Jack Lawrence
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And the car had not even been looked over by police yet.
They had not gone through that car, sweep that car for evidence.
It was cleaned out and sold and got rid of.
A report is actually created for rendering criminal assistance against her and it's sent to the prosecutor's office with a suggestion for charges and it goes away and she becomes their key witness.
Two of the jury members who have been interviewed post this conviction and have obviously found out this information, both of them have said that this would have completely changed their opinion.
And they've said it took seven attempts to come to a final decision.
Seven attempts for them to all come to the same realisation and one of the jurors said that he initially voted not guilty but he said eventually he came back to her testimony and he just looked at her, obviously it's this now widow who's got a child that she's going to have to raise by herself and looked at her and said, you know what, she was so adamant, so adamant about this, it was this young man that committed it and that's basically the only thing that really...
And the biggest thing I think we need to look at here is the fact that
20 he's nearly served his entire sentence he's got two and a half years left on this 30 year sentence the fact that he is still in prison after all this has come out and that no one has gone you know what this has got so many holes in it it's got to beg the question whether or not someone's looking at this and going okay there is obviously issues here
But we've got a bigger issue here, guys, because this was this detective's very first case.
How many other cases did he work on past this case?
If we overturn this conviction, this is going to open the floodgates of a 20-year career.
You know, if it comes out that this detective falsified stuff to get you put away, then that just opens the floodgates to anyone he's ever been involved with when it comes to an arrest.
It doesn't just open up for retrials and everything or to relook at every case, but then it opens up to lawsuits.
I feel like a lot of the time it doesn't come down to what's right or wrong.
It comes down to, well, hold on, what's going to happen if...