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Had serious doubts about how walter had landed on death row. the key point about the first trial is that walter testified, and it was from hearing walter talk, hearing how he expressed himself that the jury came to the belief that he couldn t have given the confession. and then you say, okay, well, what got him convicted at the second trial? this is the second time a jury has been charged with deciding the fate of walter ogrod. the first trial ended in a hung jury. in the 1990s, the philadelphia d.a. s office sought the death penalty more than any other in the country. walter s second trial was assigned to prosecutor judy rubino. judy rubino was a legendary tough prosecutor in philadelphia. someone had told me jokingly that she had her own wing on death row. her case relied on jailhouse informant jay wochansky who said walter had confessed to him in prison. the motive for the crime was ....
See him killed. when we took this case on 11 1/2 years ago, i don t think we expected to be sitting here today, waiting for a decision on just a discovery motion seeking access to testing materials that should be tested. rollins petition includes a 2005 affidavit from jailhouse snitch john hall, admitting he gave walter s story to jay wolchansky. the d.a. s office has argued that regardless of hall s statement, they still have walter s original confession. judy rubino told the jury at the second trial that the confession was a lie. so how they can now come back, trial a is confession. trial b is confession was a lie, snitch is true. appeals are snitch doesn t matter. confession was true. and somehow in all of that, they re saying walter said all of this. well, walter didn t say any of it. ....