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order food, the jury reached a decision. boy, i was so scared, i said what? they did what, how? that fast? the jury took only 35 minutes to agree on a verdict. the jury files back in, whenever a jury comes back, you re looking at every juror trying to look for some hint. and it seems like an eternity, and the heart, meanwhile, now is racing faster and faster and breathing is becoming increasingly challenging. this was the most agonizing moment either of us have had in our careers. and in our personal careers. then the judge asked that the verdict be read aloud. evacuations are underway as a meteor heads toward the metro area. go, go, go, go, go! we can fit more! there s still more room! we gotta go. juicer!
john thompson s testimony was that he did have the gun, but he had bought that from kevin freeman. kevin freeman sold the murder weapon to an unwitting john thompson. john was involved in buying and selling some stolen property. it s not something he s proud of. i was a dope dealer. he was a burglar, you was a robber, you wanted dope, you need to bring me some type of collateral. he was bringing me tv, guns, jewelry. that was a part of a drug trade, being a fence. i m sorry, that s how i came about being in possession of the murder weapon. the defense rested and the case was handed over to the jury. the jury gets up and leaves with your fate in their hands and you try to smile while they re leaving. all them passing right by you. all of them looking you in your face like for the last time. the pressure was enormous, it was almost like you couldn t breathe. there s a lot of nervous energy and small talk that goes on. before we can sit down and
that. tole tell you what, if you can give us all this information, we ll be straight with you. i just need help, you know, period. our family s large, you know, and we been doin bad because my daddy s been gone. you give a tip. if it leads to a conviction, you get a chunk of money, and it s very enticing. perkins received over $10,000 in reward money immediately after the trial, and told by the police not to mention the payment of the reward to anybody. perkins saying he received $10,000 to receive this. the jury would have thought different about that. they wouldn t even count his testimony. gordon and michael filed their appeal in june of 1989, after 5 years of waiting, the court finally agreed to hear their case.
never, perhaps, clarified to the extent it should have been clarified. was there training for prosecutors on what that obligation meant? i don t recall there ever being training on that. i don t recall there being training, period. jim williams who prosecuted thompson was asked who decided what evidence would be shared. it was up to the attorney trying the case. we were expected to follow the rules. were there any other guidelines that you can recall as to how you were to make that determination? no. when we asked the prosecutors about their knowledge of the law that requires that favorable evidence be produced they got it all wrong. the district attorney s office had a handbook, it was flat out wrong. their failures of understanding were frankly pretty surprising. i stopped reading law books when i was when i became the d.a. a jury concluded that under harry connick s leadership, the