Engelsk oversættelse

Ed Jackon fra Texas er dømt til livsvarig fængsel for væbnet røveri. Han blev arresteret efter at være blevet identificeret på billedet fra hans kørekort. Ed Jackson er 26 år gammel. Han er uddannet som ingeniør og har klaret sig selv, siden han forlod High School. For to år siden giftede han sig med en af sine klassekammerater, og han er nu far til en pige på et år.
Vi har fået tilladelse til at tale med ham i fængslet. Han viser sig at være en stilfærdig sort mand, som roligt kommer ind i lokalet og sætter sig ned for at tale med os. Han fortæller hvordan det blev sagt i retten at han havde en kriminel fortid, hvilket slet ikke var sandt. Han mener selv, at det stammer fra en anmeldelse af ham, som en 68 årig dame havde indgivet. Hun havde fundet det mistænkeligt at han ofte sad for sig selv og læste i den park hvor hun selv gik tur hver dag. Hun følte, at hun måtte gå til politiet med sin mistanke, da der blev begået et røveri i en restaurant i nærheden.
Han blev dømt, selv om der blev givet vidneudsagn om at han var på arbejde da røveriet fandt sted. Ed Jackson læner sig tilbage i stolen og sidder tavs et øjeblik, inden han fortsætter med at fortælle, at hans advokat forlod ham, da det viste sig, at alle hans penge var brugt. Ed Jackson tilføjer, at han føler sig taknemmelig over at NAACP nu har udpeget en advokat til at arbejde på hans appelsag. Han tror selv på at retfærdigheden til sidst vil sejre.

Ed Jackson from Texas is doomed to lifelong prison because of hold-up robbery. He was arrested after being identified on the picture from his drivers licence. Ed Jackson is 26 years old. He is educated as engineer and has done well since he left High School. Two years ago he married with one of his classmates and his is now father to a one year’s old girl.
We have got the permission to talk with him in prison. He appears to be a quiet black man, as he calm enters the room and sits down to talk with us. He tells about how it was said in the court that he had a criminal past, which was not correct at all. Self he claims that it comes from a report of him, which a 68 years old woman had send in. She thought it was suspicious that he often sat alone and read in that park where she self went for a walk every day. She felt that she had to go to the police with her suspect when a robbery was committed in a restaurant nearby.
He was doomed, even though there was given a testify about that he was on work that day when was robbery was committed. Ed Jackson leans back in the chair and sits silent one moment before he continues to talk about that his lawyer left him when it showed that all of his money was gone. Ed Jackson adds that he really fells graceful about that NAACP now has assigned a lawyer to work on his appeal case. He self believe in that the justice in the end will win.