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Some way. >> little did we know we were not only getting somebody with real expertise in medical malpractice, but someone with a real passion, somebody whose brother and father were united states attorneys in oklahoma somebody who played football at oklahoma, and was a talented trial lawyer and a great human being. so that was good luck. >> i was honored to be part of that in any way i could. they asked me to take the case pro bono and to file a motion for dna testing for michael morton. and i d...

Ting in 1988. my colleague peter neufeld and i became expert in dna testing and immediately realized that it had the potential to exonerate the wrongfully convicted as well as find people who really committed the crimes. >> the truth is that barry and i had been talking about michael morton since the innocence project opened its doors in 1992. >> and bill was one of those people who commands enormous respect amongst his peers, across texas, and across the country. when he looks you in the eye ki...

>> less than six hours after henry said he saw williams and cater here, police heard a splash under this bridge. caters body washed up downstream two days later. 30 years ago, there was no dna testing. now there is. and so new evidence. remember those two human hairs found inside 11-year-old patrick baltazars shirt? in 2007, the hair fragments were sent to the fbis dna laboratory in quantico, virginia. the result? the lab said it found this dna sequence in only 29 out of more than 1,100 samples ...

And so the results were all coming back negative, negative, negative. in february of 2005, we filed our first motion. and we sought dna testing on the swabs from christines body. we asked for the bloody bandanna found a hundred yards behind the house along what we always believed to be the escape route of the murderer to be dna tested. john bradley was the district attorney when we wanted the tests done. so i called up mr. bradley and i introduced myself. and i tried to explain to him the logic ...

But i told the court, and im quoting, your honor, there is a blood stained bandanna that was found at the crime scene. it was found, taken into custody by the sheriff. it contained a hair. this bandanna may contain the blood of the victim christine morton. plus perhaps mingled with the blood of the murderer. but it may also contain skin cells, saliva, sweat, and theres also this hair that may contain the dna of the murderer. theyve never been subjected to dna testing. >> i was very honest with t...

Our first motion. and we sought dna testing on the swabs from christines body. we asked for the bloody bandanna found a hundred yards behind the house along what we always believed to be the escape route of the murderer to be dna tested. john bradley was the district attorney when we wanted the tests done. so i called up mr. bradley and i introduced myself. and i tried to explain to him the logic of what we were doing, that we were only seeking the truth. and he said it would muddy the waters. t...

Ting in 1988. my colleague peter neufeld and i became expert in dna testing and immediately realized that it had the potential to exonerate the wrongfully convicted as well as find people who really committed the crimes. >> the truth is that barry and i had been talking about michael morton since the innocence project opened its doors in 1992. >> and bill was one of those people who commands enormous respect amongst his peers, across texas, and across the country. when he looks you in the eye ki...

Trying to piece together the truth think the meaning of the story is less clear-cut. >> one of the problems that weve got is its very difficult frankly to tell an israelite from a canaanite. >> reporter: eric klein thinks its possible that modern dna testing will show that present-day palestinians and jews who are locked in a modern struggle of biblical proportions might go back to the same ancient tribe. >> if it turns out the israelites and the canaanites are one and the same, not only would y...

Continuing it just like my brother did it and my father did it and my grandfather did it. it goes back all the way to the bible days. >> they had marched 175 kilometers overnight. a journey that ended here in the disputed golan heights along the syrian border. the cadets families joined them for the final stretch. >> joshua used a sword to conquer from jericho. nobody picked up their bags and said, dear joshua, god promised you. here it is. >> historians trying to piece together the truth think ...

Said, dear, joshua, god promised you. here it is. >> historians trying to piece together the truth think the meaning of the story is less clear cut. >> one of the problems weve got is that its very difficult to tell an israelite from a kanenite. >> they think dna testing will show that they might go back to the same ancient. >> they are one of the same. not only would you have to throw out the story, but you might find out the palestinians are related. theyre either cousins or brothers. what doe...