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Into evidence of him lying, asking the witness, quote, today is the first day that you got in front of anybody other than the defense attorney and told them about where c.j. was. sanjay weaver also inexplicably called someone who was not with c.j. at the time of the crime as an ally witness. it all made c.j. look guilty. we cant ask sanjay weaver about any of this. she passed away in 2019. c.j. was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison. >> if there were a new trial and some of these things were ...

Tapper, who spent decades as a pediatrician in south philadelphia. for years, my dads been telling me about a former patient, c.j. rice, currently doing 30 to 60 years in prison, for a crime my father insists rice could physically not have committed. >> it was impossible. >> no dna, no crime scene evidence, ties rice to the crime. one eyewitness, who had known c.j. for years, repeatedly told police she could not identify the gunman. >> i think it was 20 years where she had spoken to at least thr...

>> we just told you the story of c. j. rice, a story to remind us that the sixth amendment which guarantees the right to counsel and a competent one really is nothing more than an empty promise in the united states. joining us to discuss , barry scheck, cofounder of the innocence project. and van jones, an activist working on the cjs case. let me start with you, theres something to be said about how c. j.s case was able to start. this rival granting shooting thing, they didnt really seem like th...

Actually be putting him here. this is 20 feet away. >> where i was before, all the way over there. that is what, like 50 feet away maybe even more depending on exactly where he was behind this car. that was over here. >> witnesses said they saw the gunman running, but my dad had examined the 17-year-old c.j. rice just five days earlier and he insisted that c.j. was in no condition to run. >> he had staples in his abdomen over approximately eight or nine-inch surgical incision from his breast bon...

Murder. rice not only has insisted on his innocence, but my dad who was his pediatrician at the time has said that rice would have been physically incapable of committing the crime in question. now, we would think that would have played a key part, a key role in his defense. but it has just been one of the many ways that his lawyer failed to c.j. right. and the injustice is far worse than i ever could have imagined. >> this is my dad doctor theodore tapper who spent decades as a pediatrician and...

Some voices and broke some mics on that one. 53 yards for the wins, students storm the field and chaos ensues. final minute, liberty down 7. they have to heave it to the end zone. the ball pops back and what do you know, demario douglas comes down with a touchdown liberty. theyre now down one and coach says lets go for two and the win but coach gets burned. c.j. cant punch it in on the reverse. and cal at notre dame, irish plenty used to hail marys. watch this ball bounce around for what seems t...

History. >> first of all, you cannot fix what you dont face. i am a shining this light because, for my own family, i have learned over the years of my ancestors who were enslaved in the commonwealth of kentucky, and i have had great uncles who are lynched. i did not know that when i was on the floor of the house representatives as a legislator in kentucky, i will come home and my family would call me and say that, c.j., you are talking about your own uncles. it requires, this woman requires lead...