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don zelenka asked have you ever done anything in the course of your life that would reflect poorly on the legal profession? and i said yes. diana feared that if her story became public, it would ruin her reputation and destroy elmore s chances for a new trial. in 1975 at the age of 17, diana ran away to new orleans with a few friends. it was a horrible time. my sister had been taken away by the state of texas. it had to do with sexual abuse that i suffered. i was 17. i didn t know how to deal with stuff like that. so i left. i met these three people. went to new orleans with them and after a little bit, i wanted to go home. i didn t have any money and there was a plan.
the 4th circuit has the reputation of being the most conservative federal appellate court in the country. so we felt our chances of prevailing were very slight. in yet another face-off with donald zelenka, the court s circuit three-judge panel heard oral arguments in september of 2010, and remarkably, they came down hard on zelenka. the time of death, we were locking it down because the defendant was seen at 9:30 headed that direction. locking down the time of death based on what his alibi was. i thought you locked down time of death by science. the judges have moral righteous indignation in their voices and what they re saying. you put in evidence there was hairs found on the bed there was a big part of the conviction? yes, it was. not one photograph was taken where the hairs were supposed to be. does that make sense to you? well, i don t know. do you think that makes a difference now that we know he is mentally retarded? no, not at all. in this case, this is j
the whole episode became a distant memory until donald zelenka confronted her with it nearly 25 years later. i was like, you know what? you opened the door. i m walking through it. let s do this. i m going to tell it all. not just the part you want to hear. but the judge in the case, visibly disgusted by zelenka s tactic, disallowed the deposition. diana could continue her fight for elmore s life. at elmore s trial, prosecutor willie t. had claimed that negroid hair had been found on the body. when the petition had asked to see the hair it had gone missing. now 16 years later, the hair suddenly turned up. the prosecution has an obligation to turn over to the defense anything which is favorable. in this case, they didn t do it at the time of trial. as it turns out, none of the hairs were negroid at all. they were all caucasian hair, and they did not belong to mr.
she was determined to make sure that i did my job. the state was represented by donald zelenka, who reportedly once argued that women who had abortions in the third trimester could be executed for murder. and elmore s fate would be decided by judge ernest kinard. one of the first witnesses called was james gilliam, the inmate who said elmore confessed to him in jail. but in the small town of greenwood, both elmore and gilliam new bishop spearman. and before the hearing, gilliam told spearman the truth. james gilliam and i go back i guess all our life. one night he called me and he told me i lied and my conscience is bothering me. gilliam said he made a deal with the prosecutor to testify against elmore in exchange for release from prison. but with elmore facing the electric chair, he felt bad what he had done. i said james, make it right. and i got excited. i felt like once this comes out