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stressed the importance of taking unpopular cases. and then days immediately afterwards the news got worse for tim hennis, and he had no alibi and angela hennis was out of town all weekend. on saturday morning, he dragged a barrel out in the middle of the backyard and started burning stuff. something his neighbors had never seen him do before. i don t know what it was, but something that he burned. the lady who owns the cleaners and he said that man that you all arrested brought that black members only jacket into my cleaners friday, and didn t look suspicious to me. the bank card of katy eastburn had been used twice. friday night and saturday morning, $150 each time and they found out that he was late on his rent by a tune of $300 which he paid on monday. and there was a lot of
temper of his, he lost it. billy richardson emphasized the lack of physical evidence to the jury, but prosecutors argued that the absence of blood on hennis members only jacket was evidence of guilt. they kept saying that there was no blood because he took the jacket to the dry cleaners. the jacket was a damning piece of evidence. and richardson also undercut pat cohen who had i.d. d him leaving the eastburn home. richardson videotaped him in a tour of the crime scene. when you start to listen to story, he is all over the place. and i brought my girlfriend some roses. you brought her some roses on sunday? no, it was candy. no, it was roses. we kept asking, are you sure about that? and he said, well, you are right, now that i am out here, i probably didn t see that. no, no, no i can t see that. but on the witness stand, cone cast aside doubt. he said that the lawyers have
he would get the death penalty times three. tim hennis could hear his father sobbing in the courtroom. he had never heard that before. when that jury said that he is guilty, you still had faith that he was telling the truth? always. never once. not a doubt in your mind? no, never. that time i felt like i did, because i felt that we got our man, and this is the one case that truly did deserve the death penalty. tim hennis had spent his entire career serving the military, and now he was serving time on death row. but not long after his arrival hennis received a mysterious letter. it said, mr. hennis, i did the
army to do it for you. but the judge denied the request to test other items. i cannot imagine a judge in a civilian court not allowing that. you have the evidence, why not test it. without dna results pointing to a different suspect, hennis lawyers decided to the offer an alternate explanation to the sperm. in the end they threw out the theory that tim hennis had consensual sex with mrs. eastburn. and when he said that, you could feel the love leaving the room. everybody went, i don t believe he is saying that. there are certain things that you can do in front of the jury, and certain things that you can t. it is not how i would have done it. the 14-person court-martial jury declared unanimously that timothy hennis was guilty of murdering katy eastburn and her children. and the next task would be to