Chilling Nolan Wells Grand Jury Report UNSEALED

The grand jury has found no evidence of. a crime in connection with Nolan Wells. death. No criminal charges. So, what. we're going to do is we're going to go. through the main takeaways from this. report, which we've been waiting for. Then, we have this followup from the. district attorney. We also have a. response from Ben Crump. And later on, we have an interview with [music] the. attorney for one of the young men who. was caught up in online speculation. Welcome to Sidebar, presented by Law and. Crime. [music] I'm Jesse Weber. A grand jury has found no evidence to.

support bringing criminal charges in. connection with the death of Nolan. Wells, meaning they didn't return back. what we call in the law a true bill. Now, this is a major major update in. this story that we've been following for. months since the beginning when this. 18-year-old college football player died. after a July 4th boating trip to a. barrier island called Horn Island out in. Mississippi. His body was found two days. later, July 6th. his family has been. demanding answers, hiring attorney Ben.

Crump, doing their own private. investigation. So, after all these. months, after all the public statements, the interviews from Nolan's friends, this is the result. And I want to break. it down and I want to tell you what's in. this report. I want to play you what we. heard from the local DEA in her video. response as well as trying to understand. why this decision has been made. Where. does this go from here? Now, before we. get into everything, obviously this is a. big story we're following here on. Sidebar. We're kind of limited in this. capacity in 30 40 minutes to show you.

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monthly price. Hope you can check it. out. Okay, so back to this. In the grand. jury report that was released late. yesterday by the Jackson County DA's. office. And remember, we have been. waiting for this for quite some time. These grand jurors, this panel. unanimously found no criminal. wrongdoing, no evidence of racially. motivated wrongful or criminal or. violent acts in connection with Nolan's. death. And according to the report, the. grand jury made their determination. after 132 subpoenas, hearing from 43.

witnesses, recorded statements to. authorities, physical evidence, digital. evidence, maps, GPS data, photos, videos, correspondence between the. district attorney's office and the. family's legal team. We're going to have. more on that in a little bit. But the. grand jury did find, quote, that the. position of, the condition of, time of. discovery, and location of Mr. Well's. body is consistent with drowning, but to. be clear, they are saying there is no.

evidence of a homicide. No evidence that. he had been killed. Now, it even. addressed this apparent bruising on. Nolan's body, which we've talked about. before. I'm talking about this apparent. bruising on the back of his head. And if. you recall, when the family hired an. independent autopsy to be performed by. forensic pathologist Dr. Roger Mitchell, he found that there was this red. discoloration in the soft tissue on the. back of the head. At the time, I. interviewed different forensic. pathologists about this and they said. one thing could be it was blunt force. trauma or two, it could be the result of.

decomposition. Well, the grand jury. indicated that the bruising to the back. of the head was quote not a fatal. injury, but it couldn't be determined. what the actual cause of that injury. was. The grand jury finding it found no. evidence of any fatal injury or organic. disease to Mr. Wells body. And. apparently one witness testified that. they saw Nolan quote slip awkwardly off. the side of a boat on that day, but. quote could not say whether Mr. Wells.

struck his head during the fall and that. he quote continued to socialize after. the fall and did not appear injured. So, look, we don't know if that was. contributing to the apparent bruising or. not, but it was part of this report. Also, the grand jury report states, quote, "The grand jury finds that Mr. Wells was not in any physical. altercation or argument on July 4th, 2026, which you and I both know was part. of the narrative, was part of the. conversation. Was he in a fight of some.

kind?" Let's talk toxicology. We had. been waiting for this as well. So when. it came to the grand jury finding. drowning, they indicated that that was. essentially because they eliminated. other possibilities because the. toxicology report, which we had been. again waiting on for quite some time, the grand jury indicated was quote not. particularly informative as. decomposition fluid is an unreliable. source for evaluating substance levels. within a body. However, it was. determined that Nolan didn't have.

cocaine in his system and there was no. evidence to support that he used the. drug. However, the findings determined. that Nolan had purchased alcohol using a. fake ID and that no adults actually. applied or procured him alcohol during. that boating trip. Okay, but we're going. to have more on that alcohol in a. minute. I think there's an important. part of this that's brought up by the. DA. Okay, real quick. For anybody who. owns a business or manages a business, you don't need me to tell you that. running a business is tough enough. But. why make it harder doing things manually. or relying on dozens of apps that don't.

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highlight was the examination of Nolan's. cell phone. This was a big issue in this. story because if you recall, there were. questions about why would he seemingly. leave his phone on the boat before he. goes onto this barrier island onto Horn. Island. There was this question about. whether messages or digital content was. deleted from his cell phone before it. was given back to his family. So, this. grand jury reviewed a 14page report. about his cellular activity. It was. conducted by the Wells Family Forensic. Examiner, Garrett Discovery, Inc. It was.

actually provided to the DA's office. And that's interesting because there was. a part of this story about the family. and authorities doing a joint. inspection, a mutual inspection of the. phone. And by the way, you're going to. hear a little bit more from the DA on. this, but apparently the grand jury also. reviewed a report about the cell phone. locking state, screen activity, calls, messages, location, app use. They also. received an over 260 page Snapchat. conversation report. And according to. the DA, nothing was deleted from Nolan's.

phone since he used it last. And no one. other than the family used it since he. used it. And additionally, the report. said that the jury panel found, quote, "It is not unusual or suspicious for. individuals to return from the island on. boats they did not travel to the island. on, nor is it unusual for individuals to. place their phones and personal items on. other boats they visit and socialize. on." And they also added that Nolan's. phone was not the only one to go back to. the mainland without its owner. But.

again, no finding of criminality here. And when I say that also no tampering. with evidence or false statements to law. enforcement. Now there is a caveat in. the grand jury's report and it says that. if evidence should develop or evolve in. the future that quote suggests Mr. Wells. death was nonacal. then that evidence should be presented. to a grand jury for possible filing of. homicide charges. This now brings me to. a recorded video statement from Jackson.

County District Attorney Angel Meers. Mrath. So, this is on the heels of the. findings of the grand jury report after. it was released. Her office is releasing. this. And I have to tell you, when you. listen to her, there's a few themes. here. Now, remember, she has been. relatively silent during the course of. this investigation. She was kind of. limited in what she could say. Not. surprising. A prosecutor, a DA, they. don't want to share the results of an. investigation. They can't say anything. that would taint an investigation. So, she's been kind of limited in how she.

can respond. But one theme from her. statement, which we're going to show you. right now, was calling out those who. pushed what she saw as false and. dangerous narratives. >> Outsiders and influencers have attempted. to exploit Nolan's death to divide and. create chaos. Here, the narrative that. three white boys and a black boy went to. an island and only three white friends. returned spread like wildfire. This was false. Nolan went to Horn. Island on July 4th, 2026 with a large.

group of friends. And while on the. island, he connected with even more. friends. There is absolutely no evidence. to support the allegations that Nolan's. disappearance and death were racially. motivated. Nolan's friends love Nolan and Nolan. loved them. Nolan chose to stay on the. island that day and there is not a. cintillaa of evidence to contradict. that. The family, the Crump team, and. anyone close to Nolan knew that his.

disappearance and death were not the. result of racial hate or violence. Yet, the flames of that narrative set against. the backdrop of Mississippi's terrible. history were fanned by both people who. knew the truth and those who didn't. So, she says that Nolan's death was not the. result of some racial corrupt system. trying to hide the truth. And that leads. me to this next part, this other theme. where she calls out Ben Crump and his.

team, the legal representatives for. Nolan Wells family. Now, to be clear, she's not quite going after the family, but more seemingly Ben Crump and his. team. For example, on July 15th, 2026, Nolan's family and the Crump team were. shown evidence of Nolan purchasing his. own alcohol. But that fact they chose. not to share with the public. On August. 13th, 2026, after the Crump team. conducted and released the results of. its independent autopsy, and after.

receiving hundreds of tips, they advised. my office that they had no evidence of a. crime being committed against Nolan. Wells. Just this weekend, I read where a. congresswoman had met with Nolan's. family and the crump team and said that. Nolan Wells is another black boy. murdered and no one seems to care. Ma'am, you are wrong. The Crump team. knows this and knows that they are. dealing with a district attorney whose. unwavering pursuit of the truth gave. them all a seat at the table. I also. want you to understand that I'm not.

suggesting that a grieving mother police. the rumors surrounding her child's. death. What I am suggesting is that the. Crump team knew better but did not do. better. One of the most prevalent false. narratives was that my office refused to. cooperate and/or obstructed a mutual. examination with the Crump team of. Nolan's cell phone. This could not be. further from the truth. You must first. understand that the state of Mississippi. had no legal avenue to seize and search. Nolan's cell phone.

Nolan's family received that phone in. the very early morning hours of July. 5th, and it continues to remain in their. possession. On August 28th, 2026, the. Crump team advised that I would receive. the extraction data by FedEx within 48. hours and provided a 14page preliminary. report indicating the phone had not been. accessed by anyone other than Nolan's. family, and nothing had been deleted off. of the phone since Nolan's last use.

I never received the full extraction. data as promised and I never received a. complete extraction report of Nolan's. cell phone. >> And she went on to say how Dr. Roger. Mitchell, this forensic pathologist that. was hired by Nolan's family, how he. examined Nolan's body, how he was. invited to Mississippi to view the. complete investigative file, how he was. taken to Horn Island, how he met with. the chief medical examiner, he viewed. parts of the throat that were missing. from his original examination, that he.

had a chance to see these hisytological. studies, and that he testified before. the grand jury. And after all of this, she even called on lawmakers to pass. legislation to change what happened here. to make sure seemingly the speculation, the rumors, the harassment that resulted. from Nolan's death, how it can't happen. again. Even the grand jury report reads. that the quote public clamor and. malicious allegations against the. occupants of the three boats in which.

Nolan Wells and his friends went to Horn. Island have extended to their family. members and friends. that the public. attacks are malicious, false, and have. no truth in fact or evidence. And the. report said that the family, look, they. were allowed to submit evidence from. their own investigation. But in the end, the grand jury highlights that quote, "It revealed no witnesses or evidence. whom the legal team reasonably believes. possess information germaine to. potential criminal activity that. warrants referral." Now, there has been. reaction to the grand jury's findings.

There has been reaction to the DA's. statement. Let's talk Ben Crump. So Ben. Crump released a statement and it says, quote, "Today, the state of Mississippi. is attempting to close the chapter on. Nolan Wells death without getting to the. truth. Mississippi's own pathologists. found two bruises on the back of this. young man's head and informed. investigators of them early in this. investigation. An independent autopsy. documented traces of blood and recent. blunt force injuries to the back of. Nolan's head and his back. To this day, not one person has explained how they.

got there." Dr. Mitchell also wrote that. the record does not establish whether. Nolan entered the water on his own or. was forced or whether he was conscious. when he went in. We don't know how Nolan. died and neither does the state of. Mississippi. Mississippi must keep. investigating and if it will not pursue. this to the end, the Department of. Justice should. We are releasing the. final independent autopsy report in its. entirety so everyone can read it for. themselves. This grand jury result. leaves us with more questions than. answers. Nolan's family will not rest.

until we know what happened to him and. neither will we. And Crump also. reportedly said that forensic experts. will discuss the phone examination in. the coming days, too. Now, there was a. press conference that was held by Ben. Crump and team. Here's a portion of it. We're going to have. uh additional press conference in. Orlando, Florida. to talk about the phone extraction. because we are laser focused on getting. to the truth.

>> of what really happened to Nolan Xavier. Wales. And we're going to have our experts. We. went out and we retained the top experts. to help us get to the truth of what. happened. And we think it's going to be. enlightening where you go through that. phone extraction. and everything dealing with the meta. data of the phone. because. the investigation.

should remain open and active until. Christine. and Elmore knows the truth. >> of what happened to their beloved child. Ain't that what every parent wants? >> Now, there has also been reaction from. those who have been implicated online. You heard what the DA had to say, right? Well, three names that have come up. during the course of this story are. Warren Hudson, Jax Patalo, and Morgan.

Seymour, who claimed they were on Horn. Island that day. Their legal team and. even some of them themselves in. interviews denied having anything to do. with Nolan Wells death. And after the. grand jury report, Edward Pulzik, an. attorney who represents these friends, said, "We said it all along. Warren. Hudson, Jax Patalo, and Morgan Seymour. were always completely innocent. There. was never any doubt. They are terrific. people." And he along with another. attorney representing these young men, Tyler Cox said, "These friends, their.

families, they were relieved by the. grand jury findings." So that now brings. me to Bart Edmonson Jr. And we've talked. about him on Sidebar before. this. apparent friend of Nolan. Apparently, he. has gotten caught up or he has gotten. caught up in the crossfire by some. online people. And some have speculated. that he had a connection with a young. woman that Nolan may have been talking. to that day, that Nolan may have stayed. on the island to talk to her, that Bart. and her were romantically linked. His. attorney, Russell Latino, claimed that. is not true, indicated that Bart would.

be fighting back against false claims. If you recall in a previous cybar, I'll. mention it again. In a statement to Long. Crime at the time, he said, quote, "After a week of egregiously false and. defamatory accusations against Bart. Edmonson Jr. accusations which resulted. in credible death threats now being. investigated by the FBI, the Edmonson. family has released a statement. addressing their son's knowledge of and. cooperation in the Nolan Wells. investigation." And that statement in. part said, "When Nolan's disappearance. and death came to light, Bart Jr. freely.

and fully cooperated with law. enforcement investigating the tragedy. He sat for interviews, answered all of. the questions he was asked, and shared. all of his recollection from July 4th, 2026. Bart Jr. also compiled a list of. potential witnesses. He allowed his. phone to be viewed and shared requested. photographs and videos from that day. with law enforcement. He also permitted. the inspection of his boat and GPS. device. At no point in this process has. Bart Jr. ever been identified as a. suspect in Nolan's death. This has not. stopped people from engaging in. dangerous speculation, nor has it.

stopped outright fabrications. This. week, it has been Bart Jr.'s turn to be. accused by thousands of online strangers. who do not know him, do not know any. relevant facts, and do not care about. our community or the truth of what. happened. And then it goes on to say, "We've retained legal counsel for the. purpose of pursuing recourse against. those individuals fabricating lies about. him or our family." So, after this grand. jury report, Russell Latino joins me. right now. Thank you so much for taking. the time, sir. So, what is the reaction. from you? What is the reaction from your.

client, your client's family? Talk to. us. >> Yeah. Know, a lot of people have used. the word vindicated because I I really. don't think that's the right word, though. Um, my client, his family, a. large portion of the Ocean Springs. community knew all of the facts that. were going to be presented to the grand. jury because they had talked to the. people that were out there, right? You. had 24 witnesses between those two boats. that all said the exact same thing. You. had photographic and video evidence that.

showed that Nolan Wells on wasn't on. either one of those boats when they. departed. You had witnesses that put him. on the island after they had departed. And so all of those facts were pretty. well known uh to my client, to the. families of the people that were out. there. And so what the grand jury did. really wasn't to vindicate them so much. as to tell the rest of the world what we. already knew, which was that the. overwhelming weight of the evidence. showed that there was no credible. evidence of anything remotely close to a. crime. >> Did the report from the grand jury say.

anything specifically about your client? >> Uh, it did not. It it referenced my. client's boat. So my client took out a. 23 and 1/2 ft tideline boat that day. Uh. it was referenced as one of the three. boats that the friend group rode out on. Um a lot of people don't realize this. though, but my client wasn't even. supposed to be out there that day. He. got a call that morning from a friend. who had a problem with another boat they. were going to take out. He had a big. overflow group of friends that he wanted.

to take. And so he asked my client. essentially to do him a favor. Um and so. my client did a favor that morning and. bringing out a group of people that he. didn't even know. Uh, and then on the. way out that day, as the Trident boat. that Nolan had originally ridden out on. was preparing to leave, it had a BGE. pump issue, uh, a mechanical issue on. the boat, and my client rendered aid to. that boat. So really, his role that day. was two sort of good Samaritan deeds, um, that resulted in a lot of internet. speculation that was just rank and.

baseless. Um, and candidly has done a. lot of injury to him. I guess the. question is is when you read the report. um you saw Ben Crump's response I'm sure. and but basically say look they still. don't have answers. They don't know. exactly how Nolan died. Um they don't. have the circumstances of whether or not. he was forcibly put in the water or he. accidentally went in the water. They. also don't have a determination. Uh one. of the things I think as well is how did. no one see him. Do you think that this. grand jury investigation has answered.

those questions? Do you think those are. still up in the air? Do you think that. this is going to go anywhere now? I. mean, there's still not a clear full. understanding about what happened to. Nolan. >> Look, I would say this, and we've said. it from the get-go. I mean, one, it is a. tragedy that Nolan Wells lost his life. And certainly, I think everybody in the. Ocean Springs community, particularly. people that knew him very well, uh, believe that his family is entitled to. answers, right? and and you know this. having covered things like this before. Sometimes there are not satisfactory. answers at the end of a very thorough.

investigation. Um and so you know our. position has always been it's not. unreasonable for people to question and. and to seek those answers. What is. unreasonable is to use the absence of. certain answers as an excuse to lie. about other people. And so from our. vantage point really there there are two. tragedies that have unfolded here. one, the tragedy of Nolan Wells losing his. life, which which is in fact something. that is worthy of being mourned over. The other tragedy is the way that we. react to these types of stories where in.

the absence of answers or in vacuums, we. just make up or invent out of thin air. quote unquote evidence that is not. really evidence. And so I look at what. the grand jury said as saying, "Hey, look, we've examined all of the public. accusations that have been put out there. so far, and we find that the that all of. them are one thing. we find that there's. no evidentiary basis for any of them. So, if you want to think about it as. what the grand jury determined was what. didn't happen, I think the grand jury. determined what didn't happen. For all.

of the public accusations that my client. and some of the other young men that. were friends with Nolan that they had. some hand in his demise, that didn't. happen. The question that lingers, and I. think it's a fair question, is okay, once those two boats departed, what did. happen on the island with Nolan? I don't. have I don't begrudge anybody for. continuing to ask those questions. >> When you hear the DA saying in that vein. that she wants to push federal and state. lawmakers for legislation to make sure. nothing happens like what happened here,

I assume she means the response that. we've seen on social media and the. conspiracy theories and what exactly do. you interpret that to be? Well, I can. tell you what I interpreted or or or. what what we are looking at, which is we. think that section 230 has been. interpreted in a way that Congress never. intended it and creating a liability. shield for social media platforms. We. think the end result of that has allowed. for mass proliferation of defamation in. a way that the the legal system. currently does not have a solution for.

Um because a lot of these folks, as you. know, are judgment proof, right? And a. lot of them are spreading out uh under u. under under surnames and under under. false name pseudonyms. Um, and so the. the consequence of the current system is. that these these platforms have. algorithms that purposefully show. viewers the most salacious material that. purposely pay people to create salacious. material because it keeps people glued. to the screen and that there's no.

consequence even when they are aware. that what is being pushed is defamation. There's no consequence to these. platforms that allow for this kind of. mass proliferation of defamation. And so. at least from my vantage point, you. know, what we're looking at is one, we. think some of these courts that have. looked at section 230 haven't. interpreted it too broadly, that they've. given too much protection, and two, we. think Congress needs to act. >> So are you talking, that brings me a. point, where is the status of any uh. litigation or legal action you've taken. against people that you and your client.

believe have uh perpetuated false. narratives? Are you saying that you're. not allow you're finding a roadblock. because of where they were posted? Um is. it trying to go after the the internet. providers? I mean where what is the. status right now of uh any legal steps. you've taken against people? >> So so we look at it as a multi-level. thing, Jesse. So the first level is. certainly those people that directly. defame my client. Uh there are five. different individuals that have received. pre-litigation notices that have. directly defamed my client. We. anticipate two more this week. Um, and.

so we certainly are going to go after. those individuals and hold them. accountable. These are people that. spread what we consider the biggest. pieces of defamation either as a point. of origin or they amplified it because. they had the biggest platform available. to amplify it. Uh, I think there's a. second level of people that sent. signals, right, that kind of told people. that they should be uh engaging in. conspiracy theory. And candidly, we put. Mr. Trump in that category. Uh, we think. Mr. Trump was very irresponsible very. early on in the process um when he. started saying things that were false.

and creating a false narrative about the. nature of the investigation about how. many people went out about the nature of. this being a remote place about what. happened with Nolan's phone all of those. things are demonstrabably false and. created a narrative that I think was. damaging and sent a signal to folks and. then I think the third level are these. social media platforms and so u the. short answer is we plan to pursue. litigation against the people that. directly defamed our client. We think at. a minimum, Mr. Trump is morally culpable.

uh to what has happened to our clients. and maybe more than that. And then we. think that at some point Congress or the. courts have to address whether or not. social media platforms get to be. incubators for this kind of mass. defamation with no consequences. And. when I say judgment proof, I don't think. that's true of everybody, right? I don't. think it's true of some of the people. that we're going after. But what you're. talking about here is a situation where. you got tens of thousands of people. repeating things that are false that are. not only false but injurious. And to go.

after every one of those 10,000 people. is not feasible. It's particularly not. feasible when they are judgment proof. A. lot of these people don't have any. resources uh to start with. And so yeah, at some level the current system doesn't. allow for the kind of accountability. that needs to happen. The danger to that. is like we see it in the Lindsey Clancy. situation as well, Jesse. It's like. you're in a situation where people are. allowed to say without consequence. whatever they want to say and the truth. is being lost. That not only hurts the.

people that are being lied about, it. hurts the judicial process itself. the. ability to have a fair grand jury. proceeding or if you were going to bring. something in front of an actual jury to. make sure that they were impartial, that. they hadn't heard a hundred different. theories about what happened first, that's really being jeopardized by a. situation in which there's no. consequence for lying online. >> By the way, can you share whether or not. your client testified in front of the. grand jury?

>> My client has been fully cooperative. from the very beginning of this process. >> Okay. I'm not going to get into to what. is supposed to be a secret proceeding. >> Sure. Sure. Sure. >> But I would just say that my client has. been fully cooperative from the. beginning of this process, multiple. interviews, gave up his phone, you know, allowed access to his boat, allowed. access to his GPS, did all that without. criminal counsel. I know people have. called me criminal counsel. That's not. what I do. U I was hired specifically to. address defamation in this case. Um and. he did all that without requiring. warrants, too. And and that was also.

communicating with the DA's office. >> Yes. I mean, we we've been in. communication with the DA's office. >> Let me ask you this final point. Now. that the grand jury report has been. released, now that we're seeing the. findings, do you think this is going to. silence any of those rumors, any of. those voices? Do you think this is going. to be people are going to say, "Okay, you know, either I was wrong or let you. know, they they say this is a terrible. tragedy. This was an accident. there's. nothing more that needs to be.

investigated or do you think that this. is going to continue people to run with. theories and speculation? >> Look, I think there's a segment of our. society that is so enamored with. conspiracy theory that the more evidence. that they're wrong, the deeper they lean. into the conspiracy theory. And I don't. think we can convince some of those. folks. I think what we can do is try to. create an environment in which people. that are sane and rational seek the. truth and where what happens with when. the grand jury comes out and let's be.

honest about this grand jury. It's a. mixed race grand jury. There were 12. white members of the grand jury. There. were five African-American members of. the grand jury, two Hispanics, uh two. Native Americans, an Asian member of the. grand jury. So, this was a very diverse. grand jury that unanimously said there's. no credible evidence of any criminal. conduct here. It's also worth pointing. out though that Mr. Trump and his legal. team were explicitly asked for any. evidence during their investigation that. would have been relevant or probitative. to whether or not there was criminal.

conduct and wrote back that they did not. have any. Um, and so we're not only. talking about a situation in which a. diverse grand jury looked at this, we're. talking about a situation in which sort. of the initial perpetrator of some of. the narrative has admitted that they've. got no evidence of criminal conduct. And. I think that's very important for people. to understand. Are we going to convince. everybody? No. I think what you're going. to see happen though is that some of. those people's audiences are going to. shrink as folks that have been following. them realize that maybe they didn't know.

what they were talking about. I think. the other thing that matters to us or at. least matters to me is that I think. Mississippi has been maligned in a way. that is horribly unfair throughout this. process. And I think it was tactical. I. think the goal from the very beginning. was to suggest that either investigators. were incompetent or they were complicit. And the truth of the matter is the. investigator, Sheriff John Led better, never came out and said there wasn't. foul play. That is that is a falsehood. If you look at his early statements, he. says this is an active and ongoing. investigation. He's soliciting.

information from the public. He's. talking about the 60 witnesses at the. time that they had interviewed. He's. talking about the FBI's role. And so we. allowed for this narrative to be created. about the quality of the investigation. and then we layered on top of that a. number of falsehoods about missing. phones and deleted information and the. fact this this was some small group. >> None of those things were true. All of. that created an atmosphere that allowed. for a group of innocent young men to be.

dragged through the mud to have their. reputations ruined and candidly to be. exposed to real credible threat to their. life and safety. >> Yeah. And that's why you saw that. response from the DA which you don't. always see when there's a charging. decision or a lack of a charging. decision. I mean to put out a video. about that and I thought the key the key. point and we showed our audience this. too is where she said you know basically. like there is this speculation and. rumors against Mississippi's dark past. and it puts Mississippi in a bad light. that shouldn't be the case and I thought. that that was a really important point. to make and so look this is a big.

announcement I wanted to have you on. I. wanted to get uh a reaction from how. your client's doing for this. Uh. obviously I I don't believe that this. [music] story is going to go anywhere. I. think that people are still interested. and invested in it. I think there's. still some question marks, but [music]. uh I appreciate you taking the time, Russell Matino. Thank you. >> Thank you for having me. >> That's all we have for you right now. here on Sidebar. Everybody, thank you. [music] so much for joining us. Please. like and subscribe. I'm Jesse Weber. See. you next time.