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When the Court of Criminal Appeals
of Texas...
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voted 9-0 against us,
I was a little upset about that.
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I felt we, A: Should have won...
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B: Certainly shouldn't have been
slapped so hard...
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with the unanimous decision against us.
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I was with my family in an ice-cream parlor...
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and the judge and his family
happened to come at the same time.
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And he came over to me
and made the comment...
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"I see where the Court of Criminal
Appeals gave me an 'A'...
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"in the Adams case."
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Our highest state appellate court...
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the Court of Criminal Appeals
in Austin affirmed the case, 9-0.
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Then it was reversed by the
United States Supreme Court, 8-1...
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When the Appellate Court reverses a case...
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they are never saying
the trial judge was right or wrong.
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They are saying
they disagree with the judge.
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You can't, for instance,
in the Adams appeals...
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say the appellate courts
were saying I was right or I was wrong.
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After all, if in Austin...
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in our state appeals court,
I was 9-0 correct...
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and in Washington, I was 1-8 incorrect.
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If you tally all those votes, I come out 10-8.
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Yet the case was reversed.
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Eight justices of the Supreme Court
were the first people to agree with me.
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They're the only people anywhere
that ever agreed about that statute...
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were eight justices of the Supreme Court.
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The Dallas Morning News
had a very nice front-page story...
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either the same day...
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or the day after the reversal was
announced by the Supreme Court...
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in which Henry Wade, the District Attorney...
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vowed a retrial of Randall Dale Adams...
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because there was no room
in his book for a cop-killer...