Mindy Montford

But when Maurice Pierce gives his statement originally, one of the detectives comes in and reviews it and says, no, this just does not add up.

And by the way, the gun, they tested the gun, and it was inconclusive.

So they basically let Maurice Pierce go.

And in the report, initially, it says, is cleared as a suspect.

Yes.

I think that's very fair to say they were convinced that there were these two confessions that were taken separately, separate cities by different investigators.

And the statement seemed to have

incriminating information that was consistent in both of those statements.

And so ultimately the judge found that those were admissible in court.

And then you had two separate juries review those confessions, spend hours on those confessions and then deliberate.

And they found them both guilty in separate juries.

No, that's that's exactly right.

And I think if you talk to the families today, they'll even tell you with this new information, they don't quite know if they should believe it because they believe this other information for so long.

But I think they felt that with two different juries returning verdicts of guilty that they had the right guys.

And I believe that they did believe that they had the right people.

Well, actually, it's even more traumatic for the families because the first thing that happened was the Supreme Court, actually, the United States Supreme Court changed its ruling saying that you had to be a certain age before you'd be eligible for death row.

And that's why Springsteen's was commuted to life.

So that was the first thing that happened where the families had to deal with him getting commuted to life.

And then the second thing that happened was another Supreme Court

hearing, which was talking about the confessions themselves.