cnn has reached out multiple times to get a comment from the d.a.'s office jefferson county district attorney's office but so far, no response. my question to you being apparently all that had to be done to set ray free was test the gun. and this would have been over. it still took this ballistic test took 12 years to free this man you are sitting next to. tell me why. >> you know this case is a really powerful demonstration of the problem which is that we have a system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. it is shameful. i have never had a case where the evidence of innocence is so clear and so immediate and so accessible and not been able to get the state to do the simple thing they have to do to access that evidence. we begged them for years to just simply do the test and they would rather risk executing an innocent person than risk the perception that somehow they're not tough on crime or that they're not -- they're being too