dna testing which could exonerate cooper. kevin cooper kept saying, i m not guilty. do dna testing now that you can do it. if it shows that i am guilty, you can go ahead and execute me. i walkered out of there thinking, whoa, they ve really got a case i need to think about. san bernardino s current district attorney michael ramos was handling cooper s appeals. we felt that the ongoing requests by defense counsel in this case was just another delay tactic. there was no evidence at all that anybody but kevin cooper committed these horrendous murders. none. but in the early 2000s, new legislation in california would grant kevin cooper the right to dna testing. all these years that my case was in the appeals crt,