My name is Ted Bradford. I live in Washington State. I was wrongly convicted in 1996.

I spent 10 years in prison, continued to fight my case, and was finally granted a retrial in 2008.

And the retrial was granted based on new DNA evidence that wasn't available at the time of the first trial in 1996.

So the state of Washington granted my rights to a new trial.

The state actually then decided to retry me on the same charges

from 1996. And after a two-week trial, I was finally acquitted on all charges and exonerated.

My exoneration happened in 2010.

Hi, I'm Brooke, and you're listening to actual innocence, a podcast bringing awareness to wrongful conviction and problems in the justice system.

I'm here with DeMarco.

How are you doing this week, DeMarco?

Well, to tell you the truth, I'm doing fabulous.

Ah, yeah, I'm doing fabulous.

And you know why that is?

Why is that?

Because something that we helped create, Leslie Vass.

He will be attending the Innoc innocence conference in Memphis next month.

And I'm very excited about it.

I was emailing with him.

I helped him fill out the online registration and book his flight because he had never done those things before.

And he was just so appreciative.

And so he's so excited. So I am also really excited that he

gets to go. And we have you to thank, Brooks. Thank you. Well, and we have the listeners to thank.

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