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>> a witness says that they see a white toyota that outside of the house with a stocky male getting into the white toe owe that. so if it was al berto, he could be at the scene. >> bligs also found evidence that seechled to link him to butch casey's house. >> the finger prints were never, ever tied to seth. when a ring con gets arrested, he's wearing sneakers that are matched to the crime scene vmts.
I was young. i was scared. i had no clue. >> i was dealing with a situation where my witnesses are changing their test moanny. with the jury unable to break their deadlock, a mistrial was planned. but this time, pablo and seth were tried separately. finally,on november 22th, 18999, the second jury reached a virkt. >> when they came back and said guilty, i just stood there.
>> later that night, seth walked away from prison a free man. seth's case brought up serious questions about the use of video as evidence in murder in the third degreer trials. video is not 100 per cent. sometimes it can create more issues than anyone would guess. >> and the video is powerful for the emotions it wrenches in you. but it doesn't always tell the whole story. >> the video is the truth. it is whand. but it's everything else that was the story.
Committed this crime. they gave me three death sentences, two life sentences and a 15-year sentence. and then they close that door wliend you and it's, like,sdavm,is this is real, now. there is for real. i'm not supposed to die like this. >> i've heard people say the death penalty is not a deterr t deterrent. it's not meant to be. it else called justice. >> from the time of his arrest through years of trials, one of seth's childhood friends had been following this case from afar. after seth was sentenced, she went to visit him on death row.
There was a triple homicide on video. there's your guy. this case is closed. we're just going through the motions. >> we were left with the video looks like seth. it was an uphill battle the whole way. >> ibar and panavar were tried together beginning on june 23rd, 1997. >> prosecutors played the 22 minute video for the first time. >> your guts were wrenching. the courtroom was silent. there's people crying by the end of that video. >> you know, it was evidence, on