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we had an increase of nearly two and a half million tons of alfalfa compared to previous years. we had 1,136 thousand tons of alfalfa production in the fields, so that we can use the fields for seven months. sorry, but the decrease in maratha vegetation is still a threat. there is a direct relationship between rainfall and vegetation. the average rainfall in the last 15 years is a third of the meat needed in the country. it also has a large share in the production of honey. year only honey production in pastures
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our country has, according to the report of the natural resources organization, the cost of maintaining maratha in iran , as the fifth country in the world in terms of the diversity of natural resources, is very low. the total credit we had for the maratha sector in these 44 years was 630 billion tomans, which means that each hectare was 172 tomans. can we count with 172 tomans? there are critical centers, and in the seventh plan, 20 million hectares of plateaus and 14 million of wind erosion centers are supposed to be restored. we saw 1 million hectares of goat farming operations, 1 million 205 thousand hectares of biomechanical operations, 15 million hectares. we have seen the management of 300,000 hectares of the development of the pharmaceutical world. they directly
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use the pastures of the country. ahmad hamidi , sada and sima news agency, today is friday, the 16th of shahrivar, the second of rabi awwal and the sixth of september in tehran. in the sun at 184 minutes, the maghrib call to prayer will be at 183 minutes , and the sharia midnight will be at 23:20 minutes. dear viewers, thank you very much for being with us until this moment. have a good time and god bless you.
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there is an important doubt about the guilt of these people, the accuracy of these judgments is questionable. it was as if he wanted to smile and call the eye that he used to bring us to himself and this is what i remember very well from brandon , no one hears our voice and we have no one but god, don't think.
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when the jury is going to make a decision, all members must agree on that decision. if even one person is not convinced that the accused is guilty, the verdict should not be given.
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by oppressing the poor and the lower layers of the society , as well as by pressuring and abusing racial ethnicities and people of color , they have progressed financially and economically and defined the overall structure of the society with their needs. according to the published documents and statistics of the population blacks in this country are about 20% of the american population, but the number of black prisoners in american prisons is five times that of whites. 3 times the number of black women going to prison. the women are white, and the number of black teenagers who enter the food industry and are transferred to adult prisons is about 60%. this documentary is a revelation of another part of the discrimination of the american judicial system against black people. have you ever thought about what the day
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will be like when you get out of here? this is the only thing i am waiting for. well, i think this is what you have in mind that i will probably hug my mother and when i go to court i will be able to perform well just like you always prayed for me pray for my release again you have a special relationship with brandon yes because he
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needed me the most, me and the rest of the children i didn't like it less , but brandon was always sick during braran's childhood. he had severe asthma and needed constant medical care. for the first 15 years of his life, he lived at home with a ventilator or was in the hospital. it was a difficult task for us who are black to pay for treatment. in america the costs treatment is high and conditions are more difficult for blacks. when he was 15 years old. he was able to control his asthma attacks and entered the society. he was a lively boy who wanted to make up for all the time he lost. as a mother, how do you feel about him being kept behind bars for so many years?
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it cannot be described. you are not born a child to be imprisoned. in my opinion, imprisonment in america is another form of slavery. he has not met. all my family died and now i am the only one he has. branden is now seeking a retrial 24 years after the verdict his case was not a unanimous jury. we blacks have a hard time. in america , we are both deprived of classes and involved in a racist system that considers us guilty and condemns us. we have a hearing in a courthouse in northwest louisiana . brandon's fate in this conservative part of the state rests in the hands of the judge. one
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of the prosecutors of this region has opposed barden's efforts to be released from prison. how many hearings did you attend? so much that from how do you feel about the meeting we are going to have today? i for a positive result i pray because it was approved many times by going to these courts during the era known as the war on drugs. the prosecutor sentenced brandon to life imprisonment because of his ex-husband. in 2019, his sentence was reduced to 40 years in prison, which made him eligible for freedom for the first time.
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i am under pressure. my son has been in jail for many years and my hands are not tied anywhere. the brenden court hearing is held here at the courthouse. he is accused of robbing the apple bay restaurant at gunpoint. there is no physical evidence of his involvement in this incident. his conviction only to it was issued because of the testimony of a person. tell each other who is joseph young? well, joseph young was one of our blind men. joseph yang was unemployed at apple. at first, he
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denied any involvement in the robbery, but later changed his story and told the police that he had planned the robbery with branden. he said that he opened the back door of the building and two armed men entered and tied the hands and feet of the employees and stole $6,000. no one was injured. young testified that brandon was one of the two gunmen and had paid them $1,000 to participate in the robbery. you he stole my height was not the same as the description of the armed robbers. most importantly , no physical evidence was presented against brandon jackson. no evidence was found in his blood. there was no proof at all. it means that there were no fingerprints of brandon on the money or the gun and nothing and could not be related to brandon jackson's fingerprints? true, the only thing against him was the testimony of joseph young. so you hope that
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this will help your conviction, right? in other words, you are testifying against your friend so that your sentence will be reduced, and joseph young says clearly. yes mr. joseph young spent 3 months in jail and was placed on probation for his role in the robbery. we also obtained and saved the video for the court. the title of evidence was something in the case that two of
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the jurors were not convinced of brandon's guilt. justice required a retrial, but the louisiana court decided to convict brandon and send him to prison. the point of brandon's case is just like the cases of men and women who have been convicted without a unanimous jury. the point is that there is an important doubt about the guilt of these people. precision these rulings are doubtful. in these cases , witnesses benefit from testifying against people. just like the brendon case. these cases have long sentences. this should not happen anywhere else. the history of these strict rules dates back to the jim perot era. after the civil war , black americans began to take advantage of their newly found civil rights.
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a constitutional convention was formed that had a stated purpose, a publicly stated and written purpose, which was to secure the perpetuity and supremacy of the white race as far as it existed under federal law, and i think that should really be the purpose. how do you know that you have this goal? this is given in the official journal of the convention sessions. their goal was to convict more blacks and
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silence black jurors, and they actually convicted more blacks and suppressed more black jurors. there are currently more than 15,000 people in prison in louisiana who have been sentenced without incident. 80% of these prisoners are black. we tried to talk to all of the jurors in brandon's trial. some are dead and others don't remember the details. it became a mosque for us that the two members who did not judge brendon's guilt were black. one of these two people announced to talk to us. he agreed but asked us not to reveal his name and face. what i remember most is that when the case was presented and we investigated, i was not convinced of his guilt. why did you doubt this? no one said that i knew that the thief was brandon
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or that i knew brandon. no one could convince me that he is a muslim thief. it was brandon's crush. did you share your opinion with other members? i'm sure i announced it at least once but it was ignored became. they did not accept my words. how did you feel when they didn't accept your words? i thought that, well, i said what i said and i hoped that my words would make someone think and change their opinion. even if they didn't want to say this in front of the group. but this happened with oil.
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he laughed a lot and was very calm. i remember that he looked into the eyes of the jury members and seemed very sure of himself. as i said , he had a lot of confidence in himself. so his behavior was one way. yes, it was like that. his behavior was as if he wanted to bring us to him with his smile and eye contact. something that i remember brandon very well. well, i think the only mental image i remember was the 10 to 2 vote and the two people who voted not to impeach him were black. we talked to the woman who didn't condemn brandon and she said that no one could identify brandon. and definitely say that he
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was the one who did this, no one except his accomplice could identify him, so he remained unknown . you mean yes, because it can be said that all of them are wearing masks, so i didn't identify him except for his hand. what do you think about the conviction without consensus? there are those on the jury who feel their voices are being silenced, especially if they are people of color , you know what they have to do, i 've lived in the south all my life, i was born and raised here , i don't think their voices were heard. i mean, i don't even remember if he explained why he didn't blame brandon or not. i don't remember i don't think the problem is that their voices were not heard. the problem is that more people think that it is the destination. one of
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the reasons he thought you were guilty was because you were looking at the jury and making eye contact. you would have established it like this. the only thing i did was what my lawyer told me, he said always look at the jurors, so could they have concluded that i was guilty just because i was looking at them, what kind of justice is this? you messed up my words, this doesn't make sense, i mean, you are telling me that if i hadn't looked at them, i wouldn't be here now, and you never found me guilty, this can only be ridiculous and there is no reason for me to accept this statement. this is very clear and in accordance with the same legal convention.
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why were you a little worried about speaking in front of our camera? i don't want to stand in front of my bosses because it might send bad messages. have it for me. can you tell me why? because they think very similar to the jury of that case . i mean, how? that he is a criminal. he should be removed from the street, we should imprison him, or even because he is black, we should imprison him. i will not forget the face of heit mansafar. some of them before the announcement of the verdict. they smile , am i angry or am i better now? i am neither angry nor better now, because i remember what happened to me.
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i got used to this injustice and systematic discrimination in america, i really got used to it. is there any hope that these discriminatory american laws, which are only specific to this country, will change? in april , a number of louisiana democratic representatives introduced a bill that would reconsider previous convictions like brandon's. i cannot say that i look back and see the cases differently. my focus is on the future and this is how i want to make a change. if these decrees are illegal and we know that these decrees are rooted in racism and 1,500 people these are your commands. they are in prison and many of them have life sentences, shouldn't their case be re -examined? i am completely sure of my opinion, because the supreme court said that our method is correct, how is it possible that
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it is not illegal for people who have already been imprisoned. the supreme court said that our work was right. so i debate, but what do you think? i think what we did was brave and great and i'm glad you went ahead with it. do you think those people need a solution ? i think there is a solution. what is the solution? the solution is that the prosecutor can close the case review it, but if the prosecutor decides to review it, how do you feel about them ? do you think this is the right thing to do ? i am sure that we did the right thing. and this law is related to the jim crow laws, but we do not accept that people are carrying the burden of this law right now, and
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he is outside the city. my question is about the old case of someone named brandon jackson. i don't know who you are do you remember the details of this case or not? i don't remember this case because i've only been here for 20 years. to silence the black members of the jury. you know, i have no argument about the origin of this law. i think it all has to do with the law and the jim crow part. it's terrible from
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history and reminds us. i know this , but i trust the judicial system and i think that in general, what the truth is, they did the right thing. i 'm giving you information about this particular case because i'm interested in this case. i have and under my investigation, is this case from that case? there are some that you want to go back and take a look at. definitely, definitely, i have no problem with this issue. his name is brandon jackson. brandon jackson. if you look at jackson's file and then call me , i would be very grateful. i will call you on wednesday. thank you very much, sir. have a great week , yours too. bye. more than three weeks later, district attorney skyler marvin responded that the da's office cannot overturn or reconsider a conviction simply because of a lack of consensus. brendon and his mother are the only way
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left to claim their rights. about his request to decide for a retrial, but mr. qazi made this decision for the umpteenth time without providing acceptable reasons . brendan and his mother have to wait again. as if they are holding us. they don't want to release him . i know they have. they buy time. i don't have much time. i have a heart operation in 6 months and i am trying to stay alive and i ask god to keep me alive to see his release. but with this speed and situation, i will not be able to do this. how do you feel when you see the confederate monument that is a symbol of racism in america? do you well, honestly, i think that seeing the statue.
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the confederacy is a constant reminder that the system was not made for black people. this food system, just like this statue, is built in such a way as to send the message to black defendants that this is not your place. i had another question. you told me a few days ago that this case was very important to you and you were present in all court sessions. even if you had to drive a long way to get there. why was it important to you that in tek? to attend its meetings . explain this to me i didn't want to branden will be afraid and think that he is forgotten. i wanted him to know that he is very valuable and that it doesn't matter how long he stays in prison or what happens. he will never be forgotten. his mother will never forget him. you might come out in time and be able to.
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have a cup of tea with your mother. do you mean my mother's health? it is hard to say. this is something that only god knows. many things have happened to my mother. heart attack, cancer, covid. and you know, he says every time i call. i'm not going anywhere to see you back home. that's why i i am fighting every day and i will continue to fight until it reach me because i know he needs me, he loves me and wants me to be by his side , that's all i want, thank you. jackson is still a convicted felon under american law, and his petition for a new trial based on a non-unanimous verdict
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is pending. . he is spending his 50 years in prison, while the american judicial system has once again shown that it is racial discrimination that is going on there, not justice. thousands of reports. 700-page retired judge martin merbic, however, emphasizes the multitude of indifference to the lives of deceitful people.

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