Ashley Boyson
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58 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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He was trying to have it just be self-defense. And yet the gun that he brought, it was a present that Candy gave him that he kept at his parents' house that was his only gun that had a laser pointer. So it was one of those, like, a lot of people said, no, this is first degree. You went to your parents' house, got a specific gun, had it in your hoodie pocket.
So when Candy was on the stand, my stomach was just in knots and I just had to pinch myself. It was very, very triggering, but I couldn't look away. Like I just had to watch it.
And her story is they went and had sex in some new neighborhood. She's talking about their relationship. She's talking about that night. The person dead, everything can be brought up about them, every weakness they've ever had, every struggle they've had. So she got to talk about whatever she wanted about Emmett.
They stayed together. Even in the middle of court, they'd be like, I love you and like whisper to each other.
Luckily they took an interview with her the night it happened. She told all of what happened exactly. She said there was a pop, pop, pause, pop, and everything's on video. And then he got out 28 days later, went home to her for a full week without any stipulations. And so what the theory is, is they had time to kind of plan out a new story of what happened.
And that's kind of the story she brought to court. The new story was, oh, I actually heard a pop, pop, pop.
She was up there for two days because her story didn't match what she had said the night of, and they just kept asking her questions over and over and over. And the judge at the end was like, jury, anything she said here, I just want you to discredit everything she said. We'll just show you the video footage of the night.
The judge said she is the most discreditable witness he's ever called to his stand ever.
I actually requested probably nine times to be able to talk to him. but they never approved it because anything I would have said could have been used against me in court. I wanted to tell him how it felt to have a four-year-old who didn't sleep for a year and to have little children that would come and say, mom, what if the bad guy comes in and takes it?
Like I wanted him to know what his choice had done to me and my kids.
I ran into Candy once at a restaurant. When I saw her, I ran into the bathroom and was just like, okay, this is it. I get to talk to her. I get to tell her how it felt. I went up to her table and And I didn't say a word. I just like my body was shaking and I just stared at her. I just had this like feeling washed over me. She doesn't care how it felt for you.
They're doing amazing. They're successful. They're just out living life. And that was the goal. And I mean, they have fears come up and we have to work through trust issues sometimes. And just like everybody else, you know, the world is sometimes kind of hard to live in. But I see them showing up anyway. And I am just so proud to be their mom. I'm proud of the people they're becoming.
And when I turned it into a book, it was mainly because my grandma was printing off every story that I wrote and sending it to all of her friends. And I was like, OK, there's got to be an easier way, Grandma.
I wanted to hug every single person who had sent me their story because I would sit on my bed at night and just ball and just read their stories. And like, how are people so strong? How is the human spirit still alive? Like, how are we still functioning? Because everybody's got a hard, hard story and I don't want them to be alone in theirs. So here we go.
And we just kind of like throw up events and meet together and cry together and learn from each other.
The nonprofit is called A Reason to Stand. The purpose of it was just to help anyone who's ever felt broken not feel alone.
I literally had a man in chains in front of me. And I didn't realize I also was just bound by the fears of what this experience told me I could live in. And letting go of... the wrongs that people have done to you. I know sometimes like you want justice, but mercy is also part of healing and just letting go and knowing that you're going to be watched over.
And in the end, you're going to understand some of the things you went through.
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