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And your team. i can't imagine the phone calls, the e-mails, the pleas from so many people to try to get individuals behind bars exonerated. why take his case? >> well, michael's was one of the first cases that we got. and actually, his trial lawyer, great guy named bill allison, who was a professor at the university of texas law school, tried his case. in 1989, he came to me and said, barry, there have been very few instances, in fact to him, it was the only one where he had taken a case to trial and verdict where he was completely convinced that his client was innocent. you know, didn't know...

Learn the lessons from his case. and one of the key lessons from his case, which it's clear to me that ken anderson hasn't learned, is that you don't hide exculpatory evidence. there's a lot that can be done to make sure that prosecutors don't do that. let me be the first to say it's not an epidemic, but it is not episodic either. when it happens and there are prosecutors who deliberately and willfully are hiding exculpatory evidence, they have to be held account. that's what happened with ken anderson. there are things we can do all across the united states, judges tomorrow, every state and f...

Search you. you're given a pair of state boxers. i realized the full gravity of the place because as i was standing in line to get my boots, i noticed a guy in front of me. i counted 13 stab wounds in his back. he had scars. >> bend over, spread your cheeks. >> it really drove home for me how very serious the place was, that they weren't playing. no time to joke around. nothing funny about this. and everybody was deadly serious. and you better get your heart right. >> joining me now, live, barry sheck, cofounder and co director of the innocence project, this tremendous organization responsible...

Nyu law professor kenji yoshino. barry shekt, co-director of the innocence project and the man in the photo. kurt bloods worth, an advocacy director at witness to innocence. i want to start with you. tell me a little bit about how your story turned into your work. >> well, in 1984, i was accused of a brutal crime that happened in maryland. a long story short, after two years on death row thanks to people like barry here, we submitted for the dna testing. i was freed. it took another ten years to -- from pressure from barry and i and others to do a dna testing. this was all based on a guy descr...

Realized early on in my incarceration in this whole thing that an innocent person could be executed. and i could never support a death penalty with that happening. we have 142 exonerated death row inmates in the united states. a lot of them are members of witness innocence, the group did on advocacy. that moment in that photograph -- >> a great one. >> lifting everybody up and it was the most unique thing i've ever experienced. >> barry, i want to talk about dna and innocence for a second. because feels like dna has become the kind of evidentiary basis on which we've finally been able to say, ...