hennis. the medical examiner s slide came back on every marker to the defendant, tested by the crime lab. you had two chains of custody, the defense could not attack the slide. for prosecutors, the dna results swept away all previous doubts. they replayed some of the old trials, the old references. pat cone seeing timothy hennis coming down the driveway. the fact that hennis took the members only jacket to the dry cleaners, using the atm card. you had numerous evidence tying him to the crime. for hennis defenders, the prosecution s case had serious flaws. there s a ton of physical evidence in that house that they still can t explain. they found a head hair in miss eastburn s bed.
cast aside any doubts. cone said these lawyers have been tricking me, they ve been pressuring me. i know i picked out the right guy. finally prosecutors presented a surprise witness, a woman who said that two days after the murder, she had seen the killer using katie eastburn s stolen bank card. all of a sudden the state introduced lucille cook, little old lady. used a card on saturday morning after the killer did. she had told us she couldn t remember. she said, i didn t tell you the truth the first time. there was a big tall white man, mustache, blond headed guy and he knot in got in the tiny white car. that was the man that used the card right before i did. pointed to tim hennis. the jury is sitting there looking at her. after she testified, i went into the bathroom and just threw up. the jury deliberated for three days. it was a quarter of 5:00 on a friday afternoon and the jury knocked. he was guilty on three counts.
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billy richardson showed the lack of physical evidence to the jury, but prosecutors argued the absence of blood on hennis members only jacket was evidence of his guilt. they kept saying there was no blood because he took his jacket to the dry cleaners. the jacket was a damning piece of evidence. richardson also undercut eyewitness pat cone who id d hennis leaving the home. richardson videotaped pat cohen during a tour of the crime scene. when you start listening to his story he s all over the place. bought my girlfriend some roses. you bought her some rose on sunday? no it wasn t roses. it was candy. not roses. we started asking are you sure about this? he said, now i m out here looking at it, you re right, i probably couldn t see all this. no, no, no, no, no, i can t say that. on the witness stand cone
it was the longest 3 1/2 minutes. why would the killer wait 3 1/2 minutes until someone sees him? one of the jurors said they got in the jury room and laughed at her. now it was time for richardson to go after the state s star witness, pat cone. after some soul searching, shawn buckner agreed to testify against his old friend. he testified that pat cone was extremely drunk that night, that in addition to that he had doubts about what he saw. patrick had told shawn buckner, i feel like i m sending an innocent man to prison. but richardson knew he had to answer one last question. in the back of their mind, the jury still saying, well, the kids saw something. if it wasn t your client, who was it? so richardson called his next witness. the back doors burst open and everyone in the courtroom turned and looked around. the prosecutor says, who is that? that was as close to a perry