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Misconduct in about a third of his cases. there was acknowledgment of prosecutorial misconduct. the appellate courts had repeatedly admonished him. >> sharon stellato also suspected that britt had withheld key physical evidence from the defense. >> we had requested evidence numerous times from the red springs police department and we had been told that they didnt have it, but we knew from past records that couldnt be accurate. so we decided were just going to go to red springs police department....

Murder and get you sentenced to life, not death. >> i said, man, you got to be crazy. you not really trying to fight my case and prove my innocence. is you out of your mind? he said, man, its better than death. >> henry finally agreed to dayans strategy, but it didnt change the outcome. the jury once again found henry guilty and sentenced him to death. >> i think the jurors ultimately concluded that the crime was so horrible that if the death sentence was ever going to be used it had to be used ...

Leons trial, police had requested that fingerprints from a beer can found at the crime scene be tested for a match to a known felon living in the area. >> that was extremely significant because someone from law enforcement made a connection that this particular person must have been a suspect in the sabrina buie murder. next to this guys name there was an s, s for suspect. >> that suspect was none other than roscoe artis, who had taken henry and leon under his wing on death row. >> roscoe artis ...

That she had had on are found on the edge of the field. there are cigarette butts, beer cans, broken sticks with what appear to be blood on the ends of them. her body is taken to the state medical examiners office. physically theres evidence that shes been raped. theres evidence shes been sodomized. then they start an internal examination to determine the cause of death, and they discover she has something stuck in her wind pipe. her underwear had been balled up and put on the end of a stick, an...

And presented the closing statement. >> the state does not have the case to prosecute against mr. mccollum and brown. i said that based on the strength of that evidence if the judge was to order a new trial, i would elect not to retry the cases because the dna evidence negates the confessions. >> the court vacates the convictions of mr. mccollum and mr. brown. >> the judge overturned the conviction and sentence and the judge ordered mr. mccollum and mr. brown to be immediately released. >> this ...

>> many people proclaim their innocence. >> in this case there are a number of things that stink. >> this man is remorseless. >> he needs to pay for it with his life. >> the electric chair flashed in front of my eyes. >> get a conviction at all costs. let the truth fall where it may. ♪ please take the stand and state your name. >> ronnie lee buie. >> and where do you live, mr. buie? >> red springs. >> and what happened the night of september 24th of 1983? >> i worked until about 12:00 that n...

Is like a crucible and you have to heat it up to boil the truth out of them. >> the trial began on october 15th, 1984. the prosecutions case was built around henry and leons confessions, but britt also showed graphic crime scene photos to the jury and called to the stand henrys friend, l.p. sinclair. >> sinclair testified that mccollum had admitted to him that he had murdered and raped sabrina buie. >> it was an easy case to try. there was nothing there for the defense to counter. guilt wasnt a ...