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But three times to identify him as the shooter. she never challenged the eyewitness about the inaccurate assessment of distance from the shooter. >> before the trial in 2014, i had not seen any hospital records at all. >> reporter: my dad obtained them after the trial at c.j. rice's request. >> many things surprised me. one was a bullet that fractured his pelvis. it just made an even firmer belief that there's no way he could have run. >> reporter: c.j. rice had an alibi, a witness who said he was with him the night of the shooting. >> just from a view of the record, it seemed the alibi was il...

Attorney sanjay weaver took his case on, and weaver did not provide c.j. with an adequate defense. she never obtained the location data for rice's cell phone, which he told her to do, since he said it would show he was nowhere near the crime scene. >> after the trial, c.j. starts telling me, oh, she should have did this. i told her to do this. she didn't listen to me. >> reporter: she never prepared or even met with witnesses, such as my father, who met her for the very first time on the day he was to testify at trial about c.j.'s wound and pain. >> every time i talked extensively with the law...

Let alone walking fast. >> my dad demonstrates here just how slowly he remembers c.j. rice leaving his office that day. >> with great difficulty and with a very great slowness. >> when c.j. rice was named as a suspect, mother krystal cooper met him at the police station so that he could times elephant. >> the detective took his arm to help him walk up the stairs. >> c.j.'s family could not afford legal counsel, so the court appointed private attorney saw jay weaver. and weaver did not provide c.j. with an adequate defense. we were appears to have never visited the crime scene. and never obtain...

To 30 to 60 years in prison. >> if there was a new trial and some of these things were addressed, the jury would have a hard time not having reasonable doubt. >> c. j.'s new attorney, jason applied for conviction relief in county court, arguing that cj rice had ineffective counsel. the same judge who had presided over c. j. rice's trial heard the appeal and he rejected it. see derisive story, which i tell in the new issue of the atlantic magazine, is important because of how unusual it is not. a poor kid with no means and an incompetent court appointed lawyer. the assembly line of the criminal...

Dad had examined c.j. rice just five days earlier. and he insisted c.j. was in no condition to run. >> he had staples over his abdomen over approximately an eight or nine inch surgical envision from his breastbone far as you could go. >> that's because c.j. had been shot five days. >> there's no way this young man was running anywhere, let alone walking fast. >> my dad demonstrates how slowly he remembers c.j. rice leaving his office that day. >> with great difficulty and with very great slowness. >> when c.j. rice was named a suspect, his mother met him at the police station so he could turn ...