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He has been on death row for 36 years.

But in the next week, one of two things is going to happen.

He's either going to get a new trial or he is going to walk out of prison. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. presents. We don't get these everyday rog, but we're talking about a guy who's been on death row for a long time. And the clock is ticking. Something's going to happen. That's right. This is one of Alabama's longest serving death row inmates, 63-year-old Michael

Sokwell. Yes, he's been on death row for 36 years. He's been on death row since 1990

after he was convicted of killing a sheriff's deputy. His name was Isaiah Harris. But this is now

a situation in which prosecutors, yes, have days to make a decision whether

or not to retry Michael Sokwell. And this has serious implications in terms of the prosecutorial

conduct in how they seated the jury in Michael Sockwell's case. Let's be clear here,

folks. We have seen a bunch of cases where the guilt or innocence of someone on death row is questioned.

We've seen cases where they say circumstances are a little different and maybe the sentence

need to be changed. That is not the conversation we're having here. No one's beating a drum

and saying this man is innocent and we have evidence.

He needs to be off death row. What they're saying here, Robes, he never got a fair trial in the first

place. Correct. And we should point out Sockwell does maintain his innocence. He says he did not

commit this crime. He actually has the finger pointed at someone specifically who he says, in fact,

did the killing. But you are correct.

This is not an issue of guilt or innocence. This is an issue of who was seated on the jury and why.

And a DA who apparently had a, quote, significant history of refusing to seat black jurors on the jury.

That's a big no-no.

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