all these years that my case was in the appeals courts, i never got a fair hearing, i would always get denied for one reason or the next. so i felt very bad. very discouraged until dna testing came along, and i had a shot. the state would perform dna tests on blood sample a-41, taken from the ryens hallway and blood on the tan shirt thought to have been thrown from their stolen station wagon. the results would determine whether kevin cooper lived or died.
and the prosecution s claim that cooper had killed the ryens in order to steal their station wagon. problem with this theory is that if somebody such as kevin cooper had wanted to make an escape, they missed the fact that there was cash, credit cards and other valuables left at the scene of the crimes. none of that was taken. if mr. cooper has walked away from the prison, obviously with no money, all of it was right there for him to take, and it was not touched. hile also disputed the prosecution s theory that the killer worked alone. the sheer number of wounds suffered by the victims, 140 in all, and the fact that doug ryen was an ex-marine with loaded guns in the bedroom suggested to hile that there had been more than one killer. for a time, san bernardino police apparently agreed with that conclusion.
from the hideout house. and there was the blood evidence connecting cooper to the murders. this small speck labeled a-41. a-41 was examined by sheriff s department criminalist daniel gregonis. gregonis was a rookie at the time. proper procedure is to do blind testing. you test something and you don t know what the other person s blood is, and you re trying to see whether it s that person or not. but gregonis waited until he had kevin cooper s blood type. gregonis 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 claim linked cooper to the murders was a bloody footprint on the ryens bed sheet, supposedly from a prison-issued sneaker.
house. it wasn t me. it must have been someone else who did this. kottmeier countered the testimony by showing the jury the hatchet sheathe found in the lease house and the bloody footprint found in the ryens bedroom. in the folds of that sheet was a half-bloody footprint. now those soles were unique. and we were able to determine that the shoe print was made by a prison-issue pro ked tennis shoe. blood found at the murder scene also led back to cooper. a-41 was a single drop blood in the hallway and cooper matched it. finally, kottmeier played the emotional videotaped testimony of the lone survivor, josh ryen. have you tried to forget what eah.ed that night? what have you tried to do to forget it?
that the ambassador, our ambassador to the u.n. would threaten other countries over this vote. this vote is complicated and donald trump trying to insinuate himself between the arab street and the german street, the french street. most of the streets in the world and their leaders that just can t abide by what the trump administration did. yeah. and already the state department pulled back on the idea that there s any threats in terms of the money that we give to these very important countries in the sphere of influence. you had john brennan issue a pretty strong condemnation of nikki haley s behavior saying the threat to retaliate against nations that exercise sovereign right and u.n. to oppose u.s. position on jerusalem is beyond outrageous. shows real donald trump expects blind loyalty and sub serve yens of everybody. yeah. it s pretty harsh but it s also in keeping donald trump s words with the same things he said on