people always want to believe that somebody is innocent but it is really dangerous years after the fact to get a new trial for somebody, for some legal flaw like maybe his lawyer didn t work hard enough or maybe some witness was unreliable. in fact, gwen gurley, who recan ted her original testimony against jim duckett now claims she was coerced into recanting by an investigator work for the duckett family. he was at my house. if i was hanging up clothes he was behind the clothesline. he was always around. he never let my life at peace. so i told him what he wanted to hear. what he told me happened, i said okay, it happened. the only reason i even agreed to do this interview was just on record to let it be known that the last time i saw teresa
as a matter of fact, i never offered her any deal whatsoever. after learning that gwen gurley had recanted her testimony, marshal also found that duckett had an alibi. he told me he could never have been there at the murder because he got a call at the jiffy stop, another convenience store, and went over there around the time the little girl was murdered. he jotted everything down in his little spiral, the traffic stop, activity. the notebook has her information in it that i wrote down that night. said it is in that log sheet introduced at trial? i said no, i don t know what happened to it. it was taken by the police. when they took the notebook and impounded the patrol car,
herald. the courts are reading this. everybody reads it. people always want to believe that somebody is innocent but it is really dangerous years after the fact to get a new trial for somebody, for some legal flaw like maybe his lawyer didn t work hard enough or maybe some witness was unreliable. in fact gwen gurley who recanted her original testimony against duckett now claims she was coerced into recanting by an investigator working for the duckett family. he was at my house. he was always around. he never let my life at peace. so i told him what he wanted to hear. what he told me happened, i said okay, it happened. the only reason i even agreed to do this interview was just on record to let it be known that the last time i saw trees
if they use gwen gurley as a key witness to put me here and if she is no longer telling their lies that should account for something. i can remember when we talked to gwen, this is great stuff, she is recanting, she is the only person who saw her in his car. so we think this is going to get us a new trial. turn around every now and then i get a little bit hungry and there s nothing really good around turn around every now and then i get a little bit tired of living off the taste of the air turn around, barry finally, i have a manly chocolatey snack and fiber so my wife won t give me any more flack i finally found the right snack
nine years after james duckett had been sentenced to death, the key witness in his prosecution, gwen gurley was prepared to testify that she had lied at his original trial. but the presiding judge put a stop to gwen s admission, warning her of perjury charges if she changed her testimony. judge lockett told me if i perjured myself that i could be sentenced to the maximum of i think it was seven years for each perjury. so i pled the fifth. we asked the judge to grant immunity and he just didn t do it. how can you kill somebody, how can you execute somebody and you have a state s key witness that wants to tell the truth and yet because it is not what the state wants, they re going on threaten her with perjury and send her back to prison. what kind of system is that? while duckett s appeal was