with this ongoing incarceration. - my father has grandchildren that he has not met. he even has great grandchildren he has not met. and i just want to bring him home with me. we could build a relationship, and get our life back on track like we used to have. he would give anyone a shirt off his back. he has a very good sense of humor. - mr. thompson has always been a great person, entrepreneur. he has so many friends in the community waiting for his release. - michael has demonstrated a lasting positive effect on those around him. - today, i ask for a measurement of mercy and ju...