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He had attempted suicide and spent a month in isolation. On the morning of May 21, 1980, Katherina Reitz Brow was murdered in her Massachusetts home. "I told them I never killed nobody," Kenny Waters said. “He always made me feel like I could be anything, do anything,” she said. "But three years after the murder, Waters was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. But his sister said that he enjoyed every minute of his freedom. That’s what I was here to do, was to help and be of service to people who are innocent.’ ” In a television interview at the Los Angeles premiere, Mr. Goldwyn said: “I’ve been working on this for nine years, which is a little less than half the time Betty Anne Waters spent fighting to get her brother out of prison. Waters said. Scheck said: “It’s not everyone who gets a movie made about her life. She speaks out against the death penalty, lobbies for legislation on criminal-justice reform and evidence preservation, and meets with prisoners who have been freed.“It makes me happy that I can help people who’ve helped me,” she said. As an attorney Betty Anne Waters has a 100 percent success rate. “I would have caved,” Mr. Graham said. Betty Anne Waters (Originaltitel: Conviction) ist ein US-amerikanisches Filmdrama von Regisseur Tony Goldwyn aus dem Jahr 2010, basierend auf wahren Begebenheiten. There was never any lack of love.” Ms. “That’s not what I wanted to do,” she said. Waters, it was the cruelest kind of fate. "How could I? The main suspect was Kenny Waters, Betty Ann's younger brother.

So Betty Ann, a high-school dropout, enrolled in community college, then on to law school, and became her brother's attorney.Betty Ann said that she never had a moment when she wanted to give up. No fame.“As I got to know her, I understood it,” said Barry Scheck, a lawyer who assisted her on the case.

Waters at his pub as a waitress, bartender or manager for much of the past two decades, said, “She’s a very private person; she doesn’t like the limelight.” Sitting in a booth at Aidan’s on a recent sunny afternoon with the water glistening behind her, though, Ms.

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But after he was released in 2001 — and the flurry of news attention faded — Ms. No law firm. She became a lawyer to get her brother out of jail.” Like Erin Brockovich before her, Ms. I feel that he's here," Betty Ann said.Betty Ann Waters doesn't practice law any more, but still fights for others wronged by the criminal justice system - a sister who continues to live by her convictions.Watch CBS News anytime, anywhere with the our 24/7 digital news network. Waters, a moon-faced woman with bangs and a strong Boston-infused accent, is not crazy about the whole Hollywood thing. Waters had only a job as a waitress, her high school equivalency, two kids and a stack of bills when she set out to rescue her brother Kenneth Waters, who served 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Waters is content to live on a quiet street here in a house she shares with one of her sisters, the older of her two sons, his fiancée and their 7-month-old baby. "I had a five-day trial and I was away for the rest of my life," Waters said.Betty Ann said that Kenny was the life of the party, and admits he was a troublemaker. She likes living just a few blocks from Aidan’s, where she keeps the books in a cluttered office above the bar. “I’m tired right now. Now she has a college degree, a law degree and the stunning achievement of having succeeded, after nearly two decades, in overturning her brother’s conviction. Her story began almost 30 years ago, after the brutal murder of a 48-year-old Massachusetts woman. The only time she has dabbled in the law since her brother’s release was when the pub had trouble renewing its liquor license. Waters was freed, he fell off a wall while taking a shortcut home through the dark, hit his head and died. Charged with the murder and robbery of a next-door neighbor, Mr. "I just wish he was here to see this movie. And already it is clear that Ms. © 2010 CBS. That’s all that she did it for.”Six months after Mr. After so many years behind bars, the world was new to him, she added. So any time I started feeling bad about the ups and downs of getting a movie made, I just thought about Betty Anne’s determination and my obligation to her to get this done.” The film captures the childhood closeness between Ms. She now volunteers for the Innocence Project, which Mr. Scheck co-directs and which works to exonerate the wrongfully accused. But others are surprised at how little transformed she is by her experience, how normal it seems to see her at Aidan’s these days, or at home cooking meatballs and apple pie for her large extended family.“I just want to be a grandmother,” she said last week, after chatting with the fiddlers who play at Aidan’s during the lunch rush.Mr. It was Kenny’s idea.” Her brother pushed her toward the law. Waters, 56, returned to Aidan’s, to the simple life of tending to her family and the pub where she is now general manager. Waters speaks of the loss without self-pity or bitterness. That makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck. But Ms.

Waters was convicted in 1983 and incarcerated after a failed appeal in 1985. “He had never been to such a big store before.” Ms. Waters’s advocacy and her interest in the criminal justice system are clear legacies of her fight for her brother. She won. It was Ms. Waters’s intense, single-minded commitment to her brother — conveyed in her insistent correspondence — that caught the attention of the Innocence Project. Two of nine children and just one year apart, they were co-conspirators, cutting school to steal candy and cupcakes, then breaking into neighbors’ houses to play house.

“I’m not going to say this is fun for me; I’ve had fun moments,” she said.

The amazing thing is, she’s the same person. Her body was found at 10:45 a.m. there were bloodstains throughout the house, and her purse, some jewelry, and an envelope where she kept cash were all missing. “The letters were pretty extraordinary,” Mr. Scheck said, “because she’s explaining that she went to college and law school to get her brother out of jail.