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CNN Forensic Files July 5, 2014 07:57:00

gorton denied he was ever inside margarette eby s home. when he did, investigators confronted him with fingerprint evidence. do you know where that fingerprint came from? no. it came from the bathroom in the upstairs bedroom where margarette eby was found. mm-hmm. the house that you said you had never been in. so, right now, jeff, there s no question that you re the person that s responsible. the question that needs to be answered is why and what can we do to help you? well, there is no why because i didn t do it. i just need to see an attorney now, because i know i didn t do anything, and i need to when gorton asked for a lawyer, the interview stopped, but not before they collected his dna sample. dna testing confirmed what the first test suggested, that jeffrey gorton had sexually assaulted and presumably killed nancy ludwig and margarette eby. prosecutors think gorton entered margarette eby s home through an unlocked door and waited for her. when she returned from ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140704:00:01:00

Identifications. and it just doesn t work that way at all. in real-life cases, what happens when forensics fail? everything really comes down to the person making that judgment and how often do they get it wrong? and it s turned out that they get it wrong a lot of times. ernest willis is sent to death row for murder by arson. is faulty fire science to blame? everything that they said was obsolete. a fire don t happen the way they say it happened. in another case, riky jackson is convicted of a friend s brutal murder based on fingerprint evidence. but are the prints really his? they have used prints, judge jury and execution. that makes it a very dangerous science, doesn t it? ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140704:00:27:00

He works as a hairdresser and lives near his parents in a quiet superb outside philadelphia. it s either going to tear you apart or bring you together. and if you re a strong family unit like we are, you know, like i said he only asked me once did i do it, and there was never a question. i said no. there was no conversation. it was on. and hasn t been a question since. the riky jackson case and others like it have caused legal experts like robert epstein to question just how reliable is fingerprint evidence. the riky jackson case was a case that really brought these problems to the light because we had a very, very clear case of misidentification where a poor fellow was incarcerated for two years on the basis of a misidentification for a horrible crime. if the system is going to work, it s got to catch the misidentifications before anybody gets arrested. they have used prints, judge ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140704:00:26:00

i do feel a lot of disappointment for for the criminal justice system. in march of 2000, the delaware county district attorney s office formally withdraws the case against riky jackson, citing insufficient evidence. this means jackson will not be retried for the crime. we decided here that the fingerprint evidence was sufficiently in question that we no longer could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant is the one who committed this crime. the upper darby police department and paparo still stand by the accuracy of his identification. to date, the alvin davis murder remains unsolved. the real story is alvin davis and his family. they have no closure. it s still an open case for them. it s still an open case for me. never lose sight of the job. i don t let it affect me or make me second-guess things now. today, riky jackson s life is slowly getting back to normal. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140704:00:09:00

He did not commit this crime. so i ll just have to prove you wrong. unable to pay the $500,000 bail, jackson is sent to delaware county jail to await trial. i ll never forget the feeling of when they put me in a cell on the second tier and closed the gate, and i ve never been claustrophobic in my life. that s when it hit me. as his son sits in jail, richard jackson hires veteran defense attorney michael malloy. malloy is convinced the team has a tough battle ahead if police have something as solid as fingerprint evidence. i probably told them, i can fight like hell for you but i ve got to tell you if they re your son s fingerprints in blood on the fan on top of the body, you ve got a problem on your hands. coming up, can the jackson team take on a time-tested forensic science and win? there s no doubt about what we needed to do. ....

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