"You are not going back to prison"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Walter Roy spent almost three decades in prison for a shooting in Fort Worth. Prosecutors, witnesses and police agreed that he didn't do it. WFAA Investigative Reporter Tanya Eiserer tells us about Roy's long journey to freedom. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.8	All right, Walter.
0:02.8	I wanted you to be the first to hear this for me.
0:06.3	The Court of Criminal Appeals has granted release.
0:10.1	That's good, man.
0:11.1	You are not going back to prison.
0:13.0	For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.
0:14.9	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:29.9	He was a black man in Tarrant County in a bad situation with bad people, and they said this good enough for us.
0:39.3	And because he denies being the shooter, he has given a life sentence because he won't admit to something that isn't true.
0:43.4	He asks repeatedly over and over, please look at my case, Taryn County.
0:44.9	I didn't do this. I didn't do this.
0:46.1	How long have you been in prison?
0:50.1	Going on in December would be 26 years.
0:56.5	A North Texas man has spent more than 25 years in prison for a crime that police and prosecutors now agree he did not commit.
0:59.0	But a legal technicality could send it back to prison for the rest of his life.
1:03.3	From the start, Walter Roy denied he was the shooter.
1:06.7	But he spent 26 years behind bars and until just a short time ago,
1:12.7	he wasn't sure if he'd ever be let out.
1:14.1	All that's changed.
1:16.0	I knew this day was going to come.
1:21.2	I've always confessed this and trusted, you know, God, you know,
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