whom the prosecution didn t call. thing is, it s an iron-clad rule. if a grand jury asks to hear from a witness, the prosecution must comply. didn t in this case. it wasn t a minor witness, either, said edmunds, but someone in a position to know a great deal about what really happened to shirlene. the wakisakas had an upstairs room that they rented out to a guy, and he had been there and seen a lot of what went on that morning. though the grand jury didn t hear from the roommate, detective nick cambra did. cambra asked him, what did shirlene say to ken on the day she died? the defense provided us an excerpt of detective cambra s interview with the witness. she was asking ken to come here, you know, be by my side. she did say she wanted to die in peace. testimony that seemed very much in ken s favor, testimony the grand jury that indicted him never heard. defense
killing his wife shirlene, was out on bail, guilty verdict overturned thanks to an error discovered by ken s new defense attorney, john edmunds. but edmunds wasn t finished digging, and pretty soon he found another error, a big one, that occurred even before the trial. there was a witness that the grand jury asked to be called, whom the prosecution didn t call. thing is, it s an iron-clad rule. if a grand jury asks to hear from a witness, the prosecution must comply. didn t in this case. it wasn t a minor witness, either, said edmunds, but someone in a position to know a great deal about what really happened to shirlene. the wakisakas had an upstairs room that they rented out to a guy, and he had been there and seen a lot of what went on that morning. though the grand jury didn t