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Thank you.

All right.

Everybody in here?

All right.

Good afternoon.

I'm Satana Deberry.

I'm the elected district attorney here in Durham County.

I'm just going to say a few introductory words,

and then I am going to throw it to some other folks just for follow -up questions.

Travis Swofford.

Travis will you raise your hand?

Travis is the PIO here for the Durham District Attorney's Office.

If you have follow -up questions, please make them to Travis.

He'll get you his email and his number.

And then Kanan Lawson.

Kanan, raise your hand.

Kanan is the PIO for the Chapel Hill Police Department.

If you have any follow -up questions, please direct them to Canaan.

Travis and Canaan will make sure that the questions get to the appropriate people.

So first, I want to say to all the families of missing and murdered

Indigenous women across this country,

this day has not come for you yet but I want you to know that we hope it does come for you.

This has been 14 years.

We have been very invested in making sure

that we found out who the other family in this country who is waiting to hear

and have some accountability and some justice.

I'd like to thank people in a list of in this list is in no particular order

it is just how it came to us

but everybody on this list has worked very hard on this case over years especially over the last five years

and we want to make sure

that they get the credit first to the Hedgepeth family who turned this case over to us,

believed in us, and held our feet to the fire.

We want to thank them for being here for the in my office and for the people in my office.

I want to thank the Chapel Hill Police Department, Chief Celisela Lehiu, Lieutenant Wesley House, Rodney Matthews.

I want to thank the SBI North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation who never let this case get cold,

kept it warm, and so we want to thank

Special Agent Phillip Stevens.

Where's Justin's name?

The special commendation of Justin Heimer, who, Justin has been our right hand in this investigation.

Without him reinvestigating this case over these last five years, we would not have been able to bring this to justice.

Justin, I want to personally thank you.

Thank you.

I can tell you that this has been a dream team to work with,

and I'm just glad that we got a little bit of justice for the family today.

To my prosecution team, Angela Garcia -Lamarca,

Brooke Stone, Lisa Coltrane, Charles Souls, Leo Jimenez, Jamaica Campbell.

These are the folks in our office who have worked on this tirelessly.

These three ADAs were, I promised the Hedgepeth family, the best that I could give them.

Angela is our cold case sexual assault prosecutor.

Brooks is our child sexual assault prosecutor.

And Lisa Coltrane, who has been on loan to us from the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys, is just a good old fashioned murder prosecutor.

And you saw that in that closing argument.

I want to thank Matt Coward,

MD, Lauren Smith, Ronald Smith & Associates who consulted and analyzed our latents.

Matt Marvin from Ronald Smith & Associates who analyzed the latents and was prepared to testify in rebuttal.

The Durham County Sheriff's Office, especially our bailiffs, Deputy Brooks,

Deputy Ogun, Deputy Legardo, who conducted the majority of our courtroom security details.

We could not have done this without them.

Jamaica McDonald, our Superior Court Clerk, Wanda Constantino, Carrie Rice, and Rebecca LeClaire,

who shared the court reporting duties.

Kimberly Spejos, who's the executive director of the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys

and made Lisa Coltrane available to us for this whole time.

And I forgot Tammy Tavares, who's also part of our prosecution team.

And at this point, I want to turn it over to Chief Leigh, who has some words.

Thank you.

Salisa Lehiu, Police Chief with the Town of Chapel Hill.

14 years ago, we began this investigation with one goal, justice for Faith and her family.

As we worked and what happened to Faith, we also learned who she was,

a kind, caring, vibrant young woman who brought light to so many lives.

Knowing who Faith was helped keep our investigators going through long days, months, and eventually years.

There were times when answers felt far away, but we kept working, knowing her family was waiting and that

Faith deserved the very best.

I want to thank our Chapel Hill Police Department team

and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation for the countless hours that they devoted to this case.

I know how much of themselves they put into this work, and I am proud of their dedication.

I am grateful to the Durham County District Attorney's Office and our partners across

North Carolina and beyond for their expertise, their care, and their commitment to seeing this case through.

To the jurors, thank you for your service and for the time and care you gave to considering the evidence.

To Connie and Roland and Valanda and Chad and Caleb and to all of Faith's loved ones, thank you for your strength,

your patience, and your trust over all of these years.

Thank you for allowing us to walk beside you.

The grace you have shown through so much pain will always stay with us and you'll always be family.

Today's guilty verdict brings accountability for Faith's death.

That matters and we have worked hard towards this day for a very long time.

But we know it cannot bring

Faith back, take away the pain of the last 14 years,

or give her loved ones the years and memories they should still have ahead with her.

We hope today brings some of the answers you have waited so long for, and we will continue to stand beside everyone.

Above all, today is about faith, the life she lived, the people she touched, and the future she deserved.

Hi, I am Rolanda Hedgepeth.

I am my only sister.

I have a list of people I'd like to thank.

First of all, I would like to thank God, our creator for today.

I would like to thank the prosecution team, Brooke Stone, Angela Garcia LaMarca,

Lisa Coltrane, the Durham County District Attorney's Office, and their wonderful staff.

The investigative team, Phillip Stevens,

Justin Heinrich, Charles Soule, Westhouse,

Chapel Hill Police Department, Matthews, Troy Smith, Chris Blue, Salisa Lahue,

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and all the officers and all their staff.

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We'd also like to thank the North Carolina Victims Assistance Network.

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We'd like to thank the Religious Coalition for a nonviolent Durham.

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We want to thank the jurors.

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We also would like to thank our churches who have helped us, prayed for us.

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We'd like to thank the Haliwa Saponi Indian tribe and all tribes who have supported us.

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We like to thank our family, community, our friends.

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We like to thank strangers who didn't even know us, who didn't know Faith.

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We want to thank everyone for their prayers, their messages, their monetary support through this.

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Thank you for never forgetting who

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Faith was and who she still is to all of us.

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She touched so many lives, not just ours.

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And through this tragedy, we've developed so many relationships with so many people.

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And all these people you see up here that aren't our beloved family are our family too.

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Just everybody's been really good to us, and we just want to say thank you to everyone.

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And please continue to pray for us.

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We still miss her every day.

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We're very strong, but we're also very weak at times.

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So she is missed every day.

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And if you didn't know her, you truly missed out on something.

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And I let my daughter speak.

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Wow.

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This is my third time speaking about faith in who she was.

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I reiterate everything that I've said about her this far.

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And along with everyone that my mom listed, I like to thank everybody who's respectfully kept face name out there,

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who's spoken about her, about her trial, about our family, about this case.

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I think she's touched the lives of so many people across

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North Carolina, across the nation, across the world.

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We've heard from people in other countries who have been touched by her story.

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I want to thank my family, everybody standing here on the left side of me.

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In times where it's been immensely difficult to be without her,

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we've all lifted each other up and held on to each other through every traumatic, difficult moment.

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That goes for the people behind me, for our extended family, for our friends, for the people who aren't in this room.

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I want to speak to all of the families and individuals who are victims of homicide,

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secondary victims of homicide, who are missing and murdered indigenous people, indigenous women, indigenous children.

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four or five indigenous women will experience violence in their lifetime and faith is one of them.

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Today we have seen justice for her and that fight will continue today and beyond through every appeal,

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through every trial, through anything that presents after this.

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But today we have a semblance of peace in that

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and I want to recognize every story that isn't able to be heard up here.

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Faith's case has been heard, has gotten this much attention.

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All of these cameras are here because of who she was, because she was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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So many families don't receive that and we're blessed and honored to be able to receive that and it's not without purpose.

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Um, and so I want to send our love and recognition out to all the families who are not on camera today,

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who will never see this sort of crowd appear for their people because those stories are just as important.

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Those people are just as important and everyone will not see justice.

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And that's a pain that no family should have to face.

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And so I want everyone to know that if you're not in front of here with us,

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if you, if your people will never be talked about through podcast through media on tick tock on social media,

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everywhere that that story still matters and it's still important.

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Your families and communities matter and what you are going through matters.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Mm -hmm.

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All righty.

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My name is Skylar.

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I'm Faith's other niece.

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And one thing in giving all the thanks, one person that I want to do thank is Faith herself.

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Because without Faith, the people who are not blood related to us up here with us wouldn't be here.

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She's brought a lot of people in our life.

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prior to her death and even after her death.

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We've gotten to know so many people who met her who were impacted by her death.

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And while it was so difficult for us to handle her passing, handle her murder, everybody that she met,

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everybody that she just came in contact with, even if she just saw you walking down the street and she gave you a smile,

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I'm sure they were impacted because she was just such a beautiful light, such a beautiful spirit.

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and she lives through us.

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My sister mentioned my little brothers, they talk about their auntie that they never got to meet, but they still miss her.

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They still love her and they wish that she was here.

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Faith has other nephews who grew up not knowing her and now who will never be held by his auntie.

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But because of her beautiful spirit, she will always live through us.

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So I thank her for just being such a great person, such an admirable person.

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Like she was just truly the best.

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And I'll close this out and also thanking people, everybody who supported us through the trial.

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We've had a lot of, like my mom said, strangers reach out to us to help us, to support us, just offering prayers.

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people from near and far all over America reached out to us.

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And so I thank you all.

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And today we have justice for faith.

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Like my sister said, the fight will always continue, but we will always have her back.

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We will always stay fighting and we will always have faith.

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I just want to say one more thing.

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After the verdict and everything come in and we were able to get up and hug and, I mean, it was just tears of joy.

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It was not tears of sadness.

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But Salisa said something to me that she was sorry that it took this long.

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over 14 years for justice.

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But I told her, don't be sorry because it's God's planning.

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I mean, you know, I thought when it happened, oh, we were going to have the answer soon.

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Nevertheless, it was over 14 years.

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But I say, everything has a purpose.

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and her death had a purpose and I think he has served its purpose

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because so many people like they said know her story

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so many people that just met her continue to love her and so

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it's all in his timing it's for his purpose

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and we don't know what that is but I just thank God

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that he decided that today was going to be the day

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and I just I'm just so thankful all these people that have supported us and loved us

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I mean it's just overwhelming I mean, they're our family now.

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They all, and we just love everybody, and we just thank everybody for everything, every prayer that has been lifted up.

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And I'm talking about people are praying.

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They are praying all the time for us.

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I'm just so grateful and thankful for his love that he has for us and just continue.

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I just want to continue to pray that my family, that we would continue to lift faith up and just,

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I mean, we can't lift her up above God, you know, because he is the creator and he knows us,

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he formed us before we were in the womb of our mothers.

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And so, and he knew our purpose and she served her purpose.

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It's hard, sometimes it's hard to say that, but she served her purpose because she reached so many people.

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And so that's about it.

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And I don't want them to ever think it took too long because it was God's purpose.

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This was the timing for that.

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So I'll thank you everybody.

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It's been a long day, but we're going to take a few questions really quickly.

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Anybody have some questions?

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Thank you so much and thank you to everybody and congratulations.

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Regarding, you know, the genealogy, which has become part and parcel of a lot of investigations today,

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tell us, someone could just tell us a little bit about

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that aha moment of putting that together it wasn't immediate because it didn't go right to North Carolina, it took a little more time.

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Can someone just give us a brief evaluation of the importance of that?

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Come on now.

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You're recruited.

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So it was a huge team effort, this case.

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Like I think what you hear from everybody that's come up here is how much we all work together.

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The investigative team the entire time, it wasn't just

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Chapel Hill or just SBI.

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It was really a team together.

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Even those two agencies working, we needed outside help.

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We talked to a lot of different people, consulted as many resources as we could.

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I think there's another time we can go into the specifics of some of the techniques that were utilized.

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But I'm just happy that we ended with what happened and we got that little bit of extra justice for faith.

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Ken, I'd like to ask Ms. Markov, or anyone on the prosecution team, when you heard that the verdict had been reached,

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you know, we all in the media do this, what do you think it'll happen?

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It's only out of dollars, no, no. What were you guys thinking when you went into the room and sat down in that heart -counting moment?

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Describe that for we who try to tell your story.

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Well, she said any of us.

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I heard that very clearly.

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Well, may I ask this Coltrane because you really, that was something.

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I'm Italian and even that was something for me.

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So please tell us about that moment.

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Well, verdicts are always that heart pounding moment where you feel like your heart is going to fall through the floor frankly.

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I always had faith not to use a play on words

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but I had faith that our jury would see through

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and use their common sense and so

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when they came back with a verdict I really I trusted that it was going to be a conviction.

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There's always some trepidation but I did have fate

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that they would understand the common sense and the evidence that was put in front of them

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and they did and I'm going to be forever grateful for that.

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Just one last thing, but you know the defense raised some issues and

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that was their job and they did their job trying to poke holes and create reasonable doubt.

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What was your reaction to some of their cross and how they tried to deflate the strength of your case?

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Like you said, defense attorneys have a job

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and I respect what they do and they were defending not only their client

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but the Constitution and so the fact

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that they were zealously advocating for their client I respect

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and we all do and so I have nothing

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but respect for them and what they did and I think that they did the best with what they had.

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I have two questions for Faith's family.

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One, the Faith's fear, the t -shirts, what does that mean?

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And second, if I could hear from one of Faith's parents about what they thought when the judge said that he saw

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Faith's beauty in your family.

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I didn't know if I can answer it over there.

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Is faith over fear?

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See the line, like the division line?

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It means we have faith over fear.

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We're not scared.

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We have faith, like I said, this whole time that we would get the verdict that we got.

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And as you can see on the back, justice for faith.

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And we got it.

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So we got no fear because we got faith.

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I just wanted to tell us your reaction when the judge said that he saw faith, beauty in the office.

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He had to see it in Connie, okay, not me.

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That's all I got to say.

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You know, we tried to represent faith during the whole trial, okay?

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not just our own feelings or not us as individuals, but we tried to represent her with dignity, and that's all I have to say.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Do you accept appeals and how are you prepared for that?

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Well, they've already filed notice of appeal and that would be expected in this type of case.

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And now that's in the hands of the appellate defender and the Attorney General.

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Can you see there?

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Yes.

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Can you talk about your constitution as far as, you know, they clearly proved their case,

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that this was part of a slam dunk case because there were questions about evidence and a lot of questions came up.

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Can you talk about how you all navigated that?

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And can you also talk about what this means to the community

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that you were able to get a conviction on a case that was 14 years ago?

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So we actually didn't know we were preparing for this case years ago when we applied for a grant from U .S.

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Department of Justice for a cold case prosecution team.

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Angela and Charles are part of that team.

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We got a grant.

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We have, it was part of our attempts to catch up on the Saki Kicks,

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the sexual assault kits, which Durham was the the first to clear its sexual assault backlog thanks to these folks.

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And And what we didn't know then was that we were building the capacity to take on this case.

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I promised Faith's family that I would put my best people on it.

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Angela is not only an experienced prosecutor, as our cold case sexual assault prosecutor,

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she probably has more knowledge than any prosecutor in the state in prosecuting these cases.

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Brooks as our child sexual assault prosecutor, I want you to remember that

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Faith was a child.

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She was 19 and Brooks' particular skill is working with victims who really can't speak, who are not going to be able to take the stand,

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who are not going to be able to tell you what happened to them.

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And both of them have developed really strong skills in the science of it

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and in understanding the science of it and Lisa has prosecuted murder cases all around the state with all kinds of judges,

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all kinds of circumstances and we really needed somebody to make sure

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that we did not forget that at the center of this case was a homicide.

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And so this team, I can't say enough about how hard they have prepared

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and we have really been working on this case almost every day for the last two years.

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And it has, like the family says, we've become close to them.

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This case is personal for me because at the time that we really started working on it.

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My youngest daughter was a 19 year old at UNC Chapel Hill

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and she had just moved off campus

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and I could not imagine what it would feel like to get

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that telephone call and we just all knew

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that we could not let this family down

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and of course it it means a lot to you know

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we want to we're thankful to the jurors here in Durham County.

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We had a diverse jury.

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That was our goal for our jury to look like Durham County.

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And it was also important to us that we talk about, and you've heard me talk about it, you've heard Faith's family talk about it.

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It is important to us that we've elevated this case because she was a murdered indigenous woman and there,

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like Alexis said, there are women who are never going to get this kind of media attention.

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They're never going to have people stand up and say their names.

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And for us, that is what faith stands for.

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Every time you say faith's name, remember that there are other women out there, too, who have not yet had their day in court.

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Thank you for that.

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That's very important.

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Thank you, Madam FBA.

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I would like to ask, we're going back to the big case.

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We know that the judge definitively ruled against third -party culpability.

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But were you concerned at all

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that the defense would be able to create enough confusion without crossing the line over into asking

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and guiding someone else that he could use the questions about Carino's testimony to confuse the jury?

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Not to say that Miguel didn't do it, but just mess it up so that they're just not sure.

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So the other thing I want to say is...

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We 100 % trusted Corrina Rosario.

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I think what people have forgotten and all the social media

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and all the media is that she was a 19 -year -old child too.

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And she came home and saw her best friend murdered in a brutal way.

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And because she didn't act like people expected her to act, oh, it must have been something.

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But from day one, we knew Karina was not involved.

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From day one, we knew, however, that it was important that we hear from her and

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that she had the opportunity to tell what it was like for her.

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I'll give members of the prosecution team, if they want to add to that anything

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but it is really important to say

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that at no time at no time did we believe Karina Rosario was involved with

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that and we were prepared every time that the defense brought

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that up yeah obviously the center of this case is faith

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but I personally met with Karina earlier this year for the first time

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I think the entire prosecution team met with her for the first time.

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She has been always available, but from the first time that we met with her,

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it was apparent, abundantly apparent,

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that despite all of the scrutiny that she has lived under, that she desperately loved

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Faith and missed

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Faith, and that she wanted justice for Faith as well.

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there was never any question in our mind that she had any involvement whatsoever and I

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personally am happy that that hopefully this will vindicate her some

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that this will get her out from a cloud

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that she's been living under for a long time and I hope

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that I'm not going to get into her personal business

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because she has remained very private but I hope

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that this today will allow her to move forward with her life in a way

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that she has not been able to for a long time.

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How many questions are we not doing now?

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There's someone there.

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Well, now what's the question?

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I'm sorry.

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I was just wondering, when you go into these things,

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you've got to play a psychological game and if it's a test match and all that stuff, did you believe wholeheartedly that the DNA,

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that if the jurors might not, they could close the books on everything else?

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I think when I'm thinking about trying a case, it doesn't feel like a game to me or a psychological exercise?

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I wasn't implying.

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No, I know, I know.

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I'm just trying to think through the question and make sure I answer it honestly.

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We would never prosecute a case.

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We didn't have evidence that we believe proves, beyond a reasonable doubt, the guilt of the person we're prosecuting.

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And that's one of the privileges of being a prosecutor because we have discretion.

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We don't take cases to trial that we don't believe.

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We have evidence to prove.

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And so going into any trial,

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and particularly this one, in response to the other person who asked about questions that came up or is the DNA enough,

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et cetera, I think what I focus on

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and what our team focused on is putting in front of the jury all of the evidence

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that we have that we believe proves beyond a reasonable doubt someone's guilt

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and at a point we have to trust that once we've done

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that regardless of you know everything else we've done our best

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and we have to trust the jury to do their job and that's how we approach this case too.

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Does that answer the question?

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Okay.

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I would just like to say to someone who lives far far away from here,

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the thing I recognize with all of you is this incredible unity.

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not just with your family who likes to vote for most of you, but the people in your community is so impressive

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and can you just speak very quickly to the strength of the entire community coming to bat for you essentially.

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I mean it's really an extraordinary thing to witness.

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And this is going to be, we'll let the family have the last word.

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I almost forgot the question.

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Our tribe means a lot to us.

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and even other tribes, we've had a lot of support, but we know that our community has been impacted a lot.

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And like my sister mentioned, Faith is not the only one from our community who has been murdered.

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A lot of people, especially in the last few years, are still waiting for justice, and their families are waiting.

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And I just want to say we stand with you, because y 'all stand with us.

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We're proud to be Halawasaponi, and we're proud of our people,

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and we're so grateful for our tiny town of Hollister for traveling all this way to be with us.

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And I wanted to add something about our shirts.

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We have a scholarship in Faith's name and her memory where we give recipients or incoming freshmen to colleges,

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to four -year universities for girls like

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Faith coming into a four -year university.

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We try to help them.

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We started this in 2014, 2013.

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Right after Faith was killed, it's just a way to keep her memory alive

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and to always keep her name out there and to try to give back to the community because, like I said, our community stands behind us,

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so we stand behind them.

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And one thing we knew was going to be challenging with this trial because we did anticipate four to six weeks,

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like y 'all said, we knew it would cost a lot, hotel stays, gas, food.

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We have gotten a lot of monetary donations, but in preparation of that, we started a t -shirt sale.

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I make these shirts, and we have decals and buttons, and every amount of money that we've gained,

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that we've been donated, that we've gotten from our sale has went to my family

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in efforts of travel expenses and any remaining funds go towards her scholarship.

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We have a fundraiser every year for her scholarship.

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So if you want to donate, please let us know.

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And yeah, that's just another way we keep

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Faith's memory alive.

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So we appreciate y 'all and that's it.

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Thank you all.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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This speaking lesson is built on the video “Durham DA, Hedgepeth family speak at press conference”. This video has 422 sentences and 4982 words to shadow. The speech runs for 37:55. The speaker talks at a steady 131 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
prosecutor noun	/ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/	A prosecuting attorney.
prosecution noun	/ˌpɹɑ.sɪˈkju.ʃən/	The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.
assault noun	/əˈsɔlt/	A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
indigenous adjective	/ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/	Native to a land, especially before colonization.
verdict noun	/ˈvɜː.dɪkt/	A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
pray verb	/pɹeɪ/	To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
grateful adjective	/ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/	Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful.
prosecute verb	/ˈpɹɒsɪkjuːt/	To start criminal proceedings against.
prayer noun	/pɹɛɚ/	A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
folk noun	/foʊk/	People, persons.
scholarship noun	/ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/	A grant-in-aid to a student.
thankful adjective	/ˈθæŋkfəl/	Showing appreciation or gratitude.
homicide noun	/ˈhɑ.məˌsaɪ̯d/	The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
tear verb	/tɛɹ/	To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
apparent adjective	/əˈpæɹənt/	Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
come up verb	To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
follow up verb	To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify.
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
live through verb	To survive a difficult period or event
stand behind verb	To support; express one's support for, especially despite opposition; to stick with a decision.
fall through verb	To be unsuccessful, come to nothing; to be cancelled; not to proceed.
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get up verb	To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Travis will you raise your hand?
He'll get you his email and his number.
She's brought a lot of people in our life.
Can you talk about how you all navigated that?
How many questions are we not doing now?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	have really been working · she's been living
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has not come · has been · have been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was helped · is missed · have been touched
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	woman who brought · people who aren · people who are

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 90 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we've, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: prosecution /ˌpɹɑ.sɪˈkju.ʃən/, scholarship /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/, conviction /kənˈvɪkʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
Long words — get the stress right: prosecutor /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/, prosecution /ˌpɹɑ.sɪˈkju.ʃən/, indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, monetary /ˈmʌnɪtəɹi/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like prosecutor, prosecution, assault.

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Sentences worth repeating

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Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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