the next thing we know, there is a big article in the miami herald. and i was angry. i was very angry. i was angry at him, i was angry at the reporter. this is a man s life and you re printing this stuff and it s dangerous. now everybody reads the miami 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 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.
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the tire tracks. and we might never have focused in on him as a suspect. after beth wells finished making her case for a new trial, judge lockett denied the appeal. in 2003 marshall frank was ready to go to bat for james duck set duckett and called beth wells to offer his help. beth was a little dubious about me. she was dubious about anybody who would be on the law enforcement side. didn t know for sure that i was really sincere in my probe. marshall frank contacts jim and i m initially like, whoa, whoa, whoa, i know nothing about this guy. i have no reason to trust him. from jim s point of view, maybe this will be the person who is able to get somebody to listen. with the case at a dead end and duckett headed toward execution, marshall frank had an
nope, ain t nothing there. they said we can t do it because there is no root. the state of dna testing at the time was we can t do anything with it. we went to the fbi. because they re the mac daddy of labs. and we asked them to take a look at it. mike malone is the fbi expert. he tested it and he comes up and says oh, yeah, this is mike jim duckett s hair. microscopically significant. so you have the preeminent investigative agency saying it is jim duckett s hair. that s powerful evidence to a jury. there is no question they re going on believe that. with advance dna science not yet available at the time of the trial the prosecution relied on inexact hair testing methods yielding results that would not be accepted in a court of law today. i consulted a couple of forensic experts i knew and there was no way anybody, fbi, no matter where they re from could say that pubic hair belonged to james duckett. there s no way they could say