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Being investigated as a hate crime. in fact one of the most recent ones was a predominantly white church in tallahassee. that was a lightning strike. there are dozens of churches being struck. anybody committing arson should be prosecuted and punished for it. anybody with racist motivation should be investigated for using that motivation to go out and burn down churches. but for media to have all of this the ones that you were mentioning all of these black churches getting burned down is hyperbole. since june 20th new hope lutheran church in florida. that was arson. right. not a black church. one in new york. right. caused by lightning. so it wasn t arson. there s another one accidental these are all nonblack churches one in ohio one in california one in new york. nonblack churches that have burned that they ignore in coming up with their stats. ....
Being investigated as a hate crime. in fact one of the most recent ones was a predominantly white church in tallahassee. that was a lightning strike. there are dozens of churches being struck. anybody committing arson should be prosecuted and punished for it. anybody with racist motivation should be investigated for using that motivation to go out and burn down churches. but for media to have all of this the ones that you were mentioning all of these black churches getting burned down is hyperbole. since june 20th new hope lutheran church in florida. that was arson. right. not a black church. one in new york. right. caused by lightning. so it wasn t arson. there s another one accidental these are all nonblack churches one in ohio one in california one in new york. nonblack churches that have burned that they ignore in coming up with their stats. ....
Was guilty? after i had seen all of the evidence, it was overwhelming that he was guilty. reporter: david martin was one of willingham s court appointed defense lawyers at his 1992 trial. so keeping them honest, what exactly did martin do to defend willingham? the prosecution had two arson investigators on the stand to prove that willingham was guilty. did you have an expert testify? we couldn t find one who said that it wasn t arson. reporter: couldn t find one. but since the trial, nine. that s right. nine different arson experts have concluded the fire was not arson. what evidence did you present to help defend willingham? what evidence would you have us present? the witnesses withere dead, the kids. every time you cross examine a witness you re presenting evidence. reporter: martin says he did his best. but admits he believed the prosecutor s experts who said they found patterns on the floor ....
I m not an arsonist. she s like i m not an arsonist, i m a firefighter. reporter: barton began to buckle under pressure. what she was about to reveal to agent jones during a taped reenactment. terry, you ve given previous statements to the agents reporter: would shock her small mountain community. were those statements correct statements as far as your account of what happened? no, they weren t. reporter: she said it wasn t arson but an accident. she was in the middle of a divorce and said heartache drove her to light the fire. i was the one that started the fire, and it was a fear, and the fear kept getting bigger when the fire kept getting bigger. she then admits that in fact she was responsible for the hayman fire by taking a love letter from her about to be ex-husband in a state of emotional trama, carrying it out to the campfire ring and burning it. the matches were in my hand with the letter. i put the letter down and i lit ....
Sense so jones confronted her. we don t know what happened, terry, but there is no way anyone else started this fire. you started the fire. i m not an arsonist. she s like i m not an arsonist, i m a firefighter. reporter: barton began to buckle under pressure. what she was about to reveal to agent jones during a taped reenactment. terry, you ve given previous statements reporter: would shock her small mountain community. were those statements correct statements as far as your count at what happened. no, they weren t. reporter: she said it wasn t arson but an accident. she was in the middle of a divorce and said heartache drove her to light the fire. i was the one that started the fire, and it was a fear, and the fear kept getting bigger when the fire kept getting bigger. she then admits that in fact she was responsible for the hayman fire by taking a love letter from her about to be ex-husband in a state of ....