failed to disclose evidence favorable to ogrod including a personality profile from their own experts, concluding that we ogrod is a person easily manipulated. frankly, it shocked me and i think it shocked some other people as to some of the evidence that was in that file that was not turned over. when i spoke with cummings in the spring of 2020, she told me that it was time to act. so what are you asking the court to do? we are asking the court to vacate the conviction, because we believe the conviction as it stands is a gros miscarriage of justice. it is an extraordinary admission, rarely heard from a prosecutor. in a case where you say, we got it wrong, and not only did we get it wrong, but we think this person is innocent, that ought to concern, scare anybody. but would it be enough to free walter ogrod?
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
coerced. and just like we ogrod, the person who kept transcribe that confession was detective marty devlin. he said that mr. rights 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 his story to the test. are you ready, mr. devlin? as another detective read rights confession, devlin was asked to transcribe, it just like he said happened in the can interrogation room. way too fast, way too fast. he could barely keep up. he could not keep pace at all. at a certain point, he gave up. i would just march into her house, it is way too fast, it
attorney said that he is innocent and that devlin has spent 50 years fighting for justice for victims of crime. looking through a keyhole of a might bigger picture, this is a slice of a much bigger problem. district attorney larry krasner says that the wright case is hardly unique and a culture of corruption has existed for decades. between 2019 and 2022, his conviction unit has helped free 28 people, all victims of official misconduct. his office has investigated dozens of other cases. you are looking at the actions of the prosecutor, or the police? both. the biggest part of this problem is not just innocent mistakes, the biggest part of this problem is the abuse of power. in february 2020, krasner s office, together with defense attorneys, did something that is rarely seen. they filed a joint motion asking the court to vacate ogrod conviction. it was unbelievable, they
inmate, like he got the story from walter, but walter and jay never communicated together. both snitches one to prosecutors claiming they each heard the same story from ogrod, but only could testify. prosecutors told him that they had been using him too much. now,. all these years later, tom was convinced that ogrod had been railroaded by both police and prosecutors, which made what he had to do next especially difficult. you took your suspicions to barbara jean horn family. from the beginning, that was always looming for me. if i ve shown up at my door ask my dad, i will slam the door and told him to get lost. but sharon in john agreed to hear him out. john and i met with him, and he told us a lot of the different things that we re not right, he felt. he claims that walter s