case. and secondly, we argued that all of the evidence that we had amassed had shown that john thomson was innocent of the liuzza murder. michael and gordon filed their appeal in february of 2002. five months later they received the decision. i ll never forget it, a reporter called and said, what do you think about this decision? and i asked her to read it to me, and i said, skip to the end, skip to the end. the last line read, conviction and sentence reversed. i called gordon into my office. i couldn t get the words out. i remember it was july 17th, 4:30 in the afternoon, i i was tongue tied i said, i couldn t he said, new trial? i said yes. we hugged, we were ecstatic. as michael and gordon began preparing for the retrial, they got an unsolicited offer from the d.a. s office, harry connick senior had retired and the new d.a. ran for office on an anti-corruption campaign.
attempting to stage his own death or disappearance, and we didn t believe that he would stay missing for very long. in february of 2002, we get a 17-year-old male individual who came to us and said that mr. burgert was not dead, he had been living up in the woods with his girlfriend, tracy brockwood. tracy brockwood was having an affair with david. and they were members of this militia group known as project 7. project 7 believed that if big brother or big government becomes too oppressive, they were going to fight back. being a citizen of the republic is not a spectator sport. the only way that you keep government in line is if you are an active participant. good morning.
the sheriff s department went down to the river and found, you know, a tackle box open and a rod there. it looked like mr. burgert had fallen into the river and drowned, but it was not a place where one would slip and fall so it appeared to us at that point that mr. burgert was attempting to stage his own death or disappearance, and we didn t believe that he would stay missing for very long. in february of 2002, we get a 17-year-old male individual who came to us and said that mr. burgert was not dead. he had been living up in the woods with his girlfriend, tracy brockwood. tracy brockwood was having an affair with david. and they were members of this militia group known as project 7. project 7 believed that if
conviction had been used to keep john from being able to testify in his own defense in the murder case. and secondly, we argued that all of the evidence that we had amassed had shown that john thomson was innocent of the liuzza murder. michael and gordon filed their appeal in february of 2002. five months later they received the decision. i ll never forget it, a reporter called and said, what do you think about this decision? and i asked her to read it to me, and i said, skip to the end, skip to the end. the last line read, conviction and sentence reversed. i called gordon into my office. i couldn t get the words out. i remember it was july 17th, 4:30 in the afternoon, i i was tongue tied i said, i couldn t he said, new trial? i said yes. we hugged, we were ecstatic. as michael and gordon began preparing for the retrial, they got an unsolicited offer from the d.a. s office, harry connick
in january of 2002, david disappeared. his wife said that he went fishing. the sheriff s department went down to the river and found, you know, a tackle box open and a rod there. it looked like mr. burgert had fallen into the river and drowned, but it was not a place where one would slip and fall, so it appeared to us at that point that mr. burgert was attempting to stage his own death or disappearance, and we didn t believe that he would stay missing for very long. in february of 2002, we get a 17-year-old male individual who came to us and said that mr. burgert was not dead, he had been living up in the woods with his girlfriend, tracy brockwood.