Michael Ramos

Family of four with a young boy who was an overnight guest.

Four of them died.

One survived even though his throat had been cut.

It's very hard for the system to try to correct a mistake.

I think they got the wrong guy.

I am 100% certain Kevin Cooper committed these murders.

The murder victims were all mutilated.

They were a close-knit family of four.

Brutal and bloody.

Yes.

During his stay in the hospital, Josh twice saw a picture of Cooper on television.

Both times, he said Cooper was not one of the killers.

It doesn't give me pause at all because you're talking about a sending judge of the Ninth Circuit Judges Court of Appeals, which is, with all due respect, a very liberal circuit.

The majority opinion was not only guilty, overwhelmingly guilty.

I'm Nicholas Kristof.

I write op-ed columns for The New York Times.

I had never read an opinion like this, a respected circuit court judge arguing that somebody on death row had been framed.

Prosecutors kind of seized upon him as...

You know, he's sent by central casting.

And I think that made it a lot harder for Kevin Cooper to be tried fairly for this crime.