fahys, but his next stop would be a even tougher audience. , the philadelphia district attorney s office. coming up. frankly it shocked me and it shocked some other people as to some of the evidence that was in that file, that was not turned over. a new legal battle begins, walter ogrod is about to fight for justice. did you kill barbara jean horn? when dateline continues. i don t. new cascade platinum plus has me doing dishes. differently. scrub? soak? nope. i just scrape, load and i m done. only platinum plus is bigger. with double the dawn grease fighting power and double the scrubbing power. for a no rewash clean. and a cabinet ready shine. rewash? not in my house. upgrade to new cascade platinum plus. dare to dish differently. years ago, we used to just fall asleep with a full face of makeup. don t regret, just reverse. no7 s new future renew with a world-first peptide technology no other skincare product has.
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agree with that verdict. the judge, immediately declared a mistrial. walter ogrod was not guilty. john fahy lunged at ogrod setting up for a wild confrontation. john lunged himself out of his seat. over the barrier. nearly got his hands around walter s throat. next thing i know, i was being handcuffed. other officers, hands on their guns. john was never charged. and oh god was immediately sent back to jail. to avoid another trial. it took three years, in 1990 ogrod stood trial for a second time. the first trial ended in a hung jury. this time a different prosecutor named julie was in charge and two weeks before trial she dropped a bombshell it comes to the
only one to allege that detective perfect did not always played by the book. the first time that i heard about walter ogrod case was the time i was also working on a wrongful conviction case from the philadelphia police department. i thought what mr. we ogrod deciding happen him is exactly what happened my client. the year before ogrod s arrest, green s client also signed a confession to murder, and also insisted it was coerced. and just like we ogrod, the person who kept transcribe that confession was detective marty devlin. he said that mr. wright s confession was a straight-up transcription of what mr. wright said, just as it was being taper courted. dna proved wright was innocent, and in 2016 he was exonerated. he filed a civil lawsuit which compelled devlin to sit for a videotaped deposition. at that deposition, we put
that journalist tom lowenstein was writing a book about the death penalty. so ogrod sent tom a letter, imploring him to investigate his case. at first, tom had no interest in helping the convicted murder of a four-year-old. i was just like, i can t do this. the idea of me being in touch with someone that did that could offer them any kind of hope or happiness in their life was repulsive. but it was not in tom s dna to turn away. tom s father, was a united states congressman and a leader in the fight for civil rights. we showed in 1968 not that we could not change america s elections, but that we could change america through elections. he was a tireless campaigner all through tom s childhood, but on march 14th, 1980, his