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Testimony and we wouldnt be able to use that evidence effectively if we couldnt cross examine him live on the stand. >> michael and gordon proposed an unorthodoxed solution. after freemans testimony was read into the record they would cross-examine the empty witness stand as if he were on the stand. >> we took the evidence of the lies and put them in the form of questions. >> you told the jury you didnt know that john thompson was going to rob someone. isnt it true, however, that you set out to ...

>> michael and gordon proposed an unorthodoxed solution. after freemans testimony was read into the record they would cross-examine the empty witness stand as if he were on the stand. >> we took the evidence of the lies and put them in the form of questions. >> you told the jury you didnt know that john thompson was going to rob someone. isnt it true, however, that you set out to rob someone? silence hung in the air after each question was posed, giving the jury time to imagine freemans response...

Jail the next day. and now we found out that he had to stand trial with a risk of spending the rest of his life in prison. >> on the morning of may 7th, 2003, john thompson stood before the same judge in the same courtroom where he had been sentenced to death 18 years earlier. michael and gordon had a problem. they couldnt attack the damaging testimony of kevin freeman, the man they believed murdered ray liuzza. >> freeman was shot dead in 1995 while committing a robbery. >> with freeman dead, h...

>> michael and gordon proposed an unorthodoxed solution. after freemans testimony was read into the record they would cross examine the empty witness chair as if freeman was on the stand. >> we took the evidence of the lies and put them in the form of questions. >> you told the jury you didnt know that john thompson was going to rob someone. isnt it true, however, that you set out to rob someone? silence hung in the air after each question was posed, giving the jury time to imagine freemans resp...