WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:15.8240000" NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.500 There's a growing movement among NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:01.500 --> 00:00:03.758 prosecutors in the US to find wrongful NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:03.758 --> 00:00:05.518 convictions and overturn them rather NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:05.518 --> 00:00:07.182 than waiting for defense attorneys NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:07.182 --> 00:00:09.093 to fight for those people or for NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:09.093 --> 00:00:11.478 a judge to order them to do it. NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:13.538 It is taking the form of something NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:13.538 --> 00:00:14.770 called conviction review units, NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:14.770 --> 00:00:16.653 and now Minnesota is getting its own NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:16.653 --> 00:00:18.659 led by Attorney General Keith Ellison, NOTE Confidence: 0.8511702 00:00:18.660 --> 00:00:20.150 Carol Evans. Emily Haavik reports. NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:21.460 --> 00:00:23.518 Once we know what we should do, NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:26.157 we should do it and we shouldn't have to NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:27.630 have a judge ordering us NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:27.630 --> 00:00:30.276 to do it. If we know that it's right. NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:32.634 Keith Allison would like to see a change NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:32.634 --> 00:00:34.398 in the way Minnesota handles wrongful NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:35.596 convictions. The conviction Review NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:35.596 --> 00:00:37.091 Unit Board will review cases NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:37.091 --> 00:00:38.846 and if they determine that a NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:38.846 --> 00:00:39.974 conviction should be overturned, NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:39.980 --> 00:00:41.152 they'll ask the prosecutor NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:41.152 --> 00:00:42.324 to dismiss the complaint. NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:42.330 --> 00:00:43.800 One of the things I NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:46.860 hope to say is, say, look. NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:46.860 --> 00:00:49.236 We know that you are a good prosecutor. NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:51.207 We know that you are only trying NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:51.207 --> 00:00:53.239 to protect the public that you got NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:53.239 --> 00:00:55.470 into this for all the right reasons, NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:55.470 --> 00:00:57.846 and it's not going to hurt your credibility. NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:00:57.850 --> 00:01:00.226 To say that this person should get out. NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:01:00.230 --> 00:01:02.386 In fact, it might bolster your credibility NOTE Confidence: 0.86436725 00:01:02.386 --> 00:01:04.089 'cause you're the kind of person NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:04.090 --> 00:01:06.169 who's not afraid to admit a mistake. NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:06.170 --> 00:01:08.834 A high profile case is headed for the CR. NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:10.148 You soon Myon Burrell, NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:10.148 --> 00:01:12.110 convicted of murder at 16 years NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:12.174 --> 00:01:14.302 old for the 2002 death of 11 year NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:14.302 --> 00:01:16.321 old Tyesha Edwards hit by a stray NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:16.321 --> 00:01:18.420 bullet at her own dining room table. NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:18.420 --> 00:01:19.760 While doing her homework, NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:21.108 Burrell has maintained his NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:21.108 --> 00:01:22.119 innocence for years, NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:23.980 and he had his sentence commuted NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:23.980 --> 00:01:25.810 by the board of Pardons, NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:25.810 --> 00:01:27.664 but his lawyer plans to bring NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:27.664 --> 00:01:30.055 his case to the board to get NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:30.055 --> 00:01:31.860 the conviction on his record. NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:31.860 --> 00:01:33.444 Hennepin County Attorney Mike NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:33.444 --> 00:01:35.028 Freeman has maintained Burrell's NOTE Confidence: 0.8532787 00:01:35.028 --> 00:01:36.559 guilt consistently and he sits on NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.606 that board. The If you have NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:38.606 --> 00:01:40.600 a direct role in a case, NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:40.600 --> 00:01:43.072 that's a case that it makes sense to NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:43.072 --> 00:01:45.297 recuse yourself on that particular matter, NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:47.890 so I will tell you that Mike NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:47.890 --> 00:01:49.482 Freeman has been. Very fair, NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:49.482 --> 00:01:51.410 I don't think it's fair to ask him NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:51.468 --> 00:01:53.400 to surrender his honestly held view, NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:56.150 but I also think that it's fair to say well, NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:56.150 --> 00:01:58.350 if you have a dog in this fight. NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:01:58.350 --> 00:02:00.478 Let others who have a little bit NOTE Confidence: 0.8355919 00:02:00.478 --> 00:02:02.197 more detachment take a look at it. NOTE Confidence: 0.8475203 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:05.832 But his attorney says he hopes to have NOTE Confidence: 0.8475203 00:02:05.832 --> 00:02:07.756 an application filed early next week to NOTE Confidence: 0.8475203 00:02:07.756 --> 00:02:10.025 learn more about the fight to right past NOTE Confidence: 0.8475203 00:02:10.025 --> 00:02:11.819 wrongs of the criminal justice system. 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