1:09:01
or for money.
1:09:04
When we went to court that day,
the District Attorney was hard-nosed.
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Wouldn't let me answer any questions.
1:09:10
He'd ask me questions,
but then he'd cut me off real short.
1:09:15
And that's when he said something
about my big fat nose.
1:09:18
If I'd kept my big fat nose
out of their business...
1:09:20
the Millers would be better off.
1:09:24
When I started to leave
out of the courtroom...
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he started laughing, like:
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"Didn't do you any good to get up here."
1:09:31
It really didn't. Didn't help the guy at all.
1:09:42
To the best of my recollection...
1:09:43
the brief conversations
I have had with Mr. Adams...
1:09:45
and they have been brief...
1:09:47
I don't even recall ever asking him,
or my having told me...
1:09:51
that he did not do it.
1:09:54
Because, for my purposes,
representing him on appeal...
1:09:58
it's totally irrelevant.
1:10:04
When the Court of Criminal Appeals
of Texas...
1:10:08
voted 9-0 against us,
I was a little upset about that.
1:10:12
I felt we, A: Should have won...
1:10:14
B: Certainly shouldn't have been
slapped so hard...
1:10:16
with the unanimous decision against us.
1:10:20
I was with my family in an ice-cream parlor...
1:10:24
and the judge and his family
happened to come at the same time.
1:10:28
And he came over to me
and made the comment...
1:10:33
"I see where the Court of Criminal
Appeals gave me an 'A'...
1:10:38
"in the Adams case."
1:10:39
Our highest state appellate court...
1:10:42
the Court of Criminal Appeals
in Austin affirmed the case, 9-0.
1:10:47
Then it was reversed by the
United States Supreme Court, 8-1...
1:10:51
When the Appellate Court reverses a case...
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they are never saying
the trial judge was right or wrong.
1:10:58
They are saying
they disagree with the judge.