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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. now i don t know what the outcome of this is to be, but this is a good case.
he would get the death penalty times three. tim hennis could hear his father sobbing in the courtroom. he had never heard that before. when that jury said that he is guilty, you still had faith that he was telling the truth? always. never once. not a doubt in your mind? no, never. that time i felt like i did, because i felt that we got our man, and this is the one case that truly did deserve the death penalty. tim hennis had spent his entire career serving the military, and now he was serving time on death row. but not long after his arrival hennis received a mysterious letter. it said, mr. hennis, i did the
he just felt like, you can t touch me. well, yes, we will touch you. we reached out and touched him. at 1:00 a.m., the sheriffs 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
army to do it for you. but the judge denied the request to test other items. i cannot imagine a judge in a civilian court not allowing that. you have the evidence, why not test it. without dna results pointing to a different suspect, hennis lawyers decided to the offer an alternate explanation to the sperm. in the end they threw out the theory that tim hennis had consensual sex with mrs. eastburn. and when he said that, you could feel the love leaving the room. everybody went, i don t believe he is saying that. there are certain things that you can do in front of the jury, and certain things that you can t. it is not how i would have done it. the 14-person court-martial jury declared unanimously that timothy hennis was guilty of murdering katy eastburn and her children. and the next task would be to