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the judge ruled in their favor. the privacy act trumps my constitutional rights. now running out of options, c.j. turned to the court of public opinion, creating an online petition to demand the release of the dna results. the petition is just asking the d.a. s office to either release the results of the dna evidence to the defense or to exonerate kenneth clair. that s why we have 161,000 people, because it s a logical question. i had plans on talking writing letters to obama and jerry brown because they re the next avenues. over the years i have been trying to create some type of exposure like that. my way of dealing with people when it come to my case, i let them read. you know, i don t try to explain the case to them. i m going to let you read. i m going to let the evidence speak for itself. then when you read about it,
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.
he had a witness. that night i went to the pub. that s where i met curtis sleed. every thursday that s where i would meet him at. we d shoot pool, drank beer, watch a game that was on television. then i had to find me somewhere to sleep. that was that night. the public defender s office was saying they couldn t find curtis lee because there were asian people with the last name of lee and there were too many of them and they couldn t single it out. but they weren t really looking. i took the case and found curtis lee in about three or four days. we ve been trying to get a hold of you because you are one of his alibis. mr. clair said that he was with you that night when they accused him. okay. that could be some truth in this. i did live in santa ana and i did go out. i was going to clubs at that time. that could have been possible,
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.