crime. scott moxley, along with c.j. ford, believed the case against kenneth clair was full of holes, and they soon came to believe that the most damning evidence against clair had been bought and paid for by the orange county d.a. s office. to give than to receive.ter some may disagree. others won t believe it. and some just won t have the words. join t-mobile and get the samsung galaxy s9 free. right? but hurry offer ends soon. our because of smoking.ital. but we still had to have a cigarette. had to. but then, we were like. what are we doing? the nicodermcq patch helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. nicodermcq. you know why, we know how.
i was 17 when they sent me to angola. first time i was ever arrested. then i took $12. and they sent me there to angola. that s a nightmare in itself, there. but when i got out of angola, i wasn t the same. after prison, clair went to california, but his troubles with the law continued. i wasn t the same. but man, you go back and look at my arrest record, my arrest record is a joke. the crimes that i may have, the crimes that i have, it wasn t, it wasn t violent. it s petty stuff. i m not a violent person. he has done time in louisiana for committing a robbery. we also have pretty strong evidence that he committed a rape in louisiana. the victim of that rape was so
going to visits, just that daily routine there. then i was believing in the system, thinking that you know, eventually the case is going to be overturned because i know i didn t do this. in 2004, after nearly two decades of failed appeals, a friend of clair s hired private investigator c.j. ford. c.j. went to death row to meet kenneth clair face to face. when i first met kenneth clair, he was angry. he thought that he had been betrayed and nobody was helping him with his case. i do wrongful conviction cases. i do cold cases. i m trying to look for the couple people that we keep on talking about fall through the cracks. and they really are innocent. for c.j. clair s case fell into a familiar pattern he d seen among santa ana police. it seemed like it was a typical case that was going on in the 80s.
make me mad. they told me that if i m lying about it they re going to throw my ass in jail for accessory to murder. what you fail to realize, how the mother [ muted ] police proved i was there. ain t no [ muted ] body seen me go in there and leave out of there. that s what i m saying. kenneth clair was charged with murder. shortly after his arrest the case against clair got even stronger. we were reading a newspaper and clair s picture was in there. my mom goes do you see anybody that looks familiar there? i pointed out kenneth clair and i said yeah, that s the guy that was at our house. she d been strangled and stabbed. and that s what jarrod saw.
caught pauline at a very vulnerable point in her life and they used her. they gave her a story to tell, and she did her best to follow that script. scott sanders has investigated corruption in the o.c. d.a. s office for years and believes both peggy and pauline were manipulated in clair s case. what i saw that was important was how particularly they were treating a couple of the critical witnesses in the case. you look at pauline flores s case, the warrant got taken care of. and somehow mike jacobs was able to essentially keep that from a jury. mike jacobs, who prosecuted clair s trial, also made an undisclosed deal with peggy hessling. shortly after mr. clair gets charged miss hessling gets charged with a felony case involving welfare fraud. you see these notations about special info, and it shows up at least three times in the docket. that pretty clearly leads back to the clair case.