Gretchen Swinn

I thank you for braving the really brutal sun.

It's a perfect metaphor for what we need.

We need the sunlight.

We need noise.

Reason, judicial process has failed us, has failed Robert.

And I have nothing but righteous rage on behalf of my client, Robert, because I know he's in the thing.

We have countless appeals, it feels, pending, trying to plan out what happens if a door slams, what other door can be opened.

I listened to the first episode of your podcast on Monday morning, and quite shockingly is a revelation about an unknown fact.

Now we have a name, and it's a big name.

I'm sorry if I sound agitated, but it was quite the shock to realize he was the judge that signed the arrest warrant and went on to preside over the entire trial.

I find it hard to imagine how someone wouldn't believe that this information shows that this judge had already made a decision that Robert was guilty.

The trial itself should be null and void.

We have won a battle, but we have certainly not won the war.

The bottom line is it says Robert is not going to be killed by the state of Texas next week.

I'm somewhat in shock, and I'm reminded when I first spoke to Robert nearly 10 years ago to tell him about the stay he had received in June of 2016, and he sounded like this little child and talking to me about a bag of chips.

Like, I, too, like, have this weight on my heart, and I'm struggling to process this and probably would like to go eat a bunch of chips or something.

The good news is, you know, we live to fight another day.

The bad news is the fight that has been so protracted is not over.

It certainly doesn't mean they could never set another execution date.

If we go through all this and again lose, he would be back in this position again.