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his execution could come at any time. our legal system is just designed to make it very, very difficult to prove that someone didn t commit a crime after they ve already been convicted. you re talking the most uphill of uphill battles. father neil was desperate to help prove joe s innocence. but in order to get a new trial they had to find new evidence. so neil took a new approach. i thought, one of the things i need to do to get help is media attention. one of the first media outlets that i got was the cleveland scene magazine. neil kookoothe came into the office a couple weeks after i joined the staff. neil didn t oversell what he believed to be joe s case of actual innocence. he came to me with pieces of the case that he felt were questionable. kuz interviewed dozens of
well, he never called me that weekend. and i found out on monday that he had been killed on friday. it was the coldest day of my life. as we covered all of this ground, he shared something with me that i had heard no one else mention. he said that tony klann had told him, richard, that he had witnessed a rape in the apartment building where he lived. i understood that there was going to be a trial and tony was going to be a witness for that. after we hung up, i felt like i needed to share that information with neil. martin told me that. and i went down to the justice center. i pulled anthony klann s file. and i discovered that he indeed
after visiting the crime scene, father neil had other suspicions about espinoza s testimony. joe supposedly grabs the knife and goes after anthony in the creek bed, stabbing him. and yet there were no tire tracks or anything on the side of the creek. and so i thought, whoa, something s not right here. neil believed espinoza had to be lying. but a witness who was lying did not necessarily mean joe was telling the truth. neil needed to know more about joe s background. joe s father died when he was 17 years old. joe is the only boy in the family. so his father s death was very traumatic for him. i had to become the breadwinner. and as soon as i graduated i went right into the military. i was what they call a shade tree mechanic.