get up and speculate and guess at how old the blood was based on the color from from a fr photograph is unsupported proposition. reporter: and out was evidence that cal threatened michel michelle s life. then the defense attempted to present its evidence about that alternate suspect, stacy stewart. and the judge shut them down. the jury would only be allowed to hear stewart s name, that michelle knew him, that kevin tubbs had i.d. d him, and that he owned a black truck at the time. no more. why? because stacy stewart wasn t on trial. cal harris was. the wrong man, his attorneys insisted. cal did not deserve to be on trial. and, frankly, michelle and her family deserved better. we all want to know what
the blood was spilled around the time michele disappeared. to have forensic scientists get up and speculate and guess at how old blood was based on the color from a photograph is an outrageously unsupported proposition. also out, hearsay testimony from prosecution witnesses who said michele told them that cal threatened her life. we don t think they belong in the evidence. it s part of the reason the case was unfair the first time, the second time. then the defense attempted to present its evidence about that alternate suspect, stacy stewart. and the judge shut them down. the jury would only be allowed to hear stewart s name, that michele knew him, that kevin tubbs had idded him and he owned a black truck at the time. no more. why? because stacy stewart wasn t on trial. cal harris was. the wrong man, his attorneys insisted. cal did not deserve to be on trial and frankly michele and
d.a. jerry keane s face. i came into the courtroom thinking the defendant was going to be sentenced and it ended up more of my being on trial. who on earth had the power to make this happen? he did, kevin tubbs. i know she was there, okay? i know she was. kevin tubbs, a plain spoken rough hewn farm worker back then, was hauling hay. why was he so important? because after six years during which tubbs swore he barely registered the fuss over the harris case, he picked up the paper and saw the story of cal s conviction and i seen that and, you know, i started like recalling, you know thinking like oh, my god. just like that, he suddenly knew, he said, that what he saw the morning after 9/11, the morning michele harris
i mean, he held it together well but what was it like driving home? quiet. watching his kids walk away was unimaginably hard. three years rolled by. but then came a day in october, 2012, when cal harris found himself crying for joy in the prison yard. it s rare, though. i mean, this is really rare for that to happen. yeah. a new chance at freedom, new urgency from the kids. this is our time to do our part. and a whole new theory of the case. it s all coming together. it s time to look elsewhere. trial number three, when dateline continues. ontinues
to be thrown out. the wasn t allowed to suggest that the blood was spilled around the time michelle disappeared. to have forensic scientists get up and speculate and guess at how old blood was based on the color from a photograph is an outrageously unsupported proposition. also out? hearsay testimony from prosecution witnesses who said michele told them that cal threatened her life. we don t think they belong in evidence. it s part of the reason the case was unfair the first time, the second time. but then? the defense attempted to present its evidence about that alternate suspect, stacy stewart. and the judge shut them down. the jury would only be allowed to hear stewart s name, that michele knew him, that kevin tubbs i.d. d him and that he owned a black truck at the time. no more. why? because stacy stewart wasn t on trial and cal harris was. wrong man, his attorneys insisted. cal did not deserve to be on trial. and frankly, michele and her