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🗓️ 24 October 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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After years of insisting a key witness perjured himself, William Virgil finds proof — but does the truth matter?
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0:00.0 | I remember vividly and he was dressed in a hoodie. |
0:16.4 | He had a hoodie on like a sweat suit outfit. |
0:20.2 | What are you talking about? |
0:26.2 | I cannot confess anything to someone I don't know anything about. |
0:35.4 | It was shocking to me as an attorney that there wasn't a mistrial. |
0:49.2 | I remember Hunt and this is accused, the unsolved murder of Rita Welch. |
0:54.8 | William Virgil was convicted in part because of testimony by a man who lied on the stand. |
1:00.5 | It took some time but Virgil proved it. |
1:03.4 | Joe Womack had straight up lied about the two sharing an isolation cell. |
1:08.4 | This is where the case takes a turn. |
1:11.0 | Well it's nothing new for a jailhouse informant to give false testimony. |
1:15.2 | Innocence Project lawyer Elliott Slossar says he's never seen anything quite like what happened in this case. |
1:21.6 | In a court hearing he used words like railroaded and framed as he accused the police of misconduct. |
1:27.8 | The truth is on our side and frankly the egregious police misconduct that happened here that led to William spending three decades wrongfully in prison. |
1:35.8 | We've already revealed that. |
1:38.2 | He isn't show-boding, he believes this because he's talked to Joe Womack who told him a tale of corruption that he's never heard before. |
1:52.2 | William Virgil wasn't the type to sit quietly in prison. |
1:57.5 | He filed lawsuits and motions on his own behalf, he read law books and helped other prisoners with their petitions. |
2:04.7 | After he successfully backed the courts into acknowledging that inmates and isolation weren't allowed cellmates, |
2:10.8 | he thought he had sucker punched the system, he thought he would soon be free. |
2:15.7 | That was 1991. Soon after Virgil filed a petition that alleged he had been convicted because of |
2:22.3 | perjured testimony and that he'd been denied a fair trial. |
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