mr. watkins took office.e returned the news on and see barry shaq from the innocence project in new york. after mr. watkins became the first african-american d.a. in the history of texas, he can be credited for picking up the ball and running with it because the organization i worked with the innocence protection detective was able to partner with mr. watson i could not have happened without his stamp of approval and it definitely could not have happened, we could not have looked into the files without his office saying i'm not going to block it. the conviction integrity unit is approved for something that $400,000 by the dallas county commissioners gave mr. watson what he needed to establish one of the first conviction integrity unit in the country. and now as we speak, the u.s. attorney's office is about to launch its own conviction integrity unit. look at this model in dallas because now that the federal level they look at what states are doing and i hope they definitely do what texas has done and what cra

mr. watkins and that couldn't have happened without his stamp of approval, and it definitely couldn't havehappened without his office saying i'm not going to block it into the conviction integrity unit that was approved with 400,000 dallas commissioners to establish the conviction integrity unit in the country and now as we speak the u.s. attorney's office is now about to launch its own conviction integrity unit and i hope they look at this model in dallas because now they will seek innocent man at the federal level and wondering what the states are doing and i hope they will look at what texas has done thank you for your question. >> i just want to let the public know that for seven years i filed a motion for a dna test and for seven years i was ignored. as a matter of fact my attorney came back and told me all of my emotions were in the final 13 which we know that's the trash until craig watkins came. i think that we can give him the credit for all of us being here because the biggest problem that we would have tried to get justice at first falls on the desk. he can be neither grant such