Kenneth Clair News Today

An attorney for the man convicted in the 1984 killing of a Santa Ana nanny wants a private lab to conduct the tests, while prosecutors object.

Kenneth Clair has long maintained his innocence in the death of Santa Ana nanny Linda Faye Rodgers, becoming a national cause celebre.

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The judge ruled in their favor. the privacy act trumps my constitutional rights. >> now running out of options, c.j. turned to the court of public opinion, creating an online petition to demand the release of the dna results. >> the petition is just asking the d.a.s office to either release the results of the dna evidence to the defense or to exonerate kenneth clair. thats why we have 161,000 people, because its a logical question. i had plans on talking -- writing letters to obama and jerry bro...

In march of 2015, the ninth circuit court of appeals issued its judgment on kenneth clairs request for a new trial and re-sentencing. and while the court upheld clairs conviction, they did strike down his death sentence. >> we had a reversal of the death penalty by federal court. and so it came back now for sentencing. its still pending resentencing. theres going to be some litigation in court about whether or not he should be sentenced to life without parole at this point. >> the appellate cour...

Crime. >> scott moxley, along with c.j. ford, believed the case against kenneth clair was full of holes, and they soon came to believe that the most damning evidence against clair had been bought and paid for by the orange county d.a.s office. to give than to receive.ter some may disagree. others wont believe it. and some just wont have the words. join t-mobile and get the samsung galaxy s9 free. right? but hurry offer ends soon. ♪ our because of smoking.ital. but we still had to have a cigare...

Couldnt remember her parents, people that had visited her. >> she didnt remember me. we had been friends for years. she didnt remember her mom, her dad, anybody. >> she didnt have her faculties. she wouldnt have even known who kenneth clair was. theres no possible way that this lady could have gotten in an accident and recalled so much detail. so when i interviewed pauline flores, she realized that she was taken advantage of to some degree. >> i think either the police or the district attorney o...

While investigating kenneth clairs case, c.j. ford found a breakthrough when he learned what the sole witness to the murder, young jarrod hessling, had initially told police. >> when i read the brief, it said something like the boy said it was a white man that did it. and then all of a sudden i see a black man was convicted for the crime. so i couldnt figure out what happened between this being a white man and a black man being put in custody. >> just hours after the murder jarrod gave a stateme...

5-year-old kid watching this. >> at trial prosecutors tied clair to the crime scene with items like peggys jewelry, stolen during the murder, and pauline flores, who described seeing clair with these same items later that night. but nothing was more damning for kenneth clair than his own words. >> aint no mother [ muted ] body seen me go in there and leave out of there. thats what the [ muted ] im saying. >> an innocent man would not say the things that kenneth clair says on that tape. the way h...

Kenneth clair. >> we never even knew. didnt find out until maybe like 2008, that they had been running dna testing. and from what i know, ive been totally excluded. >> the orange county d.a.s office admitted that the dna did not match kenneth clair. but they refused to say who the dna belonged to. >> now they find out that it was someone elses dna left there, and theyre hiding who it is. thats just crazy. >> excuse me? uh, that is material. youve already ruled out your prime suspect, whos been c...