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Re: ياما في السجن مظاليم(جيمس بين) يعانق فضاءات الحرية بعد 35 سنة(توجد دموع).. (Re: سيف اليزل برعي البدوي)
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You out in the sun all day. A GIRLFRIEND? WELL, THAT'S NOT IN THE CARDS RIGHT NOW FOR JAMES BAIN. I got to be very careful. Why's that? No, I just don't want no woman to want me for my money, to be honest with you.
YOU CAN'T BLAME HIM IF HE'S A LITTLE SKITTISH. HE'S ABOUT TO COME INTO QUITE A BIT OF CASH. ABOUT 1.8 MILLION DOLLARS. IN A SENSE, BLOOD MONEY.
You gave up 35 years of your life. It's like money can't give you back.. No, not even if they gave me 100 million! Even if they gave me that, it still isn't going to replace what I lost.
THE MONEY, RESTITUTION TO BE PAID BY THE STATE FOR THE YEARS BAIN SPENT WRONGFULLY IN PRISON. THIS IS JAMES BAIN IN 1974, 19 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS SENT TO A FLORIDA PRISON. BAIN HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF KIDNAPPING AND RAPING A NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY. FINALLY, WITH THE HELP OF THE INNOCENCE PROJECT, WHICH LOOKS INTO QUESTIONABLE CONVICTIONS, D-N-A TESTS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN HE WAS CONVICTED PROVED HIS DIDN'T DO IT. AND JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS..
Mr. Bain, I am now signing the order, sir. You are a free man. Congratulations. But you're not bitter. I remember you had said to me... No, no, no. I would never be that, sir.
JAMES BAIN IS REMARKABLE. DESPITE ALL HE'S BEEN THROUGH, THERE'S ALWAYS A SMILE. SINCE HIS RELEASE, IT'S BEEN A WHIRLWIND FIVE MONTHS. FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, HE RANG THE LIBERTY BELL. BAIN WAS THE SPECIAL GUEST AT THE TITANIC EXHIBIT IN ORLANDO, HIS FAVORITE MOVIE WHILE IN PRISON.
On the ice. I want you to feel what it was like that night. BAIN SAYS SO FAR ADJUSTING TO LIVE ON THE OUTSIDE HAS BEEN PRETTY EASY. In a sense, I feel like a bear. Yeah, I am coming out of hibernation. Like, they come out to eat, mine would be coming out to enjoy what I done missed.
HE'S PLANNING ON GOING TO NIGHT SCHOOL TO GET HIS HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. HE WANTS TO BUY A MOTORCYCLE AND TOUR THE COUNTRY EXCEPT THERE'S ONE LITTLE HANG-UP, A DRIVER'S LICENSE.
When I went to do the written test, that's where I failed it. BAIN LIVES WITH HIS 77-YEAR-OLD MOM RIGHT NOW. MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE HE JUST WANTS TO TAKE CARE OF HER. SHE MOVED INTO THIS HOME THE YEAR HER SON WENT TO PRISON. THE 25-FOOT ORANGE AND GRAPEFRUIT TREES IN THE YARD WERE SAPLINGS THEN.
That had vanished for me. I never thought I'd get a chance to see another one of these.
FREEDOM, BAIN SAYS, DON'T EVER TAKE IT LIGHTLY. JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN, TAMPA.
http://wdef.com/news/life_after_prison/05/2010
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