sheets. if those old samples can be found and if they haven t been ravaged by time, scientists can perform dna testing. since lowery is out of prison, he can t demand a test. he must ask for permission from the current riley county prosecutor bill kennedy. i remember distinctly we re out on the front steps of the courthouse having a five-minute conversation, and his response to my request was, if you think this guy didn t do it, let s get it tested. i ll help you. in this case, there was a clear, what i felt, yes or no. and it could set the question to rest. it wasn t a legal question. it was a right-or-wrong question, and it seemed to me to be the right thing to do. there s just one little problem. no one knows where the evidence is. the evidence custodian at the time did a search and fairly quickly concluded they didn t
yeah. listening to him tell his story, you know, intuitively, i think, this guy is telling me the truth. and then when you think about the fact that if that evidence is tested and it confirms his guilt, all these doing is blowing his cover. i mean whatever privacy he had will be gone in a very, very public forum, so i knew he was telling the truth. barry clark has never worked a post-conviction dna case, but he s in luck. just a few days after this meeting we just had another case in tennessee. he attends a conference run by innocence project co-founder barry scheck. i went up, met him. he s a great guy. i explained my case to him. he looked at me and goes, oh, that s a false confession case like he s seen dozens of them. i had no idea what a false confession case was. scheck tells clark that of the more than 270 people he s proven innocent, 25% made a false confession to a crime.
i remember you telling me that you d been hiding this thing for years. remember that? yeah. listening to him tell his story, you know, intuitively, i think, this guy is telling me the truth. and then when you think about the fact that if that evidence is tested and it confirms his guilt, all these doing is blowing his cover. i mean whatever privacy he had will be gone in a very, very public forum, so i knew he was telling the truth. barry clark has never worked a post-conviction dna case, but he s in luck. just a few days after this meeting we just had another case in tennessee. he attends a conference run by innocence project co-founder barry scheck. i went up, met him. he s a great guy. i explained my case to him. he looked at me and goes, oh, that s a false confession case like he s seen dozens of them. i had no idea what a false confession case was. scheck tells clark that of
to hide, this lie detector test is going to help you, it s going to clear your name, you ll be home by this afternoon. though he s eager to clear his name, lowery is nervous about the polygraph. he decides to lawyer up. it kind of set back malugani a little bit. he goes you don t need a lawyer right now. all we want to do is ask you questions. you re not under arrest so you don t need a lawyer. though police will later dispute this, lowery says his repeated requests for a lawyer were denied. i don t know. maybe i should have had more backbone and said, you know, i m walking out of here and i m leaving, but i was so naive about my rights. i didn t know my rights. raised in covina, california, in a family with eight children, lowery had a conventional childhood. he played football in high school and graduated before entering the army. he had never been inside an interrogation room. in a case like eddie s where
that s a false confession case like he s seen dozens of them. i had no idea what a false confession case was. scheck tells clark that of the more than 270 people he s proven innocent, 25% made a false confession to a crime. innocent people, you know, can be intimidated. their will can be overborne, and they can be brought to falsely confess to a crime. you know, this has happened to soldiers. it s happened to all kinds of people from ordinary walks of life. from what clark is telling him about eddie lowery s case, scheck thinks he may, in fact, be innocent. the great thing about barry clark, you know, he s a really good lawyer. he s a very earnest, honest, straightforward guy, you know, an all-american guy like eddie in a way. and he says, i think he s