and at 3:30 in the morning, you wonder if that is who patrick cone saw on the road. this is another tall white guy blond walking down the street, and it is effective. it is one of those magical moments in the courtroom, and the walker gave that jury a reason to have reasonable doubt. it gave them a reason to say it was not tim. when the walker took the stand, richardson asked what he wore on the nightly walks down sommer hill road. he wore a beanie hat, and he had a members only jacket. black members only jacket. after the walker s testimony, the defense moved to have the case thrown out. the defense accused the prosecution of outright cheating, because it turned out that the prosecutors knew exactly who john raupaugh was. and then the attorneys told
active duty. as soon as he arrived to fort bragg, he was charged with three counts of murder. tim hennis is the only person who has been tried and re-tried for murder three times. it is well settled law, because nothing that the state does can affect what the military does. they can claim it is a different jurisdiction, but it is the state of north carolina to use the army to get to what they wanted to do, plain and simple. but billy richardson now on the sidelines, the court-martial of timothy hennis commenced on march 17th, 2010. the prosecutor s case hinged on the dna results. the sperm in the vagina is the person who raped and slaughtered her and her children.
works? works. works! works? works. works. defense attorney billy richardson had always wondered, if it wasn t tim hennis who did eyewitness pat cone see at the eastburn home on the night of the murders? billy was going door to door to talk to every neighbor, and he said, talk to that kid who walks the street all of the time. and they didn t know who he was, so billy did a vigil and it
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.