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CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT.
TONIGHT ATTORNEYS
REPRESENTING JONATHAN
MONTGOMERY ARE
SEEKING A "CONDITIONAL
PARDON" FROM GOVERNOR BOB
MCDONNELL. THE REQUEST
IS NOT IN YET, AND
AS10 ON YOUR SIDE'S ANDY
FOX REPORTS THAT MEANS
MORE HARD TIME FOR
MONTGOMERY.
HARD TIME...OVER FOUR
YEARS HARD TIME.
JONATHAN WANTED TO BE OUT
TEN DAYS AGO, HE'S GIVEN
UP ON THANKSGIVING,
BUT HOPES BY THE END OF
THE YEAR HE IS OUT OF
PRISON AND HOME WITH HIS
LOT TO ME TO BE OUT
THANKSGIVING. IT WOULD
MEAN
EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD
TO ME)) RUNS: 05 WRONGLY
CONVICTED OF A CRIME HE
DID NOT COMMIT, SERVING
OVER FOUR YEARS FOR IT
JONATHAN MONTGOMERY HAS
LEARNED PATIENCE. (6:13
)
((I HAVE BEEN A REALLY
PATIENT PERSON . IT HAS
HELPED MY FAMILY.
IT IS AN ONGOING PROCESS
I KNOW IT'S SLOW AND I
HAVE TO TAKE THAT))
RUNS: 10 DAVE MONTGOMERY
WHO LIVES IN
CHARLOTTE HAS ALWAYS
BELIEVED IN HIS SON'S
INNOCENCE, AND HAS EVEN
FILED COURT PAPERS ON HIS
UP AND WE WILL SEE THIS
THROUGH))
RUNS:11 JONATHAN'S DAD
FRUSTRATED BY A
SLOW MOVING LEGAL SYSTEM
(18:54)
((IT WAS A SINGLE PERSON
WHO PUT HIM BEHIND THAT
HE THAT IS THE BIGGEST
FRUSTRATION WE HAVE HAD
THROUGH THIS WHOLE
PROCESS))
RUNS;12 GOVERNOR BOB
MCDONNELL SAYS
JONATHAN'S REQUEST FOR A
PARDON WILL BE PUT ON A
VERY FAST
TRACK. (4;59)
((WHEN I GET IT I WILL
ACT ON IT ...WHAT IS IN
THE PARDON REQUEST
AND WHAT EVIDENCE IS
THERE THAT HE IS ACTUALLY
INNOCENT.)) RUNS: 10 I
ASKED DAVE MONTGOMERY
ABOUT THIS CONFRONTATION
I HAD WITH ELIZABETH
COAST WHO
ACCUSED HIS SON, SENT HIM
TO PRISON FOR OVER FOUR
YEARS, AND NOW
SAYS SHE WAS LYING...THAT
JONATHAN IS INNOCENT.
(17 8:24) ((ATLEAST FOR
THE SAKE OF DECENCY
PLEASE GET OUT OF MY
WAY)) RUNS:10
(25:28) ((NO I AM NOT
GOING TO THANK HER I
WRONGFULLY EVERY MINUTE
OF EVERY DAY. IT DIDN'T
HAVE TO GET TO JOHN
DAY. IT DIDN'T HAVE TO
GET TO JOHN BEING
ARRESTED.)) RUNS;15
GOVERNOR MCDONNELL SAYS
THE PARDON REQUEST WILL
INCLUDE ELIZABETH COAST'S
RECANTATION,
WHAT LED TO IT, AND THE
OTHER EVIDENCE THAT LED
HAMPTON CIRCUIT JUDGE
RANDOLPH WEST TO FIND
MONTGOMERY
GUILTY. MONTGOMERY'S
FAMILY SAYS THE
ONLY SOLID EVIDENCE
AGAINST HIM WAS COAST'S
TESTIMONY, AND AS
WE NOW KNOW ALL THAT
TURNED OUT TO BE A LIE.
SHE SAID SO TO A POLICE
DETECTIVE.
BREAKING NEWS ON THE
INTERSTATES.