Robert Jones: Free at last?

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Aleem Maqbool investigates New Orleans’ justice system to find out how Robert Jones spent 23 years in jail for crimes another man had already been convicted of.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC podcast.
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0:21.3	The sounds of a family joyfully being reunited. Hello, I'm Aline McBall, and for assignment this week I'm in New Orleans.
0:27.0	To investigate a case that's been called by legal charities one of the most astonishing miscarriages of justice they've seen in America for years,
0:35.0	one that raises uncomfortable questions about race and the country's legal system.
0:41.0	It's all right. system.
0:43.0	It's all right right now.
0:45.0	Oh my gosh, this is really, oh,
0:48.0	why?
0:51.0	Three weeks ago in new clothes that had to be bought for him by his lawyers and with his arms raised to the skies
0:58.0	Robert Jones walked out of New Orleans Parish Jail to be engulfed by his family, free at last for now at least, after
1:06.4	23 years behind bars. Among those he was reunited with his mother, his sister, and a daughter born after he was jailed.
1:16.0	Can I tell you my baby pray for you every day?
1:20.0	This baby pray for you every day.
1:22.0	See you all? This baby friend for you every day. See her?
1:24.0	She pray for her.
1:26.0	Her papa.
1:28.0	Robert a quick word, how you feeling?
1:30.0	Oh man, I feel great.
1:32.0	I feel good.
1:33.0	He must have been thinking about this moment for a long time.
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