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[Music] there's a stigma attached to people like us who come out publicly against their
fellow law enforcement officers this entire case scares me it shatters your foundation in your beliefs on our system
of law and justice it never goes away the night had happened it replays in the mind we don't know what happened that
night all we know is that Chip Flynn picked up his ex-girlfriend they had sex they smoked marijuana then
chips Lin got shot in the early morning hours of April 4th 1989 the police received a 911 call from Kim Halleck I
was dispatched almost immediately at this point we knew her black guy in white guy shooting at each other they
did eventually find chip Flynn lying in an abandoned Orange Grove he's been shot
I get a call shortly after 2 o'clock that he has died there was a statement taken from Kim Halleck
you don't see anybody else around shots were fired you don't see any shell casing and it just makes you wonder what
I don't believe a word she says I think it's completely fabricated it's unfortunately a classic case of what is
often referred to as a racial hoax which is a black guy did it so you get then called in by the prosecutor I told him I
thought you get it I said to him you know I think you need to take a close look at Kim Halleck were you at all
surprised when Crossley Green was charged with chip Flynn's murder it was a total shock this was like picking a
name out of a hat tell you some years ago I was charged with a murder the state essentially screwed him over you
remember this guy this is Crosley green back in 1999 hi Crosley I'm Erin Moriarty with CBS I didn't kill that
young man okay I'm telling you I keep Kennedy killer something I was really angry but I want the people to know that
I'm not destroyed I'm not down I'm not forgotten July 2018 we finally had a federal judge ruled
that Crosley green had been wrongfully and unconstitutionally convicted I was choked out I couldn't believe it
really our lost worries finally 1 1 1 round we're going on two years now since he got that decision
I think that's insane there wasn't enough of a travesty of an injustice before I actually think it's a tragedy
that he remains in prison

Did a young white woman cause a wrongful conviction by blaming a murder on a “black guy”? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports Saturday, April 18 at 10/9c on CBS.

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Brief Summary

Crosley Green's wrongful conviction for Chip Flynn's murder highlights racial bias and systemic failures in the justice system.

Key points

Crosley Green's Wrongful Conviction. Crosley Green was wrongfully convicted and finally exonerated after years in prison.

Episode highlights

Crosley Green's Wrongful ConvictionCrosley Green was wrongfully convicted and finally exonerated after years in prison.“I was choked out, I couldn't believe it.”2:56Apr 16, 2020

Episode quotes

This entire case scares me.

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