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since the end of the apartheid era the see the African National congress the. Country since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but its fortunes. Since then Nelson Mandela won nearly sixty three percent of the vote in that fast free election in one thousand to four support pete. And becky just. As you can see the table behind me now its steadily. The question whether. The downward trend. With one who takes stock of the last twenty five years. Now since. Agency election. Symbolic of the Party Support base in this region. Wizzy causa is an a. N. C. Supporter were outside the clinic its a week away she voted in the One Thousand Nine Hundred Four election she still has vivid memories of
any coffee shop or restaurant and they re solving it for me. and those things can get twisted pretty fast. they get twisted really fast. in this case, it was constantly, well, you know pete moore did it. you know pete moore did it. and my response was, well, that s not the direction i m going in. keith morrison (voiceover): not the direction at all. in fact, da pointer was about to put pete on the prosecution team as a key witness against paul, making pete work with the same people who, at one point, were hoping to put him in prison. and that uncomfortable fact was irresistible catnip for paul s defense attorney. pete s first day on the stand. she said, you re a murder, aren t you, mr. moore? lester holt: coming up, the defense says it was pete who had the motive to kill one man and implicate another, a master plan that would give him everything he wanted. linda parisi: peter is the one who has indicated,
of the story paul was the stooge and peter the mastermind. linda parisi: peter is the one who has indicated, i ve been in landscaping for 20 years. i m tired. i m broken down. i want to be in the farming operation. what better way to take out roberto and to take out paul? keith morrison (voiceover): to counter that argument, the prosecution was forced to call pete as a witness, knowing that would make him a punching bag for parisi. oh, she told me. she said, you re a murderer, aren t you, mr. moore? i said, those are your words, not mine. she thought that she could, by grilling peter, uncover the evil, the monster. keith morrison (voiceover): assistant attorney general david druliner was pete s wrangler during the trial. i was completely satisfied that there was no monster to uncover. and so i, for the most part, let her go at him.
keith morrison (voiceover): the jury retired to think about it, and they were not fooled. after just five hours of deliberation, they walked back into the court room and declared paul moore guilty of murder. the judge sentenced him to life in prison. i remember driving away from the courtroom, and my wife and i were together. we just started crying because we knew it was over. i did a job. i went in there. i did my job. i told everything i knew. and it and it wasn t easy because i basically put away somebody who i loved. keith morrison (voiceover): but pete is not so blind that he doesn t see how he was used by his boyhood playmate, the kid with whom he once spent those long, lazy days
and i ve asked people in the family, where does all the anger come from? because it s like the whole family s mad. mary: i wish that there weren t so much hate and anger in our family. and that everybody treated each other like a family s supposed to treat each other. keith morrison (voiceover): throughout the trial, paul s father, roger, believed his son to be innocent. and after the verdict, declined to talk to us, his own son convicted of murdering the man he treated like his son. other members of the moore family declined our request for interviews after the verdict, too, even most of those who support pete. they said they didn t want to stir things up. i know some of the people that you talked to, and i know they backed out. and they called and told me. i respect them for calling and telling me, but it s all about what possibly might come somebody s way, you know. would it be fair for us to say that some members of the family are afraid to talk to us because they re afraid they