In November of 2002 at the tender age of 16, I was arrested and charged with being involved in the senseless murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards. At the time I was unaware of the severity of my situation and wholeheartedly believed the police had made a mistake
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Little did I know it, that cool November afternoon would be the last time I would be a free human being. Life as I knew it had come to a screeching halt and I had been forced to become a number, a slave, a statistic!
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You see unbeknown to me I was already being framed and my face was plastered all over the news and the front page of all the papers, as being a monster that needed to be thrown in a dungeon to rot for all of eternity.
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The district attorney/head prosecutor of Hennepin County Amy Klobuchar, had been under fire by the community of color in her district for the injustice and racist Minneapolis Police Department. she vowed to cause a change in these communities by giving harsh sentences to juvenilepic.twitter.com/mZ7dnWbLO0
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Needless to say I had just become a political pawn in her campaign to take the negative attention that she had been receiving for her racist, bias ways and her failure to address the terrible police brutality that was taking place on her watch.
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She set out to give the heartbroken people of Minneapolis a monster they could direct their frustrations and anger towards Transforming herself into the kind lady that aggressively pursued the juvenile gang banger that killed the 11-year old black girl locking him away foreverpic.twitter.com/uLPicKS7jJ
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The theory the prosecution used to convict me was there was a gang war in South Minneapolis between the Family MOB and Blood street gangs. The bloods saw Oliver an associate of the Family MOB gang and started shooting at him.
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Tyesha was struck and killed by a stray bullet that went through the wall of her home as she did her homework.pic.twitter.com/gf3NqA0jY8
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The detective Rick Zimmerman arrested the alleged intended victim Timothy Oliver. Leaving the scene of another shooting He was wanted for a semi-automatic firearm that was recovered from the Edwards crime scene, that the tenant said belonged to Oliver.
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Oliver told the detectives he had been the intended target in the Tyesha Edwards murder and that he had been standing outside the duplex when a car drove by occupied with Isaiah Tyson and Hans Williams.
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A few minutes later he heard gunshots and said they were aimed at him. He claimed this whole senseless act of violence was because he had been in blood neighborhood and they had mistaken him for a Family MOB gang member.
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This theory was false Oliver had shot at Hans a few weeks before and from what his family told investigators when asked Hans wasn't even a blood still this whole gang war theory played right into Amy Klobuchars agenda of "locking up the gangsters for killing the communities kids"
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She decided to ignore the facts and take Oliver's word. After giving this initial statement his story changed several times. Subsequently turning into him claiming I was the person that committed this crime and he saw me do it.
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he claimed to have heard the shots looked across the street where he was standing and saw me pointing a gun at him that would not discharge another lie that when thoroughly investigated proved to be impossible
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This is a copy of the crime scene photos revealing where the shooter was standing.pic.twitter.com/jSxRU75mWe
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It was impossible for him to have seen who was shooting at him. The state used so many tactics to paint me as a monster and create a story that would take attention off of all the injustice that was taking place in our judicial system
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I was tried by the media before I ever stepped foot in a courtroom My name was incorrect in court and throughout the media as Myron Burrell when my correct name is MYON.
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The district attorney lied about my age. They never certified me as an adult. Hennepin County Jail has my date of birth as 3/31/1985 I was born in 1986 They made it seem as though I was 17 years old and charged me as an adult without certifying me
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Once convicted I was sent to St. Cloud They housed me with the adults My sister Ianna had to show my birth certificate to prove I was a juvenile look me up on DOC website they have the correct date of birth However if you look me up on Hennepin Counties website they have 1985
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No onlooking witnesses at the scene of the crime identified me as being one of the men they saw that fatal day. They had no physical evidence linking me to this crime. The car the co-defendants drove to the crime was found and dusted for prints
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They said they didn't find my prints in the car The gun was never recovered. There were two coats found in the trunk of the car, they discover they belonged to Isaiah and Hans. One which was identified and described to the police by onlookers as the one Isaiah wore
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No one has ever said anything about them being tested for gunshot residual. I say that to say that they have me locked up for being the shooter but they know Isaiah wore the coat they found in the trunk of the car and it is known there was only one shooter
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At my first trial in 2003, I was convicted of several counts of 1st-degree murder. My lawyer David McCormick was on drugs and an alcoholic. My family and I were unaware of that information until after my trial when he was disbarred
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McCormick didn't hire an investigator to assist him with my case Which made it seem like everything the state presented was gold McCormick didn't call witnesses I asked him to call that could have alibied me
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Amy Klobuchar was successful in impeaching anyone who testified on my behalf with a record There were a few men that were locked in Hennepin County Jail with Isaiah who wrote statements saying Isaiah confessed to them that I was not there.pic.twitter.com/PisagyJhvS
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I was 17 years old sentenced to life in prison. I was brokenhearted and confused about how I could be convicted of a crime that I had nothing to do with and why no one ever stepped in to help or at the very least ask some questions
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After the trial, a member of the jury contacted WCCO to say he and a few other jury members were pressured into coming back with a guilty verdict. He also said he believed Minneapolis Department lied about the height of the wall/railing the person was shooting over
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He didn't believe I was tall enough to be shooting over the wall/railing. My lawyer put in a motion for a mistrial. However, it was denied.
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I was smacked with a crushing blow and forced to endure a pain that I wouldn't wish on anyone less than a month of my arrest my mother was killed in a fatal car crash on her way home from visiting me in the County Jail now I was really all alonepic.twitter.com/HMxGQ5O1Tk
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The district attorney Amy Klobuchar argued that because of my gang affiliation I was a threat to the sheriffs that would have to bring me to the service The crazy thing is I had never been in any gang files arrested with any gang members any violent crimes
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