had gone missing before the first trial. army, paperwork is everything. they have paperwork for paperwork. we looked for that thing and looked for it. there was a checkout sheet for every day but that day. the prosecutor had a field day. but before the second trial, richardson discovered why the paperwork had gone missing. the reason they couldn t find it is because the prosecutors had it. they didn t make a copy of it and leave it, they just took it. so this piece of evidence that probably would have exonerated him in 1986 was kept in the prosecutor s custody all that time. richardson also uncovered information that would undermine eyewitness pat cone. pat cone had helped them out in between trials. he was arrested using a stolen bank card. on another occasion, patrick cone was drinking and disruptive and the state dropped the case. he was known to tell people that the state couldn t touch him because he was a prime witness. pat is not a strong-willed person. nice guy.