in the jury room and laughed at her. now it was time for richardson to go after the state s star witness, pat cohen. after some soul searching, sean buckner agreed to testify against his old friend. he testified that pat koem cohen was extremely drunk that night. he had doubts about what he saw. patrick had told sean buckner, i feel like i m sending an innocent man to prison. but richardson knew he had to answer one last question in the back of their mind, the jury is saying the kids saw something. if it wasn t your client, who was it? so richardson called his next witness. the back doors burst open and nempb the courtroom turned and looked around and the prosecutor said who s that? that was as close to a perry mason moment as i have ever had in the lead detective goes we re in trouble. when you re not confident your company s data is secure, the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about.
day. but before the second trial, richardson discovered why the paperwork had gone missing. the reason they couldn t find it is because the prosecutors had it. they didn t make a copy of it and leave it. they just took it. and so this piece of evidence that probably would have exonerated him in 1986 was kept in the prosecutor s custody all of that time. richards had uncovered other information. he was arrested using a stolen bank card. on another occasion he was drinking and disruptive and the state dropped the case. he was known to tell people that state couldn t touch him because he was a prime witness. pat is not a strong willed person. nice guy. don t misunderstand me but head a little trouble but minor things. still richardson wasn t sure he could convince the jury that cohen had lied about seeing
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investigating this case it would have set off bells and wis withals. sure enough it belonged to a fella named sean buckner mr. he was a close friend of pat cohen, the prosecutor s star witness. the letter in his lost wallet called cohen s testimony in to question. that letter talks about pat s doubts. pat cohen had told sean buckner and his pea fiance about his daughters to the point where they wrote a letter about it. buckner was in training with the air force but when he got there, buckner closed the door in his face. he didn t want to get involved. sean buckner had the dilemma whether to betray his friends and free someone who maybe wrongly accused of triple murder. that was a tough one. sean buckner had no reason to help tim hennis. richardson came home empty handed hoping buckner would