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From New York City,

Roberta Glass is now on the record.

Okay, good evening everybody.

Well, I have been following the saga of Leonard Allen Cure since it started making the news.

And it was really interesting. So when I first saw since it started making the news.

And it was really interesting.

So when I first saw the headline exonerated, man gets killed after a traffic stop, after a routine traffic stop, it really looked like the press was going to put the blame on the deputy

sheriff who stopped him for going a thousand, a thousand, a hundred miles an hour on the freeway.

And and 100 miles an hour on the freeway. And this happened in Georgia.

Now, Leonard Kure was, quote, unquote, exonerated

of the crime of armed robbery of a Walgreens in 2003.

And when I looked into it, it really is much more like a sentence reduction that happened in 2020,

thanks to the Florida Conviction Integrity Review. So if you don't understand what a conviction

integrity review is.

So the wrongful conviction movement has been successful in putting these kind of review boards,

very similar to a parole board, but mostly they're filled with ideologically aligned people who will look at these wrongful convictions.

And usually when they propose them, they usually base them.

Like, for example, in Queens, Marty Tankcliffe, who was convicted for murdering his adoptive parents, Arlene and Seymour

Tankcliffe, when Cuomo reviewed his conviction, they overturned it on a technicality.

He said he should not be looked at as innocent in any way, shape, or form, and he does not deserve any money.

Well, the PR machine started rolling thanks to Lonnie Surrey, who is also the West Memphis 3's public relations specialist.

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