1 00:00:11,034 --> 00:00:15,240 >> MY PHONE STARTED JUST BLOWING UP. 2 00:00:15,275 --> 00:00:17,309 THERE WAS A TEXT THAT SAID, "WE DID IT. 3 00:00:17,344 --> 00:00:23,000 CROSLEY'S GOING TO BE RELEASED." 4 00:00:23,033 --> 00:00:24,000 WE STARTED SCRAMBLING. 5 00:00:24,033 --> 00:00:27,068 WE LET THE FAMILY KNOW. 6 00:00:27,103 --> 00:00:30,033 WE GOT DOWN THERE, AND THEN THE GATES OPENED AND CROSLEY STEPPED 7 00:00:30,068 --> 00:00:32,000 OUT. 8 00:00:32,033 --> 00:00:36,000 >> IT'S A MOMENT THAT I'VE DREAMT ABOUT SO MANY TIMES. 9 00:00:36,033 --> 00:00:40,000 AND TO HAVE IT COME TRUE, I THINK I WAS MAYBE STILL A LITTLE 10 00:00:40,033 --> 00:00:42,033 BIT IN SHOCK. 11 00:00:42,067 --> 00:00:46,206 [ LAUGHTER] [ CROSSTALK] 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:47,965 >> ALL RIGHT, BROTHER! 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000 [ LAUGHTER] >> AND WE THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR 14 00:00:50,033 --> 00:00:52,310 OPENING THEM DOORS THAT MEN HAVE SHUT FOR US, OH, HEAVENLY 15 00:00:52,344 --> 00:00:53,619 FATHER. 16 00:00:53,655 --> 00:00:55,033 >> I WANT TO SEE MY KIDS, MY GRANDKIDS. 17 00:00:55,067 --> 00:00:57,655 I GOT GRANDKIDS I'D NEVER SEEN. 18 00:00:57,689 --> 00:00:59,965 >> IT WAS INCREDIBLE. 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,034 [ CROSSTALK] >> IT WAS SO JOYOUS. 20 00:01:04,067 --> 00:01:08,034 THERE WERE FAMILY MEMBERS THERE THAT HE HAD NEVER MET. 21 00:01:08,067 --> 00:01:08,861 >> THIS YOUNG MAN? 22 00:01:08,896 --> 00:01:13,000 >> YES, YEP! 23 00:01:13,034 --> 00:01:14,379 [ LAUGHTER ] >> THEY WEREN'T BORN WHEN HE 24 00:01:14,412 --> 00:01:18,033 WENT INTO PRISON. 25 00:01:21,033 --> 00:01:23,000 >> WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. 26 00:01:23,033 --> 00:01:28,000 ALL WE KNOW IS THAT CHIP FLYNN PICKED UP HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND. 27 00:01:28,033 --> 00:01:28,551 THEY HAD SEX. 28 00:01:28,585 --> 00:01:30,620 THEY SMOKED MARIJUANA. 29 00:01:30,655 --> 00:01:34,620 THEN, CHIP FLYNN GOT SHOT. 30 00:01:34,655 --> 00:01:40,551 >> IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF APRIL 4, 1989, THE POLICE 31 00:01:40,585 --> 00:01:42,758 RECEIVED A 911 CALL FROM KIM HALLOCK. 32 00:01:42,793 --> 00:01:44,826 >> I WAS DISPATCHED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. 33 00:01:44,861 --> 00:01:50,067 >> THEY DID EVENTUALLY FIND CHIP FLYNN LYING IN AN ABANDONED 34 00:01:50,103 --> 00:01:51,861 ORANGE GROVE. 35 00:01:51,896 --> 00:01:52,930 >> HE'S BEEN SHOT. 36 00:01:52,965 --> 00:01:58,448 I GET A CALL SHORTLY AFTER 2:00 THAT HE HAS DIED. 37 00:01:58,481 --> 00:02:07,412 >> THERE WAS A STATEMENT TAKEN FROM KIM HALLOCK. 38 00:02:07,448 --> 00:02:08,620 >> YOU DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE AROUND. 39 00:02:08,655 --> 00:02:11,620 SHOTS WERE FIRED. 40 00:02:11,655 --> 00:02:12,550 YOU DON'T SEE ANY SHELL CASINGS. 41 00:02:12,586 --> 00:02:16,240 AND IT JUST MAKES YOU WONDER. 42 00:02:16,275 --> 00:02:18,655 >> I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD SHE SAYS. 43 00:02:18,688 --> 00:02:22,620 IT'S UNFORTUNATELY A CLASSIC CASE OF WHAT IS OFTEN REFERRED 44 00:02:22,655 --> 00:02:28,516 TO AS A RACIAL HOAX, WHICH IS "A BLACK GUY DID IT." 45 00:02:28,550 --> 00:02:31,826 >> Reporter: SO, YOU GET THEN CALLED IN BY THE PROSECUTOR. 46 00:02:31,861 --> 00:02:34,206 >> I TOLD HIM I THOUGHT SHE DID IT. 47 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,516 >> I SAID TO HIM, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU NEED TO TAKE A CLOSE 48 00:02:36,550 --> 00:02:40,343 LOOK AT KIM HALLOCK. 49 00:02:40,378 --> 00:02:42,620 >> Reporter: WERE YOU AT ALL SURPRISED WHEN CROSLEY GREEN WAS 50 00:02:42,655 --> 00:02:44,550 CHARGED WITH CHIP FLYNN'S MURDER? 51 00:02:44,586 --> 00:02:46,516 >> IT WAS A TOTAL SHOCK. 52 00:02:46,550 --> 00:02:59,240 THIS-- THIS WAS, LIKE, PICKING A NAME OUT OF A HAT. 53 00:02:59,275 --> 00:03:02,965 >> WE FINALLY HAD A FEDERAL JUDGE RULE THAT CROSLEY GREEN 54 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,550 HAD BEEN WRONGFULLY AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY CONVICTED. 55 00:03:08,586 --> 00:03:11,343 >> Reporter: WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE, THE FIRST TIME YOU WALKED 56 00:03:11,378 --> 00:03:13,103 OUT AND THE GATES CLOSED BEHIND YOU? 57 00:03:13,137 --> 00:03:16,826 >> I WASN'T FOCUSED ON WHAT WAS BEHIND ME NO MORE. 58 00:03:16,861 --> 00:03:18,550 I WAS FOCUSED ON WHAT WAS IN FRONT OF ME. 59 00:03:18,586 --> 00:03:22,310 >> Reporter: THE STATE COULD DECIDE TO RETRY YOU. 60 00:03:22,343 --> 00:03:24,033 YOU'RE NOT AFRAID OF IT? 61 00:03:24,068 --> 00:03:25,205 >> I'M NOT AFRAID OF IT. 62 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,965 WHAT I HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU FOR THE LAST 20-SOME YEARS? 63 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,343 THAT I WAS INNOCENT? 64 00:03:30,378 --> 00:03:32,378 I WANT MY DAY IN COURT TO PROVE THAT. 65 00:04:30,033 --> 00:04:34,000 >> I WANT TO THANK GOD. 66 00:04:34,033 --> 00:04:36,516 I WANT TO THANK GOD THAT I'M STANDING HERE TODAY AS A FREE 67 00:04:36,550 --> 00:04:38,137 MAN. 68 00:04:38,172 --> 00:04:45,757 I WANT TO THANK MY LAWYERS FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE. 69 00:04:45,793 --> 00:04:49,103 >> Reporter: ON CROSLEY GREEN'S FIRST FULL DAY OF FREEDOM, EVEN 70 00:04:49,137 --> 00:04:54,654 A PRESS CONFERENCE UNDER A GIANT TREE FEELS SPECIAL. 71 00:04:54,689 --> 00:05:00,413 >> SOMETHING I HAVEN'T STOOD UP UNDER IN 30-SOME YEARS. 72 00:05:00,447 --> 00:05:04,343 >> Reporter: NEXT STOP FOR CROSLEY AND HIS LAWYERS? 73 00:05:04,379 --> 00:05:05,137 >> THIS IS GREAT! 74 00:05:05,172 --> 00:05:07,757 >> Reporter: THE TASTE OF FREEDOM. 75 00:05:07,793 --> 00:05:09,000 >> I'VE BEEN WANTING THIS STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM FOR SO 76 00:05:09,033 --> 00:05:10,620 LONG. 77 00:05:10,654 --> 00:05:12,550 THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I WANT TO GET WHEN I GET OUT OF 78 00:05:12,586 --> 00:05:14,103 HERE. 79 00:05:14,137 --> 00:05:16,550 >> Reporter: CROSLEY GREEN IS OUT OF PRISON, BUT HE'S NOT 80 00:05:16,586 --> 00:05:17,826 TRULYA FREE MAN. 81 00:05:17,862 --> 00:05:22,654 AFTER HIS MURDER CONVICTION WAS VACATED BY A FEDERAL COURT IN 82 00:05:22,689 --> 00:05:26,930 2018, THE STATE OF FLORIDA APPEALED. 83 00:05:26,964 --> 00:05:29,033 CROSLEY HAD BEEN KEPT BEHIND BARS, WAITING FOR THE U.S. 84 00:05:29,067 --> 00:05:31,481 COURT OF APPEALS TO DECIDE. 85 00:05:31,516 --> 00:05:36,516 BUT LAST WEEK, HIS ATTORNEYS, WORRIED ABOUT CROSLEY'S HEALTH, 86 00:05:36,550 --> 00:05:40,516 CONVINCED A FEDERAL JUDGE TO ALLOW CROSLEY TO WAIT WITH HIS 87 00:05:40,550 --> 00:05:42,723 FAMILY. 88 00:05:42,757 --> 00:05:44,516 ATTORNEY KEITH HARRISON. 89 00:05:44,550 --> 00:05:46,620 HE'S HOME NOW, BUT THAT COULD CHANGE. 90 00:05:46,654 --> 00:05:48,516 HE COULD GO BACK, COULDN'T HE? 91 00:05:48,550 --> 00:05:50,343 >> HE COULD. 92 00:05:50,379 --> 00:05:56,516 IF THE COURT OF APPEALS' DECISION COMES DOWN AGAINST HIM, 93 00:05:56,550 --> 00:05:58,620 HE WOULD LIKELY GO BACK TO PRISON. 94 00:05:58,654 --> 00:06:00,550 IT-- IT'S A REAL POSSIBILITY. 95 00:06:00,586 --> 00:06:04,550 >> Reporter: "48 HOURS" HAS BEEN COVERING THIS QUESTIONABLE 96 00:06:04,586 --> 00:06:07,000 CONVICTION FOR 22 YEARS. 97 00:06:07,033 --> 00:06:09,654 CROSLEY'S ATTORNEYS SAY RACE WAS A FACTOR FROM THE BEGINNING. 98 00:06:09,689 --> 00:06:15,516 >> THE EVIDENCE THAT CROSLEY GREEN IS INNOCENT IS LITERALLY 99 00:06:15,550 --> 00:06:17,137 OVERWHELMING. 100 00:06:17,172 --> 00:06:21,620 >> Reporter: CROSLEY'S ORDEAL BEGAN IN APRIL OF 1989. 101 00:06:21,654 --> 00:06:25,964 CHARLES FLYNN, BETTER KNOWN AS CHIP, WAS FOUND SHOT IN A 102 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,067 FLORIDA CITRUS GROVE. 103 00:06:27,103 --> 00:06:29,862 HE HAD BEEN WITH HIS EX- GIRLFRIEND, KIM HALLOCK, THAT 104 00:06:29,896 --> 00:06:31,481 NIGHT. 105 00:06:31,516 --> 00:06:33,620 SHE TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT THEY HAD BEEN ROBBED AND HIJACKED BY 106 00:06:33,654 --> 00:06:39,481 A BLACK MAN IN HOLDER PARK AS THEY SAT IN CHIP'S TRUCK A 107 00:06:39,516 --> 00:06:43,481 LITTLE AFTER 11:00 P.M. 108 00:06:47,516 --> 00:06:50,516 >> Reporter: 20 MINUTES LATER, KIM SAYS, CHIP STEPPED OUT OF 109 00:06:50,550 --> 00:06:58,550 THE TRUCK, AND SHE HEARD HIM SAY, "HOLD ON, MAN." 110 00:06:58,586 --> 00:06:59,137 >> Reporter: SHE SAYS THE MAN >> Reporter: SHE SAYS THE MAN 111 00:07:10,033 --> 00:07:13,379 TIED CHIP'S HANDS WITH A SHOELACE, ORDERED HER TO HAND 112 00:07:13,413 --> 00:07:15,137 OVER MONEY FROM CHIP'S WALLET. 113 00:07:15,172 --> 00:07:20,896 AND THEN, WITH EVERYONE IN THIS TRUCK, SHE SAYS THE ASSAILANT 114 00:07:20,930 --> 00:07:25,379 DROVE THEM TO THE ORANGE GROVE, STEERING, SHIFTING GEARS, AND 115 00:07:25,413 --> 00:07:31,343 SOMEHOW HOLDING A GUN ON THEM ALL AT THE SAME TIME. 116 00:07:31,379 --> 00:07:33,689 KIM HALLOCK TOLD POLICE THAT WHEN THEY GOT TO THE GROVE, THE 117 00:07:33,723 --> 00:07:35,481 MAN YANKED HER OUT OF THE TRUCK. 118 00:07:35,516 --> 00:07:40,379 AND THEN, CHIP, HIS HANDS STILL TIED BEHIND HIS BACK, SOMEHOW 119 00:07:40,413 --> 00:07:45,343 MANAGED TO GET A HOLD OF HISGUN THAT KIM HAD HIDDEN ON THE TRUCK 120 00:07:45,379 --> 00:07:47,481 SEAT. 121 00:07:57,447 --> 00:08:01,413 >> Reporter: SHE SAID SHE THEN DROVE TO A FRIEND'S HOME FOR 122 00:08:01,447 --> 00:08:03,620 HELP. 123 00:08:03,654 --> 00:08:05,482 SHERIFF DEPUTY MARK RIXEY AND SERGEANT DIANE CLARK WERE THE 124 00:08:05,516 --> 00:08:09,413 FIRST TWO OFFICERS ON THE SCENE. 125 00:08:09,447 --> 00:08:17,379 KIM HALLOCK SAYS THAT THIS ASSAILANT TOOK BOTH CHIP AND KIM 126 00:08:17,413 --> 00:08:21,000 TO THIS CITRUS GROVE AT 12:10, AND YET YOU'RE NOT DISPATCHED 127 00:08:21,033 --> 00:08:22,964 TILL 1:13. 128 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,240 >> IT'S OVER AN HOUR. 129 00:08:24,274 --> 00:08:28,930 THERE IS APPROXIMATELY AN HOUR THAT IS MISSING AND UNEXPLAINED. 130 00:08:28,964 --> 00:08:32,931 >> Reporter: HOW CRUCIAL WAS THAT TIME, THAT NIGHT? 131 00:08:32,965 --> 00:08:35,033 >> MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. 132 00:08:35,067 --> 00:08:37,379 >> WHY IS SHE NOT STOPPING SOME PLACE AND MAKING THAT PHONE 133 00:08:37,413 --> 00:08:38,481 CALL? 134 00:08:38,517 --> 00:08:40,654 >> Reporter: WHERE COULD SHE HAVE CALLED? 135 00:08:40,688 --> 00:08:41,172 >> RIGHT HERE. 136 00:08:41,206 --> 00:08:42,447 >> FROM A PAYPHONE. 137 00:08:42,481 --> 00:08:44,895 I THINK THERE WAS THREE ALONG THE WAY, RIGHT? 138 00:08:44,931 --> 00:08:47,033 CONVENIENCE STORE, CONVENIENCE STORE, AND THE HOSPITAL IS RIGHT 139 00:08:47,067 --> 00:08:48,895 THERE. 140 00:08:48,931 --> 00:08:52,895 >> Reporter: THE DIRECTIONS KIM GAVE WERE SO VAGUE THAT EVEN 141 00:08:52,931 --> 00:08:56,895 AFTER CLARK AND RIXEY WERE DISPATCHED, IT TOOK ANOTHER 30 142 00:08:56,931 --> 00:08:59,033 MINUTES TO FIND CHIP. 143 00:08:59,067 --> 00:09:00,965 >> GET THE CALL AT 1:13. 144 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,379 I RESPOND TO THIS AREA. 145 00:09:03,413 --> 00:09:04,861 THERE'S NOTHING THERE. 146 00:09:04,895 --> 00:09:08,895 HAD TO NOTIFY MY DISPATCH, GET BETTER DIRECTIONS. 147 00:09:08,931 --> 00:09:11,033 I DRIVE TO THIS NEW AREA HERE WHERE THEY INFORMED ME TO GO. 148 00:09:11,067 --> 00:09:12,309 AGAIN, THERE'S NOTHING THERE. 149 00:09:12,344 --> 00:09:16,551 >> Reporter: WHY, THEN, WERE YOU FIRST SENT TO THE WRONG 150 00:09:16,586 --> 00:09:17,826 LOCATION? 151 00:09:17,861 --> 00:09:19,688 >> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION, ONE WE'VE BEEN ASKING OURSELVES FOR 152 00:09:19,724 --> 00:09:20,793 30 YEARS. 153 00:09:20,826 --> 00:09:21,654 >> 30 YEARS. 154 00:09:21,688 --> 00:09:23,033 BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T TELL US WHERE TO GO. 155 00:09:23,067 --> 00:09:24,931 SHE GAVE THE WRONG DIRECTION. 156 00:09:24,965 --> 00:09:28,517 >> Reporter: SGT. CLARK ENDED UP SENDING ANOTHER DEPUTY TO PICK 157 00:09:28,551 --> 00:09:32,793 KIM UP SO SHE COULD BETTER GUIDE THEM. 158 00:09:32,826 --> 00:09:33,620 >> SHE WOULDN'T GET OUT THE CAR. 159 00:09:33,654 --> 00:09:35,136 >> WE SAY, "CAN YOU SHOW US WHERE?" 160 00:09:35,172 --> 00:09:36,931 >> YEAH. 161 00:09:36,965 --> 00:09:38,826 >> "NOPE. 162 00:09:38,861 --> 00:09:39,688 NOT GOING DOWN THERE." 163 00:09:39,724 --> 00:09:40,931 >> Reporter: WHAT DID THAT SAY TO YOU? 164 00:09:40,965 --> 00:09:42,724 WHAT DID YOU THINK? 165 00:09:42,758 --> 00:09:44,931 >> THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG. 166 00:09:44,965 --> 00:09:47,033 SOMETHING IS NOT RINGING TRUE. 167 00:09:47,067 --> 00:09:50,895 I WOULD WANT TO KNOW, IS HE OKAY? 168 00:09:50,931 --> 00:09:53,067 >> Reporter: THEY FOUND CHIP LAYING ON HIS STOMACH WITH HIS 169 00:09:53,102 --> 00:09:57,481 HANDS TIED BEHIND HIS BACK, BLEEDING FROM A SINGLE GUNSHOT 170 00:09:57,517 --> 00:09:59,033 WOUND TO HIS CHEST. 171 00:09:59,067 --> 00:10:06,481 >> HE WAS IN PAIN, BUT I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT HE'D BE OKAY. 172 00:10:06,517 --> 00:10:08,895 >> FIRST WORDS OUT OF HIS MOUTH WERE, "GET ME OUT OF HERE. 173 00:10:08,931 --> 00:10:10,586 I WANT TO GO HOME." 174 00:10:10,620 --> 00:10:12,620 >> Reporter: DID HE MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT AN ASSAILANT? 175 00:10:12,654 --> 00:10:12,895 >> NOPE. 176 00:10:12,931 --> 00:10:14,067 >> NO. 177 00:10:14,102 --> 00:10:15,517 >> Reporter: DID HE MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT BEING ROBBED? 178 00:10:15,551 --> 00:10:16,758 >> NO. 179 00:10:16,793 --> 00:10:17,517 >> Reporter: DID HE MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT BEING KIDNAPPED? 180 00:10:17,551 --> 00:10:18,861 >> NO. 181 00:10:18,895 --> 00:10:20,895 >> I'M THINKING, "WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" 182 00:10:20,931 --> 00:10:24,895 >> MY FEELING ABOUT IT AT THE TIME-- AND STILL IS-- THAT HE 183 00:10:24,931 --> 00:10:27,620 WAS PROTECTING HER. 184 00:10:28,517 --> 00:10:32,033 >> Reporter: CHIP FLYNN STOPPED BREATHING TWICE AS THEY WAITED 185 00:10:32,067 --> 00:10:32,826 FOR AN AMBULANCE. 186 00:10:32,861 --> 00:10:36,861 SGT. CLARK TRIED TO SAVE HIS LIFE. 187 00:10:36,895 --> 00:10:37,965 >> HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DIE. 188 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,102 >> THERE WASN'T ANYTHING HE DIDN'T LIKE TO DO. 189 00:10:40,136 --> 00:10:43,136 >> Reporter: CHIP'S PARENTS, CHARLES AND PEGGY FLYNN, NOW 190 00:10:43,172 --> 00:10:45,033 BOTH DECEASED, RUSHED TO THE ORANGE GROVE WHEN THEY GOT THE 191 00:10:45,067 --> 00:10:48,861 WORD CHIP HAD BEEN HURT, BUT POLICE WOULDN'T LET THEM NEAR 192 00:10:48,895 --> 00:10:51,033 THE SCENE. 193 00:10:51,067 --> 00:10:56,447 >> I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GO BACK TO SEE HIM. 194 00:10:56,481 --> 00:10:58,793 >> Reporter: THE FLYNNS, WHO SPOKE WITH US IN 1999, WERE 195 00:10:58,826 --> 00:11:02,551 SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT CHIP HAD BEEN WITH KIM HALLOCK THAT 196 00:11:02,586 --> 00:11:04,861 NIGHT. 197 00:11:04,895 --> 00:11:05,586 CHIP HAD A NEW GIRLFRIEND. 198 00:11:05,620 --> 00:11:07,379 >> THAT WAS ALL HE TALKED ABOUT. 199 00:11:07,413 --> 00:11:09,931 HE DIDN'T MENTION KIM ANYMORE OR ANYTHING. 200 00:11:09,965 --> 00:11:12,895 >> Reporter: CHIP'S PARENTS SAID KIM HAD BECOME TOO POSSESSIVE 201 00:11:12,931 --> 00:11:15,102 AND OVERBEARING. 202 00:11:15,136 --> 00:11:16,102 >> CHIP LIKED HIS FREEDOM. 203 00:11:16,136 --> 00:11:17,620 SHE WANTED HIM TO BE WITH HER ALL THE TIME. 204 00:11:17,654 --> 00:11:21,309 >> Reporter: KIM WAS UPSET ABOUT THE BREAKUP, ACCORDING TO CHIP'S 205 00:11:21,344 --> 00:11:25,826 FRIEND, DAVID STROUP, WHO ALSO SPOKE WITH US IN 1999. 206 00:11:25,861 --> 00:11:29,517 >> I DO REMEMBER THAT HE JUST-- THAT SHE DIDN'T WANT TO LET GO. 207 00:11:29,551 --> 00:11:32,654 >> Reporter: AND IT WAS DAVID'S HOME WHERE KIM HALLOCK WENT FOR 208 00:11:32,688 --> 00:11:33,861 HELP. 209 00:11:33,895 --> 00:11:35,447 >> I WONDERED WHY SHE CAME TO MY PLACE, AS OPPOSED TO JUST 210 00:11:35,481 --> 00:11:40,620 STOPPING AT THE FIRST POTENTIAL TELEPHONE, YOU KNOW-- EVEN A 211 00:11:40,654 --> 00:11:44,861 HOME WITH A LIGHT ON OR ANYTHING IF IT, YOU KNOW. 212 00:11:44,895 --> 00:11:46,895 SO, IT'S ALWAYS BOTHERED ME. 213 00:11:46,931 --> 00:11:50,758 >> Reporter: KIM HALLOCK WAS NOT AND HAS NEVER BEEN A SUSPECT. 214 00:11:50,793 --> 00:11:53,344 HOMICIDE DETECTIVES FROM BREVARD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE SEEMED 215 00:11:53,379 --> 00:11:58,861 TO TAKE HER AT HER WORD DESPITE HER DELAY IN CALLING FOR HELP 216 00:11:58,895 --> 00:12:06,309 AND HER INABILITY TO DESCRIBE THE ASSAILANT VERY WELL. 217 00:12:06,344 --> 00:12:09,447 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS CLAIMED THAT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY 218 00:12:09,481 --> 00:12:12,895 THEY GOT A TIP THAT A SMALL-TIME DRUG DEALER, CROSLEY GREEN, WAS 219 00:12:12,931 --> 00:12:14,688 INVOLVED. 220 00:12:14,724 --> 00:12:16,413 HE HAD RECENTLY BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL. 221 00:12:16,447 --> 00:12:20,965 >> THE DESCRIPTION THAT SHE HAD GIVEN FOR THE SKETCH DIDN'T 222 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,172 MATCH HIM. 223 00:12:22,206 --> 00:12:24,895 >> Reporter: THEY SHOWED KIM THIS PHOTO LINE-UP, AND KIM 224 00:12:24,931 --> 00:12:29,000 CHOSE NUMBER TWO, CROSLEY GREEN. 225 00:12:29,033 --> 00:12:34,586 >> HIS PICTURE IS SMALLER AND DARKER THAN ANY OF THE OTHER 226 00:12:34,620 --> 00:12:35,826 PICTURES. 227 00:12:35,861 --> 00:12:40,861 AND IT'S RIGHT IN, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE 228 00:12:40,895 --> 00:12:43,447 "BULLS-EYE" POINT OF A PHOTO ARRAY. 229 00:12:43,481 --> 00:12:45,447 >> Reporter: CROSLEY GREEN ADMITS HE WAS NO ANGEL, BUT HE 230 00:12:45,481 --> 00:12:48,861 HAD NO HISTORY OF VIOLENT CRIME. 231 00:12:48,895 --> 00:12:52,551 >> I THINK HE WAS JUST AN EASY PICK, "WE'RE GOING TO PUT 232 00:12:52,586 --> 00:12:53,793 SOMEBODY IN JAIL FOR THIS." 233 00:12:53,826 --> 00:12:57,309 >> Reporter: GREEN WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING, 234 00:12:57,344 --> 00:13:03,309 ROBBERY AND MURDER DESPITE NO DIRECT EVIDENCE LINKING HIM TO 235 00:13:03,344 --> 00:13:04,517 CHIP'S SHOOTING. 236 00:13:04,551 --> 00:13:08,931 >> THERE WERE NO FINGERPRINTS OF CROSLEY GREEN OR ANY THIRD 237 00:13:08,965 --> 00:13:10,965 PERSON ON THE-- THE TRUCK. 238 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 NOT ONE SINGLE FINGERPRINT. 239 00:13:35,033 --> 00:13:38,724 >> THERE WAS NO CASE AGAINST CROSLEY GREEN. 240 00:13:38,758 --> 00:13:39,447 THERE WAS NO CASE. 241 00:13:39,481 --> 00:13:42,000 IT WAS A ONE-WITNESS I.D. CASE. 242 00:13:42,033 --> 00:13:46,102 >> Reporter: IN AUGUST OF 1990, CROSLEY GREEN WENT ON TRIAL FOR 243 00:13:46,136 --> 00:13:48,172 THE MURDER OF CHIP FLYNN. 244 00:13:48,206 --> 00:13:53,931 THE CASE HINGED ON THE TESTIMONY OF KIM HALLOCK, THE STATE'S STAR 245 00:13:53,965 --> 00:13:56,965 WITNESS, WHO IDENTIFIED GREEN AS THE BLACK MAN WHO ATTACKED THE 246 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,240 COUPLE. 247 00:13:58,274 --> 00:14:02,033 DEFENSE ATTORNEY KEITH HARRISON: >> THAT'S THE WEAKEST KIND OF 248 00:14:02,067 --> 00:14:05,517 CASE WHERE THE ONLY EVIDENCE YOU HAVE IS SOMEBODY SAID, "THAT GUY 249 00:14:05,551 --> 00:14:06,793 DID IT." 250 00:14:06,826 --> 00:14:09,793 >> Reporter: THE STATE CLAIMED THERE WERE ALSO SHOEPRINTS FOUND 251 00:14:09,826 --> 00:14:11,067 AT HOLDER PARK. 252 00:14:11,102 --> 00:14:13,654 PROSECUTOR CHRISTOPHER WHITE, NOW RETIRED, SAID A DOG FOLLOWED 253 00:14:13,688 --> 00:14:18,136 THE SCENT OF THOSE PRINTS TO THE VICINITY OF A HOUSE WHERE ONE OF 254 00:14:18,172 --> 00:14:22,136 GREEN'S SISTERS LIVED. 255 00:14:22,172 --> 00:14:24,172 WHITE SPOKE WITH US IN 2015. 256 00:14:24,206 --> 00:14:26,136 >> THE SHOE IMPRESSIONS WERE FOLLOWED FROM THE SITE WHERE THE 257 00:14:26,172 --> 00:14:32,344 TRUCK WAS PARKED, SUPPORTING WHAT KIM SAID ABOUT THERE BEING 258 00:14:32,379 --> 00:14:34,654 A THIRD PERSON THERE, A BLACK MALE WHO ABDUCTED THEM AND DID 259 00:14:34,688 --> 00:14:35,895 THESE THINGS. 260 00:14:35,931 --> 00:14:40,344 >> Reporter: THOSE SHOEPRINTS, HOWEVER, WERE NEVER LINKED TO 261 00:14:40,379 --> 00:14:42,102 CROSLEY GREEN. 262 00:14:42,136 --> 00:14:43,965 BUT THE PROSECUTION ALSO HAD THREE WITNESSES, ALL WITH 263 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:50,102 CRIMINAL PROBLEMS OF THEIR OWN, WHO CLAIMED CROSLEY CONFESSED. 264 00:14:50,136 --> 00:14:53,826 ONE WAS CROSLEY'S OWN SISTER, SHEILA. 265 00:14:53,861 --> 00:14:58,067 THE DEFENSE ARGUED THAT CROSLEY COULDN'T HAVE KILLED FLYNN 266 00:14:58,102 --> 00:15:00,274 BECAUSE HE HAD AN ALIBI. 267 00:15:00,309 --> 00:15:02,895 CROSLEY SAYS HE WAS SEEN AT THE TIME OF THE MURDER BY MULTIPLE 268 00:15:02,931 --> 00:15:10,136 WITNESSES AT A PARTY TWO MILES AWAY, BUT HIS FORMER ATTORNEY 269 00:15:10,172 --> 00:15:12,240 ONLY CALLED ONE TO TESTIFY. 270 00:15:12,274 --> 00:15:15,206 AND ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1990, AN ALL-WHITE JURY CONVICTED CROSLEY 271 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:20,067 GREEN OF KIDNAPPING, ROBBERY AND MURDER. 272 00:15:20,102 --> 00:15:26,136 HE WAS SENTENCED TO DIE IN FLORIDA'S ELECTRIC CHAIR. 273 00:15:26,172 --> 00:15:29,551 HI, CROSLEY. 274 00:15:29,586 --> 00:15:30,344 I'M ERIN MORIARTY WITH CBS. 275 00:15:30,379 --> 00:15:34,136 I FIRST MET CROSLEY GREEN IN 1999. 276 00:15:34,172 --> 00:15:36,240 WHAT'S IT LIKE BEING HERE ON DEATH ROW? 277 00:15:36,274 --> 00:15:38,102 >> IT'S HELL. 278 00:15:38,136 --> 00:15:42,102 IT'S HELL TO ME BECAUSE I'M HERE FOR A CRIME I DIDN'T COMMIT. 279 00:15:42,136 --> 00:15:46,102 >> Reporter: A TEAM OF LAWYERS FROM CROWELL & MORING, LED BY 280 00:15:46,136 --> 00:15:50,067 KEITH HARRISON AND JEANE THOMAS, TOOK CROSLEY'S CASE PRO BONO. 281 00:15:50,102 --> 00:15:53,033 THEY SAY JURORS NEVER HEARD THE REAL STORY. 282 00:15:53,067 --> 00:15:55,931 >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ALL OF THE FACTS, YOU SEE THAT THE 283 00:15:55,965 --> 00:15:58,240 STATE WANTED TO ACHIEVE A CERTAIN RESULT, AND THEY 284 00:15:58,274 --> 00:16:00,274 MANUFACTURED EVIDENCE. 285 00:16:00,309 --> 00:16:03,895 THEY COERCED WITNESSES TO LIE. 286 00:16:03,931 --> 00:16:06,172 >> Reporter: EVEN BEFORE THE TRIAL, KIM HALLOCK'S ACCOUNT HAD 287 00:16:06,206 --> 00:16:09,274 SERIOUS INCONSISTENCIES. 288 00:16:09,309 --> 00:16:12,274 SHE TOLD POLICE THAT THE ASSAILANT HAD MANAGED TO STEER 289 00:16:12,309 --> 00:16:16,102 CHIP'S TRUCK, SHIFT GEARS, ALL WHILE HOLDING A GUN ON THEM. 290 00:16:16,136 --> 00:16:21,895 AND YET, SHE TOLD CHIP'S PARENTS A VERY DIFFERENT STORY. 291 00:16:21,931 --> 00:16:24,240 >> SHE WAS HAVING TO SHIFT THE GEARS FOR HIM. 292 00:16:24,274 --> 00:16:28,551 HE WOULD JUST MASH THE CLUTCH, AND SHE WOULD SHIFT THE GEARS. 293 00:16:28,586 --> 00:16:29,758 HE WAS MAKING HER DO THAT. 294 00:16:29,793 --> 00:16:33,758 >> Reporter: KIM CHANGED OTHER PARTS OF HER STORY, AS WELL. 295 00:16:33,793 --> 00:16:36,240 ACCORDING TO THIS POLICE REPORT FROM THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING, 296 00:16:36,274 --> 00:16:42,102 SHE TOLD A DEPUTY THE ASSAILANT TOLD HERTO TIE CHIP'S HANDS. 297 00:16:42,136 --> 00:16:48,240 BUT JUST HOURS LATER, IN HER TAPED INTERVIEW: 298 00:16:48,274 --> 00:16:50,102 >> Reporter: THOSE INCONSISTENCIES, WOULD THAT HAVE 299 00:16:50,136 --> 00:16:52,000 CONCERNED YOU? 300 00:16:52,033 --> 00:16:54,102 >> WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHO TIED HIM? 301 00:16:54,136 --> 00:16:56,172 >> Reporter: YES, AND WHO SHIFTED THE TRUCK. 302 00:16:56,206 --> 00:16:58,102 >> OF COURSE IT WOULD, IF SHE WAS INCONSISTENT. 303 00:16:58,136 --> 00:17:00,102 ANY INCONSISTENCIES. 304 00:17:00,136 --> 00:17:04,792 >> Reporter: AND YET, ANOTHER SERIOUS INCONSISTENCY: KIM'S 305 00:17:04,826 --> 00:17:08,758 DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSAILANT'S GUN MATCHED A SEMI-AUTOMATIC. 306 00:17:08,792 --> 00:17:12,034 SHE SAID THAT WHEN SHE DROVE AWAY, LEAVING CHIP AT THAT 307 00:17:12,067 --> 00:17:14,172 GROVE, SHE HEARD FIVE TO SIX GUNSHOTS. 308 00:17:14,205 --> 00:17:18,136 BUT NO SHELL CASINGS WERE RECOVERED AT THE SCENE, AND THE 309 00:17:18,172 --> 00:17:22,136 ONLY BULLET FOUND WAS THE ONE THAT KILLED CHIP. 310 00:17:22,172 --> 00:17:26,136 YOUR OWN EXPERT SAID THAT, IN FACT, THE BULLET FOUND IN CHIP 311 00:17:26,172 --> 00:17:29,517 FLYNN COULD'VE COME FROM HIS OWN GUN. 312 00:17:29,550 --> 00:17:30,136 DID YOU FIND ANOTHER WEAPON? 313 00:17:30,172 --> 00:17:31,378 >> WELL, NO. 314 00:17:31,413 --> 00:17:33,413 >> Reporter: DID YOU EVER FIND ANOTHER SHELL CASING TO MATCH 315 00:17:33,448 --> 00:17:34,550 THAT WEAPON? 316 00:17:34,586 --> 00:17:37,172 >> NO, AND WE WOULDN'T IF, IN FACT, HE WAS SHOOTING A 317 00:17:37,205 --> 00:17:38,103 REVOLVER. 318 00:17:38,136 --> 00:17:39,378 YOU UNDERSTAND THAT. 319 00:17:39,413 --> 00:17:42,136 >> Reporter: BUT, IN FACT, DID YOU FIND ANY OTHER BULLET HOLES? 320 00:17:42,172 --> 00:17:46,103 >> BULLET HOLES? 321 00:17:46,136 --> 00:17:48,275 NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF. 322 00:17:51,309 --> 00:17:54,103 >> Reporter: BUT THAT STATEMENT WAS CONTRADICTED BY THE 323 00:17:54,136 --> 00:17:56,517 EVIDENCE. 324 00:17:56,550 --> 00:18:00,309 INVESTIGATORS FOUND NO GUNSHOT RESIDUE ON CHIP FLYNN'S HANDS. 325 00:18:00,344 --> 00:18:02,758 >> THE FACT THAT HIS WERE TESTED AND DID NOT SHOW ANY GUNSHOT 326 00:18:02,792 --> 00:18:05,862 RESIDUE CONRADICTS HER STORY. 327 00:18:05,895 --> 00:18:08,034 AND I TOTALLY DON'T BELIEVE SOMEONE COULD ACTUALLY JUMP OUT 328 00:18:08,067 --> 00:18:10,172 OF THAT TRUCK AND SHOOT A GUN BEHIND THEIR BACK WITH THEIR 329 00:18:10,205 --> 00:18:12,275 HANDS TIED, ANYWAY. 330 00:18:12,309 --> 00:18:15,758 >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS CASE, IT IS ALL CIRCUMSTANTIAL. 331 00:18:15,792 --> 00:18:18,172 I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE HAD A STRONGER CASE, BUT IT IS WHAT IT 332 00:18:18,205 --> 00:18:20,723 IS. 333 00:18:20,758 --> 00:18:22,654 >> Reporter: AS FOR THOSE SHOEPRINTS AT THE PARK, 334 00:18:22,689 --> 00:18:26,136 CRIMINALIST LISA DIMEO, WHO HELPED CROSLEY'S DEFENSE TEAM, 335 00:18:26,172 --> 00:18:30,136 TOLD US THAT THE DIAGRAM SHOWN AT TRIAL CONTRADICTS THE ACTUAL 336 00:18:30,172 --> 00:18:33,103 CRIME SCENE VIDEO. 337 00:18:33,136 --> 00:18:36,240 >> THESE SHOEPRINTS AFTER PROCEEDING WEST WILL THEN 338 00:18:36,275 --> 00:18:39,344 CONTINUE ON AROUND JUST TO THE OUTSIDE OF THIS FENCE. 339 00:18:39,378 --> 00:18:43,895 >> Reporter: IF THESE WERE THE TRACKS OF THE ASSAILANT, THEY 340 00:18:43,931 --> 00:18:46,413 SHOULD END WHERE THE TRUCK WAS PARKED, AROUND HERE. 341 00:18:46,448 --> 00:18:50,240 BUT, IN FACT, DIMEO SAYS THEY CONTINUE PAST THE TRUCK, ALONG 342 00:18:50,275 --> 00:18:56,931 THE FENCE-- AS YOU JUST HEARD-- AND APPEAR TO LEAVE THE PARK. 343 00:18:56,964 --> 00:19:00,309 HOW CAN THEY BELONG TO THE ASSAILANT IF, IN FACT, HE GOT IN 344 00:19:00,344 --> 00:19:02,172 THE TRUCK BACK HERE? 345 00:19:02,205 --> 00:19:03,586 THEY COULDN'T. 346 00:19:03,619 --> 00:19:05,481 >> NO. 347 00:19:05,517 --> 00:19:06,758 NO, THEY COULDN'T. 348 00:19:06,792 --> 00:19:10,172 >> Reporter: THE TRAIL OF PRINTS LEAVING HOLDER PARK IS MISSING 349 00:19:10,205 --> 00:19:12,172 FROM THE DIAGRAM. 350 00:19:12,205 --> 00:19:15,723 THIS DIAGRAM SUPPORTS KIM HALLOCK'S STORY, BUT THIS 351 00:19:15,758 --> 00:19:18,103 DIAGRAM DOESN'T MATCH THE EVIDENCE AT THE SCENE? 352 00:19:18,136 --> 00:19:19,000 >> CORRECT. 353 00:19:19,034 --> 00:19:23,619 THIS WAS NECESSARY TO MAKE HER STORY FIT. 354 00:19:23,654 --> 00:19:28,586 >> Reporter: WHAT'S MORE, EVERY ONE OF THE THREE WITNESSES WHO 355 00:19:28,619 --> 00:19:34,205 TESTIFIED THAT CROSLEY GREEN CONFESSED, RECANTED AFTER TRIAL. 356 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,654 >> THERE'S A PATTERN THAT SUPPORTS THE FACT THAT THESE 357 00:19:36,689 --> 00:19:40,136 FOLKS WERE COERCED. 358 00:19:40,172 --> 00:19:46,000 >> Reporter: WHEN A SISTER TESTIFIES AGAINST HER OWN 359 00:19:46,034 --> 00:19:48,240 BROTHER AND SAYS HE CONFESSED, IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT COULD 360 00:19:48,275 --> 00:19:48,654 BE COERCED. 361 00:19:48,689 --> 00:19:50,136 >> ABSOLUTELY. 362 00:19:50,172 --> 00:19:54,136 SHE RECANTED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. 363 00:19:54,172 --> 00:19:58,586 >> Reporter: WE TRACKED DOWN SHEILA GREEN IN 1999. 364 00:19:58,619 --> 00:20:01,550 WHAT DID THEY SAY WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU DIDN'TTESTIFY AGAINST 365 00:20:01,586 --> 00:20:02,344 YOUR BROTHER? 366 00:20:02,378 --> 00:20:04,862 >> I WOULD NEVER SEE MY KIDS AGAIN. 367 00:20:04,895 --> 00:20:08,240 >> Reporter: SHE TOLD US SHE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO LIE ON THE 368 00:20:08,275 --> 00:20:09,826 STAND. 369 00:20:09,862 --> 00:20:11,792 DID CROSLEY EVER TELL YOU THAT HE KILLED CHIP? 370 00:20:11,826 --> 00:20:14,103 >> I NEVER EVEN TALKED TO CROSLEY. 371 00:20:14,136 --> 00:20:17,378 HE NEVER TOLD ME THAT. 372 00:20:17,413 --> 00:20:20,481 BASICALLY, THEY TOLD ME THAT THIS WAS MY LAST CHANCE TO HELP 373 00:20:20,517 --> 00:20:22,275 MYSELF BECAUSE I WAS ALREADY CONVICTED. 374 00:20:22,309 --> 00:20:26,103 >> Reporter: BUT THIS IS YOUR OWN BROTHER, SHEILA. 375 00:20:26,136 --> 00:20:29,931 >> HE WILL UNDERSTAND. 376 00:20:29,964 --> 00:20:30,550 >> Reporter: YOU THINK HE WILL? 377 00:20:30,586 --> 00:20:33,448 >> YES. 378 00:20:33,481 --> 00:20:34,103 HE WILL. 379 00:20:34,136 --> 00:20:36,205 HE KNEW I DID IT. 380 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:36,758 [ CRYING] 381 00:21:04,034 --> 00:21:08,000 >> FLORIDA HAD A LONG HISTORY OF BEING ENGAGED IN SLAVERY, IN THE 382 00:21:08,034 --> 00:21:10,000 PLANTATION ECONOMY. 383 00:21:10,034 --> 00:21:13,448 THAT HAS PASSED ITSELF ON TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM HERE IN 384 00:21:13,481 --> 00:21:15,000 THIS STATE. 385 00:21:15,034 --> 00:21:17,103 >> Reporter: KENNETH NUNN, A PROFESSOR AT THE LAW SCHOOL AT 386 00:21:17,136 --> 00:21:21,103 THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, SAYS THE ODDS WERE STACKED AGAINST 387 00:21:21,136 --> 00:21:24,378 CROSLEY GREEN IN THAT FLORIDA COURTROOM. 388 00:21:24,413 --> 00:21:27,205 >> I WOULD SAY THAT CROSLEY GREEN'S CASE IS A MISCARRIAGE OF 389 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:28,344 JUSTICE. 390 00:21:28,378 --> 00:21:33,067 >> IF YOU READ THE TRIAL TRANSCRIPT, THE PROSECUTOR WAS 391 00:21:33,103 --> 00:21:39,205 USING RACE TO FILL THE GAPS IN THE EVIDENCE. 392 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:45,067 >> Reporter: DURING TRIAL, THE DEFENDANT'S RACE WAS REFERRED TO 393 00:21:45,103 --> 00:21:45,344 140 TIMES. 394 00:21:49,826 --> 00:21:53,448 >> SHE ACCUSES A BLACK PERSON OF COMMITTING THIS CRIME. 395 00:21:53,481 --> 00:21:57,067 WHO ARE THEY GOING TO BELIEVE? 396 00:21:57,103 --> 00:22:01,136 >> Reporter: AND WHAT HAS DEFINED THIS CASE FROM THE VERY 397 00:22:01,172 --> 00:22:05,103 BEGINNING IS THAT KIM HALLOCK WAS TREATED AS A VICTIM, NEVER 398 00:22:05,136 --> 00:22:07,000 AS A POSSIBLE SHOOTER. 399 00:22:07,034 --> 00:22:09,103 >> EVERYBODY ON THE SCENE IS A SUSPECT UNTIL THEY'RE NOT. 400 00:22:09,136 --> 00:22:13,103 EVERY SINGLE PERSON IS TESTED FOR GUNSHOT RESIDUE. 401 00:22:13,136 --> 00:22:15,172 THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED HERE. 402 00:22:15,205 --> 00:22:19,792 >> Reporter: TO THISDAY, FIRST RESPONDERS DIANE CLARKE AND MARK 403 00:22:19,826 --> 00:22:24,067 RIXEY QUESTION WHY BREVARD COUNTY DETECTIVES FAILED TO DO 404 00:22:24,103 --> 00:22:27,000 EVEN A BASIC INVESTIGATION OF HALLOCK. 405 00:22:27,034 --> 00:22:32,862 KIM HALLOCK WAS TAKEN IN AND QUESTIONED AT 4:30, BUT NOT 406 00:22:32,895 --> 00:22:34,862 RECORDED UNTIL 8:20. 407 00:22:34,895 --> 00:22:35,826 >> RIGHT, RIGHT. 408 00:22:35,862 --> 00:22:38,136 >> Reporter: AND WHAT DOES THAT SAY TO YOU? 409 00:22:38,172 --> 00:22:40,826 >> WELL, SHE HAD TIME TO GET HER STORY THE WAY SHE WANTED IT. 410 00:22:40,862 --> 00:22:42,758 SHE WAS NOT A SUSPECT. 411 00:22:42,792 --> 00:22:47,517 >> Reporter: DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE THAT MAYBE 412 00:22:47,550 --> 00:22:48,826 KIM HALLOCK WASN'T TELLING THE TRUTH? 413 00:22:48,862 --> 00:22:50,758 >> WELL, OF COURSE IT DID. 414 00:22:50,792 --> 00:22:52,826 >> Reporter: FORMER PROSECUTOR CHRISTOPHER WHITE. 415 00:22:52,862 --> 00:22:55,723 THEN, WHY WASN'T SHE EVER INVESTIGATED? 416 00:22:55,758 --> 00:22:56,931 WHY WAS SHE NEVER A SUSPECT? 417 00:22:56,964 --> 00:22:59,654 >> WHAT WAS-- WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE-- WHAT DO YOU MEAN? 418 00:22:59,689 --> 00:23:02,792 >> Reporter: NO G.S.R. TAKEN OF HER HANDS? 419 00:23:02,826 --> 00:23:03,931 WHY NOT? 420 00:23:03,964 --> 00:23:04,895 >> I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS OR WASN'T AT THIS POINT. 421 00:23:04,931 --> 00:23:06,136 >> Reporter: THERE WASN'T. 422 00:23:06,172 --> 00:23:09,344 WHY WEREN'T PICTURES TAKEN OF HER HANDS, HER ARMS, TO SEE IF 423 00:23:09,378 --> 00:23:10,931 SHE HAD ANY INJURIES? 424 00:23:10,964 --> 00:23:12,895 >> I GUESS THEY COULD'VE DONE MORE EXAMINATION. 425 00:23:12,931 --> 00:23:14,586 I'LL GIVE YOU THAT, OKAY? 426 00:23:14,619 --> 00:23:16,862 >> Reporter: CROSLEY GREEN'S LAWYER, KEITH HARRISON, FINDS IT 427 00:23:16,895 --> 00:23:18,136 MIND-BOGGLING. 428 00:23:18,172 --> 00:23:22,826 >> CHIP FLYNN HAD BROKEN UP WITH KIM HALLOCK. 429 00:23:22,862 --> 00:23:23,689 HE WAS SEEING ANOTHER WOMAN. 430 00:23:23,723 --> 00:23:25,103 KIM HALLOCK WAS VERY UPSET ABOUT THAT. 431 00:23:25,136 --> 00:23:28,067 THAT'S THE OLDEST MOTIVE IN THE BOOK. 432 00:23:28,103 --> 00:23:28,862 >> Reporter: JEALOUSY? 433 00:23:28,895 --> 00:23:30,654 >> JEALOUSY. 434 00:23:30,689 --> 00:23:34,205 >> Reporter: STILL, WHITE TOOK KIM HALLOCK AT HER WORD. 435 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,862 >> YOU'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND, IT'S KIND OF A SMALL COMMUNITY 436 00:23:36,895 --> 00:23:38,000 HERE IN TITUSVILLE. 437 00:23:38,034 --> 00:23:43,654 KIM HALLOCK LIVED AT THE-- IN THE AREA WHERE I LIVED. 438 00:23:43,689 --> 00:23:47,517 I DON'T SEE HOW THERE'S ANYTHING HERE CONCRETE TO TELL ANYBODY 439 00:23:47,550 --> 00:23:48,758 THAT KIM HALLOCK LIED. 440 00:23:48,792 --> 00:23:50,964 >> Reporter: BUT THERE WERE THOSE OBVIOUS RED FLAGS WITH HER 441 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,654 STORY. 442 00:23:55,689 --> 00:23:59,103 THERE WAS NO MOON ON THE NIGHT CHIP FLYNN WAS SHOT. 443 00:23:59,136 --> 00:24:00,895 IT WAS COMPLETELY DARK IN THAT ORANGE GROVE. 444 00:24:00,931 --> 00:24:04,895 >> BASED ON HER TESTIMONY, SHE SAID SHE DIDN'T GET A REALLY 445 00:24:04,931 --> 00:24:06,136 GOOD LOOK AT HIM. 446 00:24:06,172 --> 00:24:08,895 >> Reporter: YET, KIM HALLOCK CHOSE GREEN OUT OF THIS PHOTO 447 00:24:08,931 --> 00:24:13,067 LINE-UP, A FLAWED LINE-UP PROFESSOR NUNN SAYS THAT IS NO 448 00:24:13,103 --> 00:24:16,862 LONGER ALLOWED UNDER FLORIDA'S CURRENT LAWS. 449 00:24:16,895 --> 00:24:21,517 >> YOU CAN'T TELL THE WITNESS THAT THE-- THE SUSPECT IS IN THE 450 00:24:21,550 --> 00:24:24,931 BATCH, AND THAT HAPPENED IN THIS CASE. 451 00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:28,586 YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PHOTOGRAPH MATCHES ALL THE OTHER 452 00:24:28,619 --> 00:24:29,792 PHOTOGRAPHS. 453 00:24:29,826 --> 00:24:33,000 HIS HEAD IS SMALLER THAN THE OTHER ONES, SO HE STANDS OUT. 454 00:24:33,034 --> 00:24:35,517 >> Reporter: WOULD YOU DO THIS TODAY? 455 00:24:35,550 --> 00:24:36,862 >> WELL, NO, NO. 456 00:24:36,895 --> 00:24:38,103 IDEALLY, I WOULD NOT. 457 00:24:38,136 --> 00:24:40,862 >> Reporter: COULD SHE HAVE PICKED THE WRONG PERSON? 458 00:24:40,895 --> 00:24:44,862 >> [ SIGHS] I DON'T THINK SHE DID,YOU KNOW? 459 00:24:44,895 --> 00:24:47,895 WAS SHE GUESSING MORE THAN SHE WAS SURE? 460 00:24:47,931 --> 00:24:49,103 I COULDN'T TELL YOU FOR SURE. 461 00:24:49,136 --> 00:24:51,000 THAT STILL LEAVES YOU WITH THE ISSUE OF WHETHER OR NOT IT'S 462 00:24:51,034 --> 00:24:53,205 CROSLEY, AND YOU HAVE ARGUMENTS PRO AND CON ABOUT THAT. 463 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,826 BUT THE ONE THING I'M SURE OF, BASED ON THE EVIDENCE IN THIS 464 00:24:56,862 --> 00:24:58,240 CASE, IT WASN'TKIM HALLOCK. 465 00:24:58,275 --> 00:25:00,309 >> SHE WAS THE ONLY OTHER ONE THERE. 466 00:25:00,344 --> 00:25:01,550 WHO ELSE WOULD'VE DONE IT? 467 00:25:01,586 --> 00:25:07,000 THE ONLY WAY ALL THE FACTS ARE RECONCILED IS IF SHE SHOT HIM. 468 00:25:07,034 --> 00:25:08,895 I TOLD EVERYBODY I RAN INTO WHO HAD ANY INTEREST IN IT I THOUGHT 469 00:25:08,931 --> 00:25:11,136 SHE DID IT. 470 00:25:11,172 --> 00:25:11,931 I TOLD THE HOMICIDE SERGEANT. 471 00:25:11,964 --> 00:25:16,723 I TOLD THE HOMICIDE INVESTIGATOR. 472 00:25:16,758 --> 00:25:19,550 >> Reporter: AND FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE SHOOTING, BOTH RIXEY 473 00:25:19,586 --> 00:25:21,275 AND CLARKE MET WITH PROSECUTOR CHRISTOPHER WHITE. 474 00:25:21,309 --> 00:25:24,895 THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE HE KNEW OF THEIR SUSPICIONS OF KIM 475 00:25:24,931 --> 00:25:27,000 HALLOCK. 476 00:25:27,034 --> 00:25:28,826 AND HOW DID CHRIS WHITE TAKE THAT INFORMATION? 477 00:25:28,862 --> 00:25:31,792 >> HE WAS DISMISSED, DISMISSIVE. 478 00:25:31,826 --> 00:25:34,550 >> I SAID TO HIM, "SHE IS INVOLVED, AND I DON'T BELIEVE 479 00:25:34,586 --> 00:25:35,654 IT'S THE PERSON YOU ARRESTED." 480 00:25:35,689 --> 00:25:38,758 I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT IT AFTERWARDS. 481 00:25:38,792 --> 00:25:43,240 >> I THINK THAT THEY GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT, SHE PULLED THE GUN OUT 482 00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:45,000 OF THE GLOVE BOX, AND EITHER INTENTIONALLY OR UNINTENTIONALLY 483 00:25:45,034 --> 00:25:47,689 SHOT HIM. 484 00:25:47,723 --> 00:25:50,275 THEY FREAK OUT, "I DON'T WANT TO GET IN TROUBLE, WE'VE GOT TO 485 00:25:50,309 --> 00:25:52,862 COME UP WITH A STORY, LET'S MAKE UP THIS STORY." 486 00:25:52,895 --> 00:25:55,448 >> Reporter: WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE THEIR WORD SERIOUSLY? 487 00:25:55,481 --> 00:26:00,240 >> I REVIEWED ALL THE EVIDENCE THAT WE HAD WITH THAT HYPOTHESIS 488 00:26:00,275 --> 00:26:01,448 IN MIND. 489 00:26:01,481 --> 00:26:04,792 DO THEY GIVE ME CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT KIM HALLOCK MAY HAVE 490 00:26:04,826 --> 00:26:05,240 COMMITTED THIS MURDER? 491 00:26:05,275 --> 00:26:07,448 MY ANSWER IS NO. 492 00:26:07,481 --> 00:26:09,034 >> Reporter: YOU'RE THATSURE THAT CROSLEY GREEN IS INNOCENT? 493 00:26:09,067 --> 00:26:12,895 >> I WOULD BET MYLIFE ON IT, YES. 494 00:26:12,931 --> 00:26:16,895 >> Reporter: BUT IN 2000, 11 YEARS AFTER CHIP FLYNN'S MURDER, 495 00:26:16,931 --> 00:26:23,931 THE STATE CLAIMED IT HAD MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST GREEN: TWO TINY 496 00:26:23,964 --> 00:26:27,034 BODY HAIRS ALLEGEDLY FOUND IN FLYNN'S TRUCK. 497 00:26:27,067 --> 00:26:28,481 THEY TESTED THEM FOR D.N.A. 498 00:26:28,517 --> 00:26:30,826 >> MATTER OF FACT, I WANTED THEM TO TEST IT. 499 00:26:30,862 --> 00:26:32,862 I KNEW I HADN'T BEEN IN THAT TRUCK. 500 00:26:32,895 --> 00:26:36,240 I NEVER BEEN IN THAT TRUCK. 501 00:26:36,275 --> 00:26:37,205 >> THERE WAS SUFFICIENT D.N.A. 502 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,758 THERE TO OBTAIN A RESULT USING M.T.A. D.N.A. 503 00:26:40,792 --> 00:26:44,862 >> Reporter: THAT D.N.A., MITOCHONDRIAL, CANNOT BE USED TO 504 00:26:44,895 --> 00:26:48,862 IDENTIFY A SPECIFIC PERSON; IT CAN ONLY IDENTIFY BROAD FAMILY 505 00:26:48,895 --> 00:26:52,862 RELATIONS, AND CROSLEY GREEN COULD NOT BE EXCLUDED FROM THAT 506 00:26:52,895 --> 00:26:54,205 GROUP. 507 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:55,964 >> IT'S NOT A MATCH. 508 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,344 THE MITOCHONDRIAL D.N.A. TEST CANNOT DEFINITIVELY SAY, "THIS 509 00:27:00,378 --> 00:27:01,862 D.N.A. IS THIS INDIVIDUAL'S D.N.A." 510 00:27:01,895 --> 00:27:08,792 CROSLEY'S MATERNAL RELATIVES, FOR EXAMPLE, WOULD BE IN THIS 511 00:27:08,826 --> 00:27:10,103 GROUP THAT IS NOT EXCLUDED. 512 00:27:10,136 --> 00:27:12,000 >> Reporter: IN FACT, CROSLEY'S BROTHER, O'CONNER, BELIEVES THE 513 00:27:12,034 --> 00:27:13,481 HAIRS COULD BE HIS. 514 00:27:13,517 --> 00:27:17,758 HE HAPPENED TO BE A FRIEND OF THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THE TRUCK. 515 00:27:17,792 --> 00:27:20,067 >> IT'S POSSIBLE BECAUSE I DROVE THE TRUCK KIND OF REGULAR. 516 00:27:20,103 --> 00:27:23,309 I AIN'T-- I'M NOT SAYING I DROVE THE TRUCK ONE OR TWO TIME. 517 00:27:23,344 --> 00:27:25,619 I DONE DROVE THE TRUCK SEVERAL TIME. 518 00:27:25,654 --> 00:27:27,517 >> Reporter: ARE YOU AT ALL TROUBLED BY THE FACT THAT 519 00:27:27,550 --> 00:27:29,517 CROSLEY GREEN COULD NOT BE ELIMINATED? 520 00:27:29,550 --> 00:27:30,448 >> THAT'S NOTHING. 521 00:27:30,481 --> 00:27:31,826 THAT'S NOT EVIDENCE. 522 00:27:31,862 --> 00:27:32,826 THAT IS NOTEVIDENCE. 523 00:27:32,862 --> 00:27:38,000 IT DOES NOT TIE HIM SPECIFICALLY TO THAT TRUCK. 524 00:27:38,034 --> 00:27:39,964 >> Reporter: YOU HAVE THAT ONE HAIR THAT COULD'VE COME FROM 525 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,895 SOMEONE ELSE, HIS BROTHER. 526 00:27:41,931 --> 00:27:43,136 >> UH-HUH. 527 00:27:43,172 --> 00:27:46,723 >> Reporter: IS THERE ANY OTHER PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, ANY OTHER 528 00:27:46,758 --> 00:27:48,413 PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, ANYTHING THAT CONNECTS CROSLEY GREEN TO 529 00:27:48,448 --> 00:27:50,067 THIS CASE? 530 00:27:50,103 --> 00:27:55,378 >> WELL, I-- I GUESS THE SIMPLE ANSWER TO THAT IS NO. 531 00:27:55,413 --> 00:28:02,034 >> Reporter: IN 2009, AFTER 19 YEARS FACING EXECUTION, CROSLEY 532 00:28:02,067 --> 00:28:06,550 GREEN'S ATTORNEYS WON A MAJOR VICTORY. 533 00:28:06,586 --> 00:28:12,000 BECAUSE OF AN ERROR IN SENTENCING, GREEN WAS TAKEN OFF 534 00:28:12,034 --> 00:28:14,136 DEATH ROW. 535 00:28:14,172 --> 00:28:19,586 >> I FELT REAL GOOD AT THAT TIME, BUT I KNOW I HAVE ANOTHER 536 00:28:19,619 --> 00:28:20,826 HUNDRED YARDS TO GO. 537 00:28:20,862 --> 00:28:24,034 >> Reporter: BUT CROSLEY GREEN'S REQUEST FOR A NEW TRIAL WAS 538 00:28:24,067 --> 00:28:28,000 DENIED EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THE EVIDENCE WAS NOW IN QUESTION AND 539 00:28:28,034 --> 00:28:32,000 ALL THOSE WITNESSES WHO TESTIFIED AGAINST HIM SAID THEY 540 00:28:32,034 --> 00:28:33,723 LIED ON THE STAND. 541 00:28:33,758 --> 00:28:36,000 HAVE YOU EVER HAD A CASE WHERE THREE WITNESSES HAVE RECANTED 542 00:28:36,034 --> 00:28:37,448 AND LIED? 543 00:28:37,481 --> 00:28:38,103 HAVE YOU EVER HAD A CASE? 544 00:28:38,136 --> 00:28:38,723 THREE? 545 00:28:38,758 --> 00:28:39,862 >> YOU KNOW, I NEVER HAVE. 546 00:28:39,895 --> 00:28:41,481 >> Reporter: THAT DOESN'T TROUBLE YOU? 547 00:28:41,517 --> 00:28:45,586 >> NOT COMING FROM THOSEPEOPLE WITH THOSETIES TO THE GREEN 548 00:28:45,619 --> 00:28:50,344 FAMILY, AND THE GREEN FAMILY BEING WHAT IT IS. 549 00:28:50,378 --> 00:28:53,413 NO, IT DOESN'T TROUBLE ME A GREAT DEAL. 550 00:28:53,448 --> 00:28:58,550 >> Reporter: BUT IN AN ODD TWIST OF FATE, CHRISTOPHER WHITE 551 00:28:58,586 --> 00:29:01,654 PROVIDED JUST WHAT CROSLEY GREEN'S DEFENSE TEAM HAD BEEN 552 00:29:01,689 --> 00:29:02,136 WAITING FOR. 553 00:29:02,172 --> 00:29:04,034 >> I WAS SHOCKED. 554 00:29:04,067 --> 00:29:06,034 I KNEW IMMEDIATELY THAT THIS WAS A GAME CHANGER. 555 00:29:21,034 --> 00:29:21,895 >> I'M READY TO GO HOME. 556 00:29:21,931 --> 00:29:25,172 HOPEFULLY, I GET THAT CHANCE TO GO HOME. 557 00:29:25,205 --> 00:29:28,240 I'VE BEEN WITHOUT MY FAMILY FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW. 558 00:29:28,275 --> 00:29:32,344 >> Reporter: CROSLEY GREEN WAS JUST 19 WHEN HIS PARENTS DIED 559 00:29:32,378 --> 00:29:36,550 AND HE ASSUMED THE ROLE OF "PAPA" TO HIS LARGE FAMILY. 560 00:29:36,586 --> 00:29:38,895 WHICH IS WHY CROSLEY'S MURDER CONVICTION WAS SO DEEPLY FELT BY 561 00:29:38,931 --> 00:29:44,895 HIS OLDEST CHILD, SHUMA, HIS BROTHER, O'CONNER, AND SISTERS 562 00:29:44,931 --> 00:29:46,067 SHIRLEY AND DEGRAH. 563 00:29:46,103 --> 00:29:50,240 >> I HOPE AND I PRAY THAT ONE DAY PAPA WILL BE SET FREE, 564 00:29:50,275 --> 00:29:53,205 BECAUSE HE DIDN'T DO WHAT THEY SAY HE DID. 565 00:29:53,240 --> 00:30:02,067 >> I WORRY ABOUT HIM A LOT, AND IT'S BREAKING THE FAMILY. 566 00:30:02,103 --> 00:30:03,550 IT'S BREAKING THE FAMILY DOWN. 567 00:30:03,586 --> 00:30:06,826 >> Reporter: SHUMA WAS 16 AND HIS BROTHER, GASTON, WAS SIX 568 00:30:06,862 --> 00:30:10,034 WHEN CROSLEY WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH. 569 00:30:10,067 --> 00:30:12,826 >> IT DAMAGED US. 570 00:30:12,862 --> 00:30:13,723 I GOT REBELLIOUS. 571 00:30:13,758 --> 00:30:16,205 I JUST WENT TO GETTING IN TROUBLE. 572 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,172 NO SENSE OF DIRECTION BECAUSE MY DAD WAS GONE. 573 00:30:20,205 --> 00:30:25,000 >> I NEVER WAS WITH MY SONS WHEN THEY GREW UP, YOU KNOW, AND I 574 00:30:25,034 --> 00:30:26,275 GOT GRANDKIDS NOW. 575 00:30:26,309 --> 00:30:28,723 I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME I GOT LEFT ON EARTH MYSELF, BUT THE 576 00:30:28,758 --> 00:30:34,034 LITTLE TIME I WILL HAVE LEFT, IF I'M OUT THERE, IT WOULD BE WITH 577 00:30:34,067 --> 00:30:35,550 THEM. 578 00:30:35,586 --> 00:30:38,034 >> Reporter: BUT CROSLEY GREEN WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO MAKE UP 579 00:30:38,067 --> 00:30:40,172 LOST TIME WITH TWO OF HIS SISTERS. 580 00:30:40,205 --> 00:30:46,034 THEY DIED WHILE HE'S BEEN IN PRISON. 581 00:30:46,067 --> 00:30:48,862 >> BRENDA AND TINA. 582 00:30:48,895 --> 00:30:50,034 THAT'S BEEN TOUGH. 583 00:30:50,067 --> 00:30:52,172 THAT'S BEEN TOUGH. 584 00:30:52,205 --> 00:30:58,034 THEY HAVE BEEN WITH ME ALL WAY UP TILL THE TIME THEY DIED. 585 00:30:58,067 --> 00:31:02,067 >> Reporter: YOU MISS THEM? 586 00:31:02,103 --> 00:31:03,689 >> YEAH. 587 00:31:03,723 --> 00:31:08,034 >> Reporter: AS FOR SHEILA, THE SISTER WHO HELPED PUT HIM ON 588 00:31:08,067 --> 00:31:10,067 DEATH ROW? 589 00:31:10,103 --> 00:31:13,205 HE FORGAVE HER YEARS AGO. 590 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,034 DOES SHE FEEL A LOT OF GUILT? 591 00:31:14,067 --> 00:31:15,275 >> OF COURSE SHE DO. 592 00:31:15,309 --> 00:31:22,034 BUT THAT'S MY SISTER, AND I WANT HER TO KNOW THAT I LOVE HER, 593 00:31:22,067 --> 00:31:28,205 NO MATTER WHAT. 594 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:35,240 I'M NOT ANGRY AT HER, OKAY? 595 00:31:35,275 --> 00:31:39,931 >> Reporter: WITH THE WITNESS RECANTATIONS, THE ONLY PERSON 596 00:31:39,964 --> 00:31:42,240 WHO STILL CONNECTS CROSLEY TO THE CRIME IS KIM HALLOCK. 597 00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:45,964 AS YOU SIT HERE TODAY, DO YOU BELIEVE CROSLEY GREEN IS THE MAN 598 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:46,378 WHO SHOT CHIP FLYNN? 599 00:31:46,413 --> 00:31:48,034 >> YES, I DO. 600 00:31:48,067 --> 00:31:49,240 YES, I DO. 601 00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:52,172 >> Reporter: BUT AS IT TURNS OUT, CHRISTOPHER WHITE MADE A 602 00:31:52,205 --> 00:31:57,067 DECISION IN 1989 THAT WOULD ULTIMATELY TURN THE TIDE FOR 603 00:31:57,103 --> 00:31:58,000 CROSLEY GREEN. 604 00:31:58,034 --> 00:32:01,550 >> "MARK AND DIANE SUSPECT THE GIRL DID IT. 605 00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:02,931 SHE CHANGED HER STORY A COUPLE OF TIMES." 606 00:32:02,964 --> 00:32:06,067 >> Reporter: WHITE TOOK THESE NOTES AFTER HIS MEETING WITH 607 00:32:06,103 --> 00:32:10,067 MARK RIXEY AND DIANE CLARKE WHEN THEY TOLD HIM THEIR SUSPICIONS 608 00:32:10,103 --> 00:32:14,067 ABOUT KIM HALLOCK. 609 00:32:14,103 --> 00:32:18,067 >> "ONE THING WAS, SHE TIED HIS HANDS BEHIND HIS BACK. 610 00:32:18,103 --> 00:32:22,619 SHE NEVER ASKED HOW THE VICTIM WAS WHILE AT THE HOMICIDE. 611 00:32:22,654 --> 00:32:26,067 SHE WOULDN'T GO DOWN THERE TO THE SCENE. 612 00:32:26,103 --> 00:32:29,378 WHY WOULDN'T THE GUY SAY WHO SHOT HIM?" 613 00:32:29,413 --> 00:32:32,964 >> Reporter: WHITE NEVER TURNED THOSE NOTES OVER TO CROSLEY'S 614 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,172 ORIGINAL LAWYER. 615 00:32:34,205 --> 00:32:38,136 >> THIS IS THE EVIDENCE OF INNOCENCE THAT WAS HIDDEN BY THE 616 00:32:38,172 --> 00:32:39,517 PROSECUTOR. 617 00:32:39,550 --> 00:32:42,034 >> Reporter: WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN YOU FIRST READ 618 00:32:42,067 --> 00:32:45,240 THOSE NOTES? 619 00:32:45,275 --> 00:32:46,034 >> I WAS SHOCKED. 620 00:32:46,067 --> 00:32:48,964 I REALLY COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. 621 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,034 THEY CAN'T JUST HIDE THAT EVIDENCE. 622 00:32:50,067 --> 00:32:52,172 THEY CAN'T COVER IT UP. 623 00:32:52,205 --> 00:32:56,034 THEY HAVE TO DISCLOSE IT TO THE DEFENSE. 624 00:32:56,067 --> 00:32:58,067 >> Reporter: DEFENSE ATTORNEY JEANE THOMAS SAYS THOSE NOTES, 625 00:32:58,103 --> 00:33:02,448 WHICH INCLUDED INCONSISTENCIES IN KIM HALLOCK'S STORY, WOULD 626 00:33:02,481 --> 00:33:04,240 HAVE BEEN CRUCIAL AT TRIAL. 627 00:33:04,275 --> 00:33:10,067 >> IT GOES TO THE HEART OF THE DEFENSE THEORY OF THE CASE THAT 628 00:33:10,103 --> 00:33:14,067 THERE WAS NO BLACK MAN AT THE SCENE OF THIS CRIME; THAT IT WAS 629 00:33:14,103 --> 00:33:18,067 THESE TWO TEENAGERS, THAT THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT, AND THEN THERE 630 00:33:18,103 --> 00:33:22,067 WAS A STORY THAT WAS MADE UP AFTER THE FACT. 631 00:33:22,103 --> 00:33:26,034 >> THOSE NOTES WOULD HAVE HAD A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON THE CASE. 632 00:33:26,067 --> 00:33:30,034 >> Reporter: AND FOR THAT REASON, IN JULY 2018, A FEDERAL 633 00:33:30,067 --> 00:33:34,550 JUDGE RULED THAT BY WITHHOLDING THOSE NOTES, PROSECUTORS 634 00:33:34,586 --> 00:33:38,034 VIOLATED CROSLEY GREEN'S RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL. 635 00:33:38,067 --> 00:33:41,136 HIS CONVICTION WAS OVERTURNED. 636 00:33:41,172 --> 00:33:46,034 >> IT WAS A MIRACLE THAT FINALLY THERE WAS A COURT THAT SAID, 637 00:33:46,067 --> 00:33:47,931 "YES, HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WEREVIOLATED." 638 00:33:47,964 --> 00:33:50,034 >> Reporter: WHEN HIS CONVICTION WAS OVERTURNED, WHAT DID YOU 639 00:33:50,067 --> 00:33:51,862 THINK WOULD HAPPEN? 640 00:33:51,895 --> 00:33:53,550 >> MAN, I THOUGHT THAT'D MY BROTHER WOULD BE HOME. 641 00:33:53,586 --> 00:33:56,862 >> Reporter: BUT CROSLEY DIDN'T COME HOME BECAUSE THE STATE 642 00:33:56,895 --> 00:34:02,067 APPEALED, ARGUING THAT THE NOTES THAT PROSECUTOR WHITE WITHHELD 643 00:34:02,103 --> 00:34:06,067 WOULDN'T HAVE CHANGED THE OUTCOME OF THE ORIGINAL TRIAL. 644 00:34:06,103 --> 00:34:10,068 CROSLEY WAS HELD IN PRISON, WAITING FOR THE COURT OF APPEALS 645 00:34:10,103 --> 00:34:11,206 TO DECIDE. 646 00:34:11,240 --> 00:34:15,724 >> HONESTLY, I DID NOT THINK IT WOULD TAKE THIS LONG. 647 00:34:15,757 --> 00:34:18,068 >> Reporter: BUT THEN, THE CORONAVIRUS INVADED THE PRISON 648 00:34:18,103 --> 00:34:21,413 WHERE CROSLEY GREEN WAS HELD. 649 00:34:21,447 --> 00:34:24,655 HIS SITUATION BECAME EVEN MORE PRECARIOUS AFTER HE WAS 650 00:34:24,688 --> 00:34:28,206 DIAGNOSED WITH LATENT TUBERCULOSIS. 651 00:34:28,240 --> 00:34:34,034 IN MARCH OF 2021, CROSLEY'S ATTORNEYS FILED A MOTION FOR HIS 652 00:34:34,068 --> 00:34:40,034 IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 653 00:34:40,068 --> 00:34:42,034 >> THIS IS THE DAY THAT WE LONGEDFOR, OH, GOD. 654 00:34:42,068 --> 00:34:46,034 AND WE THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR OPENING THE DOORS THAT MEN HAVE 655 00:34:46,068 --> 00:34:47,862 SHUT TO US, TO HEAVEN. 656 00:34:47,896 --> 00:34:50,034 FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THOSE THAT YOU GAVE US FAVORS WITH, 657 00:34:50,068 --> 00:34:54,034 FATHER; FOR YOU BRINGING OUR BROTHER HOME, CROSLEY GREEN. 658 00:34:54,068 --> 00:34:58,034 >> I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT I WAS THINKING OR WHAT I SAW OR HOW I 659 00:34:58,068 --> 00:35:08,585 FELT. 660 00:35:08,619 --> 00:35:10,481 I WAS JUST LOOKING AROUND, WONDERING, IS-- IS THIS REAL? 661 00:35:10,516 --> 00:35:17,585 [ LAUGHTER] YOU KNOW, AT ONE POINT, NOW, I 662 00:35:17,619 --> 00:35:20,000 REALLY WONDERED, IS THIS FOR REAL? 663 00:35:20,034 --> 00:35:21,378 >> THANK YOU, JESUS! 664 00:35:21,413 --> 00:35:23,034 THANK YOU! 665 00:35:23,068 --> 00:35:24,413 THANK YOU, BROTHER. 666 00:35:36,034 --> 00:35:40,896 >> Reporter: NOW THAT CROSLEY GREEN IS HOME, HIS VERY LARGE 667 00:35:40,931 --> 00:35:43,034 AND LOVING FAMILY HAS DESCENDED UPON HIM. 668 00:35:43,068 --> 00:35:48,896 EVERYBODY WANTS A PIECE OF THE MAN THEY KNOW AS "PAPA GREEN." 669 00:35:48,931 --> 00:35:52,965 >> I THOUGHT MAYBE IT WOULD BE THE KIDS THAT REALLY WANT TO BE 670 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,000 WITH ME OR WANT TO TALK WITH ME. 671 00:35:54,034 --> 00:35:56,896 THE GROWNUPS BE MAKING THEM KIDS GET OUT THE WAY! 672 00:35:56,931 --> 00:36:00,965 THEY PUSHED THE KIDS TO THE SIDE. 673 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,688 THEY WANT TO BE FIRST. 674 00:36:02,724 --> 00:36:04,862 >> Reporter: CROSLEY HAS A LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO. 675 00:36:04,896 --> 00:36:10,757 SO MANY RELATIVES WEREN'T EVEN BORN WHEN HE WENT TO PRISON. 676 00:36:10,793 --> 00:36:13,103 >> IF IT WASN'T FOR MY FAMILY, I-- I WOULDN'T BE HERE. 677 00:36:13,137 --> 00:36:19,000 MY SISTER, CELESTINE, SHE ALWAYS TOLD ME, "DON'T GIVE UP. 678 00:36:19,034 --> 00:36:20,137 YOUR DAY GOING TO COME." 679 00:36:20,172 --> 00:36:22,724 I USED TO ALWAYS SAY, "ALL RIGHT, GIRL, WHEN I GET OUT, 680 00:36:22,757 --> 00:36:24,931 WE'RE GOING TO DO THINGS," YOU KNOW. 681 00:36:24,965 --> 00:36:28,931 BUT THAT DAY NEVER CAME. 682 00:36:28,965 --> 00:36:30,103 SHE DIED. 683 00:36:30,137 --> 00:36:32,550 >> Reporter: CROSLEY'S SISTER, CELESTINE, IS BURIED IN A 684 00:36:32,585 --> 00:36:36,965 CEMETERY JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM WHERE HE'S STAYING, BUT HE CAN'T 685 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,688 VISIT HER GRAVE OR GO MOST ANYWHERE ELSE WITHOUT SPECIAL 686 00:36:40,724 --> 00:36:43,068 PERMISSION FROM HIS PROBATION OFFICER. 687 00:36:43,103 --> 00:36:45,481 >> I WAS TOLD I COULDN'T GO TO THE MAILBOX. 688 00:36:45,516 --> 00:36:49,378 >> Reporter: HE'S FREE BUT RIGHT NOW CAN'T VENTURE BEYOND HIS 689 00:36:49,413 --> 00:36:51,862 BROTHER-IN-LAW'S PROPERTY LINE. 690 00:36:51,896 --> 00:36:53,034 SHOW ME, TAKE ME A LITTLE WHERE YOU CAN GO. 691 00:36:53,068 --> 00:36:54,724 HOW FAR? 692 00:36:54,757 --> 00:36:55,516 HERE? 693 00:36:55,550 --> 00:36:57,896 >> ABOUT RIGHT-- ABOUT RIGHT HERE. 694 00:36:57,931 --> 00:37:04,344 >> Reporter: CROSLEY CALLS IT HIS "12 YARDS OF FREEDOM" AND 695 00:37:04,378 --> 00:37:05,516 SHOWED ME HIS NEW JAILER. 696 00:37:05,550 --> 00:37:08,965 >> HERE IT IS RIGHT HERE, THIS ANKLE BRACELET RIGHT HERE. 697 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,481 >> IT'S CHALLENGING FOR HIM. 698 00:37:12,516 --> 00:37:15,000 CROSLEY HAS MANY, MANY GRANDCHILDREN, MOST OF WHOM 699 00:37:15,034 --> 00:37:16,275 HE'S-- HE'S NEVER MET. 700 00:37:16,309 --> 00:37:19,655 HE WANTS TO TAKE THEM TO A PARK AND GO FISHING AND TEACH THEM 701 00:37:19,688 --> 00:37:25,793 HOW TO FISH AND, YOU KNOW, SIT UNDER A TREE AND TELL STORIES. 702 00:37:25,827 --> 00:37:27,619 AND HE-- HE CAN'T. 703 00:37:27,655 --> 00:37:28,931 HE CAN'T DO THAT. 704 00:37:28,965 --> 00:37:31,619 >> Reporter: AT LEAST NOT UNTIL THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS HANDS 705 00:37:31,655 --> 00:37:34,137 DOWN ITS DECISION. 706 00:37:34,172 --> 00:37:35,619 >> BUT HE IS AT HOME. 707 00:37:35,655 --> 00:37:39,068 HE IS WITH FAMILY, AND LOTS OF SOUNDS OF LAUGHTER AND-- AND JOY 708 00:37:39,103 --> 00:37:39,896 IN THAT HOUSE. 709 00:37:39,931 --> 00:37:42,896 AND SO, HE'S IN A MUCH BETTER PLACE. 710 00:37:42,931 --> 00:37:46,619 >> Reporter: IF THE COURT DOES RULE IN CROSLEY'S FAVOR, THE 711 00:37:46,655 --> 00:37:51,619 STATE OF FLORIDA WILL HAVE 45 DAYS TO DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO 712 00:37:51,655 --> 00:37:55,585 RECHARGE AND RETRY CROSLEY GREEN FOR THE MURDER OF CHIP FLYNN. 713 00:37:55,619 --> 00:37:59,275 AND THERE'S ONLY ONE PERSON THAT CONNECTS HIM TO THIS, RIGHT? 714 00:37:59,309 --> 00:37:59,619 KIM HALLOCK? 715 00:37:59,655 --> 00:38:03,655 THAT'S IT? 716 00:38:03,688 --> 00:38:05,413 >> THAT'S-- THAT'S RIGHT. 717 00:38:05,447 --> 00:38:07,655 >> SHE'S THE STAR WITNESS FOR THE STATE. 718 00:38:07,688 --> 00:38:11,655 IN FACT, IN A LOT OF WAYS, SHE IS THE ONLYWITNESS FOR THE 719 00:38:11,688 --> 00:38:13,688 STATE. 720 00:38:13,724 --> 00:38:16,000 >> Reporter: KIM HALLOCK HAS NOT RESPONDED TO OUR REPEATED 721 00:38:16,034 --> 00:38:19,655 REQUESTS FOR AN INTERVIEW. 722 00:38:19,688 --> 00:38:21,585 I MEAN, IF THERE IS A NEW TRIAL, IT-- IT'S NOT GOING TO JUST BE 723 00:38:21,619 --> 00:38:26,516 CROSLEY GREEN WHO'S ON TRIAL, IS IT? 724 00:38:26,550 --> 00:38:29,827 >> WELL, IN-- IN ANY TRIAL, THE CREDIBILITY OF THE WITNESSES 725 00:38:29,862 --> 00:38:34,793 IS-- IS A KEY FACTOR. 726 00:38:34,827 --> 00:38:38,827 YOU CAN BE SURE THAT SOME OF THE INCONSISTENCIES IN KIM HALLOCK'S 727 00:38:38,862 --> 00:38:40,034 STORY WOULD OF COURSE BE FEATURED. 728 00:38:40,068 --> 00:38:47,344 >> IF THERE IS A SECOND TRIAL, BELIEVE ME, IT WILL BE VERY, 729 00:38:47,378 --> 00:38:48,585 VERY DIFFERENT. 730 00:38:48,619 --> 00:38:51,965 THE JURY'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO HEAR ALLTHE EVIDENCE. 731 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,585 >> Reporter: RETIRED BREVARD COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF MARK RIXEY 732 00:38:55,619 --> 00:38:59,550 AND SGT. DIANE CLARKE BOTH SAY THAT IF THERE'S A NEW TRIAL, 733 00:38:59,585 --> 00:39:03,172 THEY WILL TAKE THE WITNESS STAND FOR CROSLEY. 734 00:39:03,206 --> 00:39:03,655 >> IN A MINUTE. 735 00:39:03,688 --> 00:39:05,862 IN A HEARTBEAT. 736 00:39:05,896 --> 00:39:11,655 >> THERE'S SO MUCH THAT WE KNOW NOW THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW THEN 737 00:39:11,688 --> 00:39:15,931 THAT I WILL ALSO BE TESTIFYING FOR THE DEFENSE. 738 00:39:15,965 --> 00:39:19,655 >> Reporter: BUT THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE THAT THE APPEALS COURT 739 00:39:19,688 --> 00:39:23,655 WILL SIDE WITH THE STATE, REINSTATE CROSLEY'S CONVICTION, 740 00:39:23,688 --> 00:39:26,793 AND SEND HIM BACK TO PRISON. 741 00:39:26,827 --> 00:39:28,034 >> CROSLEY UNDERSTANDS THAT. 742 00:39:28,068 --> 00:39:31,655 IT WAS REALLY TOUGH, THOUGH, TO EXPLAIN THAT TO HIS FAMILY. 743 00:39:31,688 --> 00:39:35,619 YOU KNOW, THAT WAS MET WITH DISBELIEF, BUT IT IS A REAL-- 744 00:39:35,655 --> 00:39:36,896 IT'S-- IT'S A REAL POSSIBILITY. 745 00:39:36,931 --> 00:39:39,619 >> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU DO YOU IF THE COURT DOES RULE AGAINST 746 00:39:39,655 --> 00:39:41,827 CROSLEY? 747 00:39:41,862 --> 00:39:43,481 >> WELL, WE'LL KEEP FIGHTING. 748 00:39:43,516 --> 00:39:46,931 WE WILL TAKE THE CASE TO THE SUPREME COURT IF THAT BECOMES 749 00:39:46,965 --> 00:39:47,724 NECESSARY. 750 00:39:47,757 --> 00:39:50,413 WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO STOP. 751 00:39:50,447 --> 00:39:53,827 >> Reporter: DOES THAT ANKLE BRACELET ALSO REMIND YOU THAT 752 00:39:53,862 --> 00:39:55,757 YOUR TIME HOME MIGHT BE TEMPORARY? 753 00:39:55,793 --> 00:39:57,757 >> IT DOES. 754 00:39:57,793 --> 00:39:59,619 I-- I'VE GOT TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, IT DOES. 755 00:39:59,655 --> 00:40:02,724 BUT I REALLY DON'T BELIEVE I'M GOING BACK. 756 00:40:02,757 --> 00:40:05,793 I REALLY BELIEVE THAT, DEEP DOWN IN MY SOUL, I'M NOT GOING BACK 757 00:40:05,827 --> 00:40:07,585 TO PRISON. 758 00:40:07,619 --> 00:40:11,585 >> THIS CASE IS REALLY BIGGER THAN JUST ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ONE 759 00:40:11,619 --> 00:40:15,585 MAN WHO'S BEEN WRONGFULLY CONVICTED. 760 00:40:15,619 --> 00:40:17,827 THIS CASE GOES TO FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS IN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 761 00:40:17,862 --> 00:40:22,309 SYSTEM. 762 00:40:22,344 --> 00:40:24,137 >> Reporter: NO ONE KNOWS EXACTLY HOW LONG IT WILL BE 763 00:40:24,172 --> 00:40:26,793 BEFORE THERE'S A DECISION. 764 00:40:26,827 --> 00:40:29,793 IT COULD BE DAYS, COULD BE MONTHS. 765 00:40:29,827 --> 00:40:34,481 BUT UNTIL THEN, CROSLEY IS ENJOYING FAMILY AND FREEDOM... 766 00:40:34,516 --> 00:40:35,757 >> NOW, COME ON OVER HERE. 767 00:40:35,793 --> 00:40:38,793 >> Reporter: ...AND THE LITTLE THINGS THAT THE REST OF US TAKE 768 00:40:38,827 --> 00:40:43,447 FOR GRANTED, LIKE A NAP ON THE SOFA OR A HOT MEAL. 769 00:40:43,481 --> 00:40:46,240 YOU COULD NEVER MAKE ANY DECISIONS FOR YOURSELF FOR 32 770 00:40:46,275 --> 00:40:47,516 YEARS. 771 00:40:47,550 --> 00:40:47,931 >> THAT'S RIGHT. 772 00:40:47,965 --> 00:40:49,757 THAT'S RIGHT. 773 00:40:49,793 --> 00:40:51,655 >> Reporter: IS THAT HARD GETTING USED TO? 774 00:40:51,688 --> 00:40:55,550 OR DOES IT JUST FEEL GREAT? 775 00:40:55,585 --> 00:40:58,585 >> IT JUST FEELS GREAT. 776 00:40:58,619 --> 00:41:03,344 I STILL WAKE UP AT THE SAME TIME I DID WHILE I WAS IN CALHOUN, 777 00:41:03,378 --> 00:41:04,619 AND YOU KNOW WHAT I DO? 778 00:41:04,655 --> 00:41:11,619 I WALK OUT THE DOOR AND LOOK UP AND SAY, "THANK GOD I'M FREE." 779 00:41:11,655 --> 00:41:15,585 THANK YOU, JESUS. 780 00:41:25,481 --> 00:41:26,034 Captioning sponsored by CBS Captioned by 781 00:41:27,034 --> 00:41:28,481 Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org 782 00:41:28,516 --> 00:41:29,447 >> THEY HAVE CHAPTERS ALL ACROSS AMERICA AND WERE AT THE CENTER 783 00:41:29,481 --> 00:41:31,585 OF THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. 784 00:41:31,619 --> 00:41:34,000 WHO ARE THE OATH KEEPERS? 785 00:41:34,034 --> 00:41:36,034 >> A LARGE PERCENTAGE HAVE TACTICAL TRAINING AND 786 00:41:36,068 --> 00:41:40,447 OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN EITHER THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT. 787 00:41:40,481 --> 00:41:43,481 >> "60 MINUTES," SUNDAY ON CBS.