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You go to bed. >> darlies case is currently on hold pending dna testing. cooper believes that the results and specifically those of the bloody fingerprint will finally prove that there was an intruder in the home on the night of the murders. >> if we get it approved the appellate court has to try it or dismiss it. theyre not go being to retry this case in my opinion. well-prepared attorneys with a good strategy will eat the prosecution alive. >> but time is not on darlies side. >> in texas, if y...

Cooper finally got the break he was looking for when the texas court of criminal appeals granted dna testing. >> its good news. weve been fighting for it for five or six years. were trying to get some proof of male dna in the house relative to the crime scene. there was a fingerprint on the couch table and that dna would certainly be one. >> if dna shows that there was in fact an intruder that night, how can darlie ever be repaid for all of the years of her life that have been spent in a nine by...

>> in june of 2008, steven cooper finally got the break he was looking for when the texas court of criminal appeals granted dna testing. >> it is good news. we have been fighting for it for five or six years. were trying to get some proof of some male dna in the house that is connected to the crime scene. the infamous 85 j is a fingerprint on a couch table, and that bloody print would certainly be one. >> if dna ultimately shows that there was in fact an intruder that night, how can darlie ever ...

Hold pending dna testing. cooper believes that the results and specifically those of the bloody fingerprint will finally prove that there was an intruder in the home on the night of the murders. >> if we get it approved the appellate court has to try it or dismiss it. theyre not go being to retry this case in my opinion. well-prepared attorneys with a good strategy will eat the prosecution alive. >> but time is not on darlies side. >> in texas, if youve been sentenced to death, you have three ap...

Cooper believes that the results specifically those of the bloody fingerprint will finally prove that there was an intruder at the home on the night of the murders. >> if we get it reversed by the appellate court, they have to try or dismiss it, with all the evidence that has been established over time. theyre not going to retry this case in my opinion. well prepared attorneys with a good strategy will eat the prosecution alone. >> but time is not on darlies side. >> in texas, if youve been sent...

Was looking for when the texas court of criminal appeals granted dna testing. >> its good news. weve been fighting for it for five or six years. were trying to get some proof of male dna in the house relative to the crime scene. there was a fingerprint on the couch table and that dna would certainly be one. >> if dna shows that there was in fact an intruder that night, how can darlie ever be repaid for all of the years of her life that have been spent in a nine by six cell on death row, and how ...

Courtle criminal appeals granted dna testing. >> it is good news. we have been fighting for it for five or six years. were trying to get some proof of some male dna in the house that is connected to the crime scene. the infamous 85 j is a fingerprint on a couch table, and that bloody print would certainly be one. >> if dna ultimately shows that there was in fact an intruder that night, how can darlie ever be repaid for all the years of her life that have been spent in a nine by six cell on death...

Holes. using a two-point laser, he marked the center of the bullet hole and then followed the bullets path. it showed that the shooter was firing from a standing position. >> clearly few people shoot holding the gun up over their head, and if you realize their body was interposed between that, we only have a few feet to deal with. so it cant be a standing man, for example. it could be a collapsed man or a person nearly down on the floor. >> next, ballistics experts examined the bullet fragment f...

Yet available at the time of the trial the prosecution relied on inexact hair testing methods yielding results that would not be accepted in a court of law today. >> i consulted a couple of forensic experts i knew and there was no way anybody, fbi, no matter where theyre from could say that pubic hair belonged to james duckett. theres no way they could say that. >> as it turned out, the fbis hair and fiber analyst, mike malone had a long history of controversial findings. >> over the years mike ...

Fdle, the florida department of law enforcement had told them, nope. aint nothing there. >> fdle said that hair was probably not mine. 28 out of 30 characteristics didnt match the hair. >> nope, aint nothing there. >> they said we cant do it because there is no root. the state of dna testing at the time was we cant do anything with it. >> we went to the fbi. because theyre the mac daddy of labs. and we asked them to take a look at it. >> mike malone is the fbi expert. he tested it and he comes u...