stay of the execution and the chance to file further appeals in kevin s case. san quentin guards escorted kevin to a new cell, adjacent to the death chamber. cooper was about to become a dead man walking. (vo) maybe it was here, when you hit 300,000 miles. or here, when you walked away without a scratch. maybe it was all the times it got you safely out there. or all the times it got you out of there. maybe it was the day your baby came home. or maybe the day you realized your baby was not a baby anymore.
blue shirt and bloody coveralls were all brady violations and we put on evidence as to all of those. judge huff rejected it. kevin cooper was running out of time so his defense team reached out to a new potential advocate, san francisco chronicle columnist debra saunders. as a supporter of the death penalty, i wouldn t want to see an innocent man executed, would i? so if there s a hint that somebody who is not guilty might be executed, i want to know about it, i want to write about it. my editorial board wrote an editorial saying, gee, maybe kevin cooper is an innocent man. the defense attorneys laid out this case about how this man had been unjustly convicted. cooper s defense told saunders that for years they had been unsuccessful in petitioning the courts for newly available
the defense attorneys shock, testing came back saying there was kevin cooper s dna on a-41. but for hile, the dna results raised a red flag. back in 1983, the lab technician daniel had testified that he had consumed a-41 during his testing. now he was asked to make sure that a-41 still existed. we have a photograph of the envelope that shows the date he took it out and when he revealed it. so we know that he had a-41 on his person for 24 hours before he returned it. he also had nearby in the lab the vial of kevin cooper s blood that was taken from him when he was arrested. contrary to original testimony, the state now reported there was enough of a-41 for additional dna testing. results from the tan t-shirt
the crimes that california is about to kill him for. if he is innocent, the real killers have escaped. the killers may kill again. they may have already done so. despite conflicting opinions about cooper s guilt, if and when california resumes executions, kevin cooper will be returned to the death chamber. if he were to be executed, i would still want to prove his innocence because our system often convicts innocent people and when you have the ultimate punishment, you ve got to get another system. we save the death penalty for the worst of the worst. these people on death wrote row, some of them i call monsters. everybody talks about the death row inmates and their rights but people forget about the victims and their families and their
beach, the first time it was suspected there were no cigarette butts. the second time they suddenly found two cigarette butts. clearly, they had been taken from the hideout house. and then there was the blood evidence connecting cooper to the murders. this small speck labeled a-41. a-41 was examined by sheriff department criminalist daniel gregonas. gregonas was a rookie at the time. the standard procedure is that you test something, and you try to see whether it s that person or not. but gregonas waited until he had kevin cooper s blood type. he originally found a-41 did not match kevin cooper but then he changed notes to show that it did. so, in fact, the testing actually showed that the blood drop was not from somebody with kevin s blood type. other evidence, prosecutors