0:00 Jerome: “I had a normal life, work, wife, kids. To go from ‘never being in trouble’ to looking at life.. just overwhelming.”
0:15 Jerome: “I was offered 50 years and that was the only plea deal they game, but at 50 years maybe in 44 I had no choice but 50 years or life sentence. I honestly didn’t think I was going to be out here. So I had already got my mind…”
0:30 Jerome: “set on not coming on. My outlook on the whole situation was kind of hopeless. Nobody gave me any assurance that things were going to be okay. And I met Kyle the first time, and read everything and he goes ‘this is an insult, what they offered you,’”
0:45 Jerome: “But they’re right, there was like a little hope that I needed. The more I got to meet y’all , it just brought comfort to me, you treated me as another person not just like another number. I believe it was Cindy that spoke to me.”
1:00 Jerome: “I remember one time she was like you wanna just sit here and talk for a bit?’ Just … somebody cared.”
1:15 Jerome: “The best outcome happened for me, you know. And that’s all that I had prayed for so I couldn’t say like ‘we should do this, you should..’ no. It happened how it was supposed to happen, and I’m thankful for them.”
1:30 Jerome: “Two Sundays ago, me and my boys went to church, we go to church before, all this, but I just took that for granted and then when I was in there incarcerated, that’s when I prayed for it all the time. Just like ‘God get me out so I could just do that one more time.’”
1:45 Jerome: “ I guess it took all of this to see I’m all you got. I just look at it through kind of faith perspective that God put his hands on the attorneys, everybody. Don’t give up, don’t give up faith, we don’t know what’s in store for us.”