Proven Innocent
Fridays 9:00 PM on FOXProven Innocent Season 1 Episode 7: "Living and Dying in East Cleveland" Quotes
It takes them two seconds to lock someone up and an eternity to admit they're wrong.
Maddie
There's so much information people know, but the streets aren't talking.
Ray
Devon: I'm gonna die right here behind this.
Maddie: Devon. I don't know what it's like to be on death row, but I know what it's like to be hopeless. I was eight years in, nothing but bars in front of me. All I had was my truth. I DIDN'T DO THIS.
You don't see it, do you? You don't care about me. You just show up when you want to be the hero.
Levi
Everyone knows everything in this town. Just nobody's gonna say what that everything is.
Nancy
Easy: I needed something more.
Irene: More than your family?
Easy: That's not what I meant.
Therapist: Easy. Let me ask you this. Can some of what you need come from your family?
Easy: Yes. Of course.
Therapist: Irene, what do you think?
Irene: Honestly, I don't know what to think anymore.
They can't have a campaign headquarters in my office.
Bellows
I swear on my momma's grave I didn't kill no cop. I don't even own a gun.
Devon
Death is the ultimate punishment. It is also proof that our criminal justice system is about revenge.
Violet
Amina: Oh please. There ain't no ending anything when you come from an underprivileged and dying community.
Maddie: If someone needs our help, we don't give a damn where they come from.
Amina: Good. An innocent man, Devon Watkins, is on death row for murdering a cop. He's not famous and he's poor as dirt. You ready to take on the case everyone else is too afraid to take?
Success comes from experience. Easy and I use what happened to me in the justice system as motivation. I lived the hell. We don't want another person to go through that.
Madeline
