right. i ve actually prosecuted cases where somebody was killed for far less than that. it seems like a leap to go from forging checks to cold-blooded murder. oh, absolutely. it s, you know, zero to murder in 3. 5 seconds. it s it s not the usual situation. it wasn t the usual situation because it didn t happen. that s what isaiah s defense attorney mark phillips said. he argued the prosecution had been fixated on isaiah from the start and had built a case out of guesses, nothing more. we had no physical evidence. they had no gun. they had no bullet. they had no casing. and that blue towel investigators found at the crime scene? the dna testing they did on that towel showed that none of isaiah hagan s dna was present. though there was one thing that was plain to see isaiah s lies. right there in the interrogation video. the prosecution played the entire nine and half hours of it to the jury.
testifying, claiming that police had threatened him with jail time, if he did not say that cory was a shooter. he goes, you know what, i can do this. would i just testified to is not the truth. i was told to say it by these detectives. i didn t see cory do anything. next, norwood tracked down the prosecution star witness. he told him, he had lied to. when he identified cory s killer. his claim is that the police pressured him to say it, and then, the prosecutor got him to the trial, getting him to say it. then, there was cory s friend, who had been with him the night of the shooting, ben king. the one who said on that interrogation video that cory did it, but king said, he had told police twice before, that cory did not do it. he didn t do, it we do, and cory do it.
a 16-year-old told police, he saw the shooter. it was cory. police arrested corey, and charged him with first degree murder. i was taken to the homicide division, and the detective was, like you are going to tell us who did this. and i was like, man, i ain t did nothing. at trial, thomas became the prosecution star witness, and prosecutors had more evidence. they played an interrogation video, of cory s friend, who was with him that night s. in which, he to, told detectives, that cory was the killer. cory took the stand in his own defense, and testified that he tried to help the victim. not kill him. i can remember the da, said if they don t believe you, you are going to the penitentiary for the rest of your life. and i just, i said yeah but the truth will come out. the jury did not believe
ohio thank you. coming up, the growing calls to stop the execution of this texas mom on death row. the interrogation video that could exonerate her. also, the new rules on social media to battle disinformation
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