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Possibility of getting her father back in her life. he had missed her graduation, her wedding, and the birth of a son. did you put much hope or faith in this innocence project? >> yeah, a lot of hope. tons of hope. my hope lied in that the people with the capabilities of making something happen actually would. >> they had subpoena power. they could get access to all the prosecutions records, all the police records, everything that the defense never had access to. and we couldnt get access to. th...

About this case and about my life in general that are against the odds that things like that dont even make me blink anymore. >> and that support has led to hundreds of thousands of dollars for dna testing. of a hair found at the crime scene. and that has led to some startling revelations. >> the dna evidence proves there were no sexual assaults. forensics produced that as well. the material that does exist, all three defendants are eliminated from it. they couldnt have produced it. and on the o...

Stunned to find out that there was not, in my opinion, a single piece of credible evidence in a death case of this mans guilt. >> damien echols, jason baldwin and jessie misskelley, now known as the west memphis three, have all found supporters from all over the world, including celebrities, like actor johnny depp. and rock musician eddie vedder. do you know how rare it is for someone on death row to be set free? >> there are so many things about this case and about my life in general that are a...

>> there are so many things about this case and about my life in general that are against the odds that things like that dont even make me blink anymore. >> and that support has led to hundreds of thousands of dollars for dna testing of a hair found at the crime scene. and that has led to some startling revelations. >> the dna evidence proves there were no sexual assaults. forensics produced that, as well. the material that does exist, all three defendants are eliminated from it. they couldnt ha...

To a new york hospital, the little girl was abducted by someone her birth mom and dad would go on to tell authorities was in a nurses uniform, they sued the city and settled the case but they never saw her little girl again until now. >> i never gave up hope. i always thought my niece was coming back, just the way my sister said she was coming back was the way she came back. >> carlena was given a new nail and moved to bridgeport, connecticut, she says her new mom was a drug abuser and always ra...

>> do you know how rare it is for someone on death row to be set free? >> there are so many things about this case and about my life in general that are against the odds that things like that dont even make me blink anymore. >> and that support has led to hundreds of thousands of dollars for dna testing. of a hair found at the crime scene. and that has led to some startling revelations. >> the dna evidence proves there were no sexual assaults. forensics produced that as well. the material that d...

And rock musician eddie vedder. >> do you know how rare it is for someone on death row to be set free? >> there are so many things about this case and about my life in general that are against the odds that things like that dont even make me blink anymore. >> and that support has led to hundreds of thousands of dollars for dna testing. for dna testing of a hair found at the crime scene, and that has led to some startling revelations. >> the dna evidence proves there were no sexual assaults. fore...

>> do you know how rare it is for someone on death row to be set free? >> there are so many things about this case and about my life in general that are against the odds that things like that dont even make me blink anymore. >> and that support has led to hundreds of thousands of dollars for dna testing. for dna testing of a hair found at the crime scene, and that has led to some startling revelations. >> the dna evidence proves there were no sexual assaults. forensics proves that as well. the m...

>> the key oral argument is that the state of arkansas passed a dna statute precisely to permit a way for people who had been wrongly convicted to overturn their convictions, even after appeal. that the dna evidence in this case -- none of it links any of these defendants to the crime. there is dna evidence that points in another direction. that theyre -- each supposed building block of the states case, each part of it has been eroded by new evidence. the notion that a knife was used in this cas...

>> oh, sure. the original testing, dna testing, barry sheck of the innocence project was critical in setting up the original testing. in fact, in our arguments on the 30th, the northwestern innocence project has submitted a brief amicus curaie, that in most of these conviction cases you have either a false confession by a mentally handicapped juvenile or a phony expert testimony or wonderful eyewitness testimony. what theyve demonstrated and weve demonstrated is this is the perfect storm of all ...