i wondered at the time if our lack of familiarity as a culture and even in courtrooms with dn am technology and dna signs as part of it. when barry schect stood up there, how about that, mr. fong? i wondered then, these jurors are lost. you have to remember, this was in the backdrop of the rodney king acquittal of police officers and the riots in 92. 50 people were killed, 2,000 injured. part of l.a. was burning down. there was this awful tinder box with the afro american community and law enforcement in the early 90s. you had 11 afro american jurors on the case, you know, with o.j. simpson in all white, detectives and cops, you didn t have a chance. they could have videotaped the murder and the jury would have come back the same way.
i can t see the justification. if we re just reaping vengeance for somebody, i don t see the justification in that either. i talked to a lot of families of victims who didn t feel fulfilled after the execution took place. i can t speak for all the families of victims, but i know i ve talked to many. dr. allen alt and rachel maddow, thank you for staying with us. coming up, next, barry schect of the innocent project and barry. stay with us.
what about this piece of information tonight, barry? ed, i want to add one important factor listed about this case, the ballistics evidence put before the jury in an effort to tie a gun and motive to troy davis was unreliable and should never have gone before the jury. unreliable frick evidence. one of the jurors told the board of pardon and paroles, if she had known that evidence was unreliable, she would have never voted to execute him and played a lot role injury deliberations. i raise that because innocent project we have 270 post conviction dna exonerations and in many cases we usually find
so was kenny. it will prove kenny s innocent, just like in a rape case. how do you know the blood evidence still exists? because we re going to find it. and barry scheck is going to help. he s the innocence project in new york. and you re going to call him up and he s going to take your case? yes. larry: joining us now is barry schect. what do you recollect about this case, barry? this was unforgettable. meeting betty ann and her best friend from law school, it was just extraordinary. we had, as people will see in the movie, it s not just getting dna tests on the blood, that wasn t enough. we had to go out and we had to interview the witnesses, we had to reinvestigate the whole case. larry: did you take it right
i m going to get kenny out. there were no dna tests out. they only knew the murderer was type o, and so was kenny. it will prove kenny s innocent, just like in a rape case. how do you know the blood evidence still exists? because we re going to find it. and barry scheck is going to help. here, look. oh, i see. this is what he does. he has this innocence project in new york. and you re going to call him up and he s going to take your case? yes. larry: we re back with the stars of conviction. joining us now is barry schect. what do you recollect about this case, barry? this was unforgettable. meeting betty ann and her best friend from law school, it was just extraordinary. we had, as people will see in the movie, it s not just getting dna tests on the blood, that wasn t enough. we had to go out and we had to interview the witnesses, we had