The Long Road to Freedom

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4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Two Tulsa, Oklahoma brothers fight for more than 20 years to prove their innocence after they were each wrongfully convicted for separate murders. Craig Melvin reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 19, 2020.

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0:00.0	Will a wrong be made right?
0:02.6	Will a family be made whole?
0:05.3	I'm Lester Holt and this is Dade Line.
0:09.8	Something is wrong here.
0:12.3	This system doesn't want to acknowledge
0:15.0	that they made a mistake.
0:16.8	But you made a mistake.
0:18.8	My detective was like,
0:20.3	you gonna tell us you did this?
0:22.3	And I'm like, man, I did nothing.
0:24.3	You hear the judge say guilty.
0:27.0	Everything just froze.
0:28.5	On this June-Chaint, inequality in America,
0:32.0	two brothers convicted of murder,
0:34.2	fight back against the justice system.
0:36.7	Prices of pattern.
0:37.7	A pattern of how to gain a conviction.
0:40.7	I knew they were innocent and the question was,
0:43.5	do we have enough?
0:45.2	You've got several witnesses
0:46.8	saying their testimony was coerced.
0:48.9	Can they all be lying?
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