I T'alamu al-a-a-a-come. Greetings to Rabia, Colin, and to undisclosed, and to all the audience.

I appreciate your attention, and I thank you all for me to explain my story here.

My name is Carmen Woods. I came to prison at the 10th of age of 19.

I was wrongly convicted for first degree murder and attempted to murder, November 20th,

1982.

I was sentenced to life without parole plus 12 and a half to 25 years, which is a DBI, meaning

death by incarceration.

And in that sense there, I was caught up also in a mass incarceration movement that started

with Ronald Reagan back in the 1980s.

And this means that DAs had open field to get a conviction by any means necessary, and I was a victim of that.

And I'd say that by incarceration, but some believed that I might have been buried in the dirt,

not to see another daylight ever again. I'd say I was only planted. And when you planned something,

with the property of cultivation, it will grow.

I came to prison as a 19-year-old child.

My mind was still to develop.

And then I'm a 63-year-old man.

And I thank Allah for blessing me with my health,

faculties, and the will of fight.

And I prayed to get this awful conviction fixed in 2026.

As to 43 years, I'm still here fighting.

However, things have become more clear as to how the DA's office

ran me a monk and bambooz of my defense by hiding and misleading evidence.

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