thick. >> it was the first major judgment to go joe's way since he'd been convicted. >> the way to get a new trial was to show a constitutional violation had occurred. in other words, the failure to turn over exculpatory evidence, evidence that tended to prove he was innocent, would have mattered to a jury. >> i took every page and i went through line by line. >> some of the most compelling evidence concerns stoney lewis, including police reports about suspicious activity at stoney's apartment the morning tony klann was killed. >> the lady that lived next door to stoney heard a loud, violent argument on, get this, saturday morning. she called the police. they hid that from us. >> there's witness statements again in police and prosecutor files. i think it was an older couple said they heard someone say, "let's dump the body in the basement."