Justin Balding

But it's been filed, but it's going to cost a lot of money to pursue.

And then there's a question really about how much money they'll be able to raise in order to pursue the suit.

I had a sense of that too as well, Andrea.

You know, it's so difficult because you have to put yourself in the jury's shoes.

Obviously, what we present is a distilled version of what the jury heard in the court, although we obviously hit all of the major points.

But I think the defense attorneys were very effective in the courtroom at raising reasonable doubt in all aspects, whether it was the DNA, the handprints, and the so-called confession.

I mean, from the prosecution point of view, they were very clear right from the outset that this case was about DNA, a handprint, and a confession, as they saw it, or admissions that Tony Hayes made.

And on the DNA, this happened in a time before there was DNA processing, at least in Wapaka County.

And, you know, over the years, they tested and retested.

But at the same time, the standards for DNA evolved.

I think it's a very good question.

It's something the prosecution feels very strongly about.

They feel like that because they were denied the possibility of presenting Jeff Thiel's DNA evidence, they felt that the defense should not have been able to name Jeff Thiel as a third-party culprit in this case.

They felt that that was unfair and prejudicial.

And I think it's really a question for the judge.

I did speak with one juror.

Actually, I reached out to all the jurors.

One wanted to engage with me and talked about the deliberations and the process of the deliberations and had told me that...

She didn't think that the Jeff Teel DNA would actually have had a big effect on the jury.

That was her point of view.