(21 May 2025)
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ARCHIVE: New Orleans – 20 May 2025
1. Close up of Orleans Justice Center
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kennedy, Attorney for Sterling Williams:
"That Mr. Williams is absolutely innocent that he was used as a tool by the escapees and is being used as a fall guy by Sheriff Hutson."
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ARCHIVE: New Orleans – 20 May 2025
3. Wide up of Orleans Justice Center
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kennedy, Attorney for Sterling Williams:
"First off, him turning off the water is not an accusation. It’s a fact. We readily admit that he is the jail plumber. There was an overflowing toilet in what he tells me was a handicapped stall that should not have been in use. Nevertheless was open and this this toilet apparatus was clogged and spilling out into the floor. He was told by a deputy there was no work order. He asked, and the deputy convinced him that as he was there, could he just look at it. He assessed the situation, determined he would have to shut off the water to fix it, which he did in his role as jail plumber."
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ARCHIVE: New Orleans – 20 May 2025
5. Various of Orleans Justice Center
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kennedy, Attorney for Sterling Williams:
"Mr. Williams had a passing exchange with one of the inmates wherein he was assessing the toilet, made the determination he needed to turn off the water. The inmate, as he was there, happened to say something about shaking him. He didn’t take this as a threat. He wasn’t acting out of fear. He was taking this as normal jailhouse banter."
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ARCHIVE: New Orleans – 20 May 2025
7. Various of Orleans Justice Center
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kennedy, Attorney for Sterling Williams:
"He was doing his job and was apparently used, and let me be clear, I don’t think they used Sterling specifically. I think it was using the toilet specifically, and he had the misfortune of being the plumber on duty.
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ARCHIVE: New Orleans – 20 May 2025
9. Close up of barbed wire
STORYLINE:
A lawyer for a worker charged with helping 10 men escape a New Orleans jail says the worker did not know about the jailbreak plan.
Sterling Williams was arrested Tuesday in connection with Friday’s jailbreak.
His lawyer, Michael Kennedy, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the inmates clogged a toilet to get the water shut off so that they could escape through a hole behind it.
Kennedy says Williams did not allow the inmates to cut a pipe behind the toilet to create an opening for their escape.
Authorities have said that Williams was threatened into turning off the water but could have reported the threat and the men’s plan.
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