over with a feather. just hit with a wave of emotion. god, i don t believe it. i was so happy. i mean, i was walking on cloud nine. defense lawyer billy richardson was driving through mississippi when he heard the news. i said stop the car. it was just like somebody had taken a 2x4 and hit me upside of the head with it. i was convinced that if anybody could ever run an actual dna on that sample, they would find someone other than tim hennis, and i believed it with every fiber of my being. but the shocking dna results led to a pragmatic question. what do you do now? timothy hennis had been ajude kated not guilty, and therefore south carolina was not going to try him again. we fought a revolutionary war because somebody could be tried over and over again for the same offense. and the founders put it in the
he just grimaced and with tears in his eyes, he just said, them. on april 15th, 2010, the jury sentenced timothy hennis to death. but i feel vindicated for some of the things that you heard when you got a not guilty and the smiles and the smirks that you see from certain people, you damn right, i do, yes, sir, i do, i feel vindicated. tim hennis now sits in solitary confinement in fort leavenworth, kansas. his appeals in the military and federal courts could take decades. i still believe that tim is innocent, and i m not his lawyer right now, so it would be improper for me to sit down and say, did you or didn t you? i am dying to have that conversation with him, but how can you put a man to death based solely on one piece of evidence? our country was formed on the premise that one person wrongfully convicted is a grave injustice.
not tim s. and nothing else came back to timothy hennis. underneath the fingernails is and the fingernail scrapings weren t enough for a full dna profile, so the defense asked to test all of the crime scene evidence that the might point to a different perpetrator including a blood-soaked towel. now, who had sex with her did not have necessarily kill her, but whoever cleaned up the blood might have had something to do with it, but let s find out what happened. in the military if you need a judge done, you have to ask the
we reached out and touched him. at 1:00 a.m., the sheriff s arrested timothy hennis and charged him with rape and capital murder. he was charged with capital murder and he will face the death penalty. the arrest sent shock waves through the nation. fort bragg is the most patriotic community, and when somebody is convicted of murder, that just stirs the community. any idea who this would be? well, she was getting some strange phone calls. don t you give any ideas who it might be. i ain t giving no ideas. and to defend their son they hired two young lawyers. i thought that tim was guilty as all get-out, so i didn t particularly care for tim. but the law school i went to stressed the importance of taking unpopular cases.
luminol on it, and it e glowed right there. but hennis on the other hand had no sign of blood. so richardson had turned the state s evidence against them. and then lucille cook who swore she saw hennis at the atm. two days after the murder. lucille cook had made dozens and dozens of transactions around the time of the murder, and asked her if she could remember those, and of course, she could not. there was a gap of time between her transaction and the transaction used allegedly by tim hennis. it was 3 1/2 minutes.