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He had a witness. >> that night i went to the pub. thats where i met curtis sleed. every thursday thats where i would meet him at. wed shoot pool, drank beer, watch a game that was on television. then i had to find me somewhere to sleep. that was that night. >> the public defenders office was saying they couldnt find curtis lee because there were asian people with the last name of lee and there were too many of them and they couldnt single it out. but they werent really looking. i took the case ...

Going to visits, just that daily routine there. then i was believing in the system, thinking that you know, eventually the case is going to be overturned because i know i didnt do this. >> in 2004, after nearly two decades of failed appeals, a friend of clairs hired private investigator c.j. ford. c.j. went to death row to meet kenneth clair face to face. >> when i first met kenneth clair, he was angry. he thought that he had been betrayed and nobody was helping him with his case. i do wrongful ...

Something and youre -- im guilty of it. that just meant, why you keep on trying to put this on me? i didnt -- you know, i had nothing -- it doesnt even involve me. >> yeah, i havent been to new orleans to conduct a survey, a linguistic study, but i would like to hear that from an expert in order to put any stock in that. otherwise it sounds like a very convenient, shifty explanation. >> theres no way that you can listen to that and think that it is consistent with innocence, just cant. ♪ >> af...

Make me mad. >> they told me that if im lying about it theyre going to throw my ass in jail for accessory to murder. >> what you fail to realize, how the mother [ muted ] police proved i was there. aint no [ muted ] body seen me go in there and leave out of there. thats what im saying. >> kenneth clair was charged with murder. shortly after his arrest the case against clair got even stronger. >> we were reading a newspaper and clairs picture was in there. >> my mom goes do you see anybody that l...

Why should kenneth clair be in jail for 30 years because they dont want to run? dna? >> kenneth clair told me in a jailhouse interview, he goes, i know the reason they dont want to say whose dna it is. because its going to come back to a white person. and thats what the kid said. the dna comes back to a white person that was left on the victims body, thats quite embarrassing. >> when we find out who the dna matches, thats going to be the person that committed the crime. >> without releasing the ...

Caught pauline at a very vulnerable point in her life and they used her. they gave her a story to tell, and she did her best to follow that script. >> scott sanders has investigated corruption in the o.c. d.a.s office for years and believes both peggy and pauline were manipulated in clairs case. >> what i saw that was important was how particularly they were treating a couple of the critical witnesses in the case. you look at pauline floress case, the warrant got taken care of. and somehow mike ...

There. >> most burglars, their objective is to go in and retrieve property without encountering anyone. >> roberta harding joined clairs defense in 1990. >> why would you go back to the place you were just released from prison for being arrested for burglarizing it earlier? he might as well have just left his i.d. card or something. >> clair was released from jail for the burglary just hours before the murder. c.j. believes police targeted clair from the start. >> they had their radar on him all...

Is still in prison, awaiting resentencing. >> from my understanding, orange county decided not to seek the death penalty again. so more than likely my sentence is going to be life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> for the last 29 years. i lived my life. i carried myself on death row like there was no tomorrow. after 29 years of living a certain way, now i have to readjust, and going to a different rant of this battle. >> clairs past was never taken into account during his death sen...

Room, which was diagonal from my room, stripped her down and tied her up. and then he walked out of the room. and when he walked out of the room he looked into my room and i seen him eye to eye. he seen me. we caught eyes. and he kept going. he walked into the kitchen and he got a knife. >> kai hendrickson pointed police to a possible suspect, a local transient whod been squatting in the home next door and had burglarized kai and peggys home a week earlier. the mans name was kenneth clair. >> i ...

Thanks to him, i dont believe that anybody has the right to take another life. >> the whole idea angers me so much that i see this stuff happen with people. thats why i got to keep on working on kenneth clairs case. this case has to be an example for all the other kenneth clairs. >> it was an air-tight case. youre just chasing rainbows if youre thinking that youre going to find innocence here. >> whether hes guilty or innocence, i lean toward hes probably innocent, but honestly i dont know. its ...