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(18 Nov 2022) SHOTLIST
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New Orleans, Louisiana - 17 November 2022
1. Wide of Raymond Flanks walks down criminal courthouse steps as a free man for the first time since 1983.
ANNOTATION: A man who spent nearly four decades behind bars for a 1983 killing won his freedom Thursday.
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Flanks, exonerated former prisoner:
"Even though it was delayed justice, it was justice. Time and truth prevailed in this matter."
3. Wide shot of courthouse
4. Tight shot of Flanks' sweatshirt that reads "justice."
ANNOTATION: Attorneys and New Orleans prosecutors said evidence of inconsistencies in the only eyewitness's testimony was kept from the jury that convicted Raymond Flanks.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Flanks, Exonerated former prisoner:
"The public needed to see this evidence. When you withhold something like that and you convince a family that someone did something they didn't do. That's what I regret.""
6. Flanks seen hugging a member of his family.
ANNOTATION: Flanks had been arrested for the armed robbery of a grocery store when he was implicated in Martin Carnesi's shooting death.
7. Wide of Flanks talking with family
ANNOTATION: The first jury, in 1984, deadlocked even after being told the gun Flanks had when he was arrested for the grocery robbery was the murder weapon.
8. Wide of courthouse steps
ANNOTATION: That later turned out to be false, based on a 1985 examination of the weapon by a federal laboratory.
9. Tight of Flanks talking with family and legal team.
ANNOTATION: Prosecutors tried him again later in 1985, winning a first-degree murder conviction and life sentence.
10. Various of outside Orleans Parish Criminal Courthouse
ANNOTATION: The Innocence Project New Orleans, which advocated for Flanks' release, noted that the case involved "cross-racial identification."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Flanks, Exonerated former prisoner:
"Their efforts, this is why I'm able to be free today."
ANNOTATION: Experts say most wrongful convictions in New Orleans that involve withheld evidence involve Black defendants.
12. Wide of Flanks posing for a picture with family and legal team.
SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Flanks, Exonerated former prisoner:
"I think the system was designed to do what it's doing. When men of my color, when men are in poverty, when men can't have the resources to get the representation they need; I think they're ignored."
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STORYLINE:
A man who spent nearly four decades behind bars for a 1983 killing has won his freedom after New Orleans prosecutors joined defense lawyers in asking to have his conviction overturned.
Attorneys on both sides said evidence of inconsistencies in the only eyewitness's testimony was kept from the jury that convicted Raymond Flanks.
Their joint motion to vacate his conviction was approved Thursday morning.
Flanks was convicted in the December 1983 shooting death of Martin Carnesi during an armed robbery.
Carnesi's wife had identified Flanks as the killer. But her descriptions differed at trial from her earlier statements.
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