he would cross examen hendon. he was over his head and needed help in a case of this magnitude. and kris has suffered the consequences as a result of his lawyers errors. but hendon needed to admit under oath that he made mistakes and when ben asked him why he didn t present kris alibis, he told the court, it appeared to me that these were alibi witnesses who had been sought out. it seemed all too convenient. in other words, hendon didn t believe any of kris alibis. how is one lawyer going to be the judge of a witness that could be the key to a not guilty verdict? that s not a decision for a lawyer to make not with the stakes this high. hendon said he thought he had a strategic reason for not putting on the alibi, he thought it was too good.
they put in additional background investigators, and some of these people were tied into the drug dealers. the latest investigations go beyond the cops, the charges are first degree murder. we can just say we re trying to clean our own house. everybody you thought you could trust you couldn t trust anymore in miami. as it turned out, one police officer jailed for corruption would hear about kris case and tell clive he knew what happened because he was there. i started courting a witness, that is probably the word for it, a witness who was in the place who could tell the truth. and this officer had told me that the police back in the 80s had a deal with the drug dealers where they would protect the murderers who were going around killing people in these drug cases. they would frame someone else with the crime if anyone got on to them. this officer told me yeah, yeah, kris was framed. it was my former partner who did
tune for kris lawyer to call for a mistrial. with the new trial, hendon would know the prosecution s arguments ahead of time. without a new trial, the judge replacing mousey could face deciding a death sentence without hearing all the evidence. i wanted a new trial. but hendon s advice was not to ask for a mistrial. he said they would just go on with the trial because he felt they made headway and they had a good jury. why would they do this? probably the main motivation was he was on a set fee. and you re going to have to start over and that cuts into your fee. hendon claimed he had worked hard on behalf of his client, the jury would go on to hear six days of testimony, all directed against kris. neville butler testified about the graphic details of the murders he said he had watched kris commit.
he swore to me he had been with kris, gone to lunch, stayed by kris. the manager at the restaurant kris frequented also clearly remembered seeing kris at lunch. i know i saw kris the day of the murders because there was a person who was sick and i needed to come in and fill in for that person. it doesn t seem like there is any way possible that he could have killed people at 12:00 and then been in for lunch sometime between 12 and 2:00. five other witnesses would come forward placing kris with them on the day of the murders. i have no doubt that i saw him that day. so that was 12, 12:30, within that time. yet neville butler told the pd homicide detective a convincing account of seeing maharaj commit the murders in cold blood. someone had to be lying. butler was a home run for police, not only could he
on me that kris was innocent. drum is very, very loyal to kris. he carried on after the case was over even though he wasn t being paid or anything. ron and clive noticed discrepancies in the prosecutor s story of the murders and set out to look for answers. i demanded to see the files of the prosecutor and the police. i started going through and am sitting there with extraordinarily bad coffee in the police headquarters going through this carefully tabbed file. i discovered that neville butler, the star witness, fail his polygraph test. i discovered notes this showed that the police knew this kris had lost his gun before the murder ever tock place. this case is more evidence that was covered up than any other case i ve ever seen in decades. [vet] two yearly physicals down.