reporter: but in the early morning hours he s a trusted confident and counselor who to whoever passes by. renee rutstein is a regular. he knows everything about me. reporter: did you feel weird sharing all your secrets to a guy on a bench? no, because he ll never judge me and he always shoots me straight. he s not judgmental and he takes you for who you are. reporter: bernadette dorset- mills says she has never met a wiser man. he s like the guiding force. reporter: at the same time, i don t hear you talking a lot. no. reporter: i just see a lot of nodding, like you re doing now. mm-hmm, mm-hmm.m, mm-hmm. reporter: a lot of mm-hmms. listening is the number one skill all mankind needs to know how to do very well. reporter: a skill he has clearly mastered. mm-hmm, mm-hmm. reporter: when al started coming here seven years ago, the therapy was for him. he needed a quiet place to clear his head, and the last thing he wanted was to hear other people s proble
was young and full of myself. i was not interested or as interested in justice as i was in winning. doug burns is a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor joining me to talk about this important case. let s start here. i m glad this prosecutor came clean. meanwhile though, mr. glen ford effectively lost his life and i would gam to believe say that the prosecutor came clean to clear his conscious because he was 33 at the time. now he s a wiser man. but you know there will be other hot shot prosecutors coming around who will be more committed to winning the case rather than seeking justice. how do you change that culture? it s like everything else. you can t use a band-aid after the fact. you have to go back to the root. it s great that he stepped forward all these years later, what are we going to do about in? people wiser than i including my