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Touching it. >> no business no authority, no right, and bill the law hi is correct. months later, suddenly, a heart arrives. the -- they did receive a heart that the military claimed was their sons. but they did dna testing. it was somebody elses heart, or at least thats where all the evidence points. ha is here. what are the parenting telling us? >> i spoke with his mom, and she told me families of the fallen are entitled to know the truth no matter how terrible the truth it. sentimentses of th...

About our motion for dna testing. he just ruled on that without a hearing. i pointed out that weve now been fighting for three years to get this testing, and that mr. bradley had fought us every step of the way. at the time i thought three years was a long time. 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...

Independent, nonprofit entity starting 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 innocent project opened its doors in 1992. >> and bill was one of those people who commands enormous respect among his peers, in texas and across the country. and when...

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, theres also this hair that may contain the dna of the murderer. theyve never been subjected to dna testing." >> i was very honest with the judges we were in front of. i would say, look, judge, we dont know if this bandanna is connected to the crime. it certainly seems like a real possibility given that it...

Im just a -- im just a guy in prison. and i came to realize that the simplest thing was that i had cried out to god. hey, i got nothing here. show me something. and all that happened was i got an answer. he showed me something. i said, my life changed in this room. in that prison cell, on ramsey one, my world changed. >> the innocence project is an independent, nonprofit entity starting in 1988. my colleague peter neufeld and i became expert in dna testing and immediately realized that it had th...

Innocent. weve had enormous success with people who are on parole and are out of jail and they insist, i need that test to vindicate myself. >> in 1981 when the victim was raped, semen samples were taken from her body, clothing, and bed sheets. if those old samples can be found and if they havent been ravaged by time, scientists can perform dna testing. since lowery is out of prison, he cant demand a test. he must ask for permission from the current riley county prosecutor bill kennedy. >> i rem...

Independent non-profit entity starting 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 countr...

I love sports so much. i couldnt get involved with my son and my daughter the way i wanted to. >> the agony is made worse by the knowledge that one bad decision made under extreme pressure when he was just 22 years old has cost him so much. >> i tore myself up over the years about why i confessed, you know, why i dealt with it that way. i dont know why i did it. >> the dark period lasts for six years until lowery reads news reports about the efforts of the new york-based innocence project. >> id...

>> there is no scientific basis for time and death based on stomach contents alone. all of the medical literature then and of course now says that. dr. bayardo didnt see the body until it was too late to do a rigor mortis or livor mortis analysis. so he did this stomach contents analysis. and it was probably on the basis of that stomach contents junk science that michael was convicted. >> from the autopsy were vaginal swabs, oral swabs, fingernail clippings. so we had those tested thinking that ...

That. dr. bayardo didnt see the body until it was too late to do a rigor mortis or livor mortis analysis. so he did this stomach contents analysis. and it was probably on the basis of that stomach contents junk science that michael was convicted. >> from the autopsy were vaginal swabs, oral swabs, fingernail clippings. so we had those tested thinking that will reveal the assailant. and so the results were all coming back negative, negative, negative. in february of 2005, we filed our first motio...