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Into evidence of him lying, asking the witness, quote, today is the first day that you got in front of anybody other than the defense attorney and told them about where c.j. was. sanjay weaver also inexplicably called someone who was not with c.j. at the time of the crime as an ally witness. it all made c.j. look guilty. we can't ask sanjay weaver about any of this. she passed away in 2019. c.j. was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison. >> if there were a new trial and some of these things were addressed, the jury would have a hard time not having a reasonable doubt. >> reporter: c.j.'s new a...

Tapper, who spent decades as a pediatrician in south philadelphia. for years, my dad's been telling me about a former patient, c.j. rice, currently doing 30 to 60 years in prison, for a crime my father insists rice could physically not have committed. >> it was impossible. >> no dna, no crime scene evidence, ties rice to the crime. one eyewitness, who had known c.j. for years, repeatedly told police she could not identify the gunman. >> i think it was 20 years where she had spoken to at least three different officers and never said, look, this is someone in my neighborhood. >> reporter: but ov...

>> we just told you the story of c. j. rice, a story to remind us that the sixth amendment which guarantees the right to counsel and a competent one really is nothing more than an empty promise in the united states. joining us to discuss , barry scheck, cofounder of the innocence project. and van jones, an activist working on the cj's case. let me start with you, there's something to be said about how c. j.'s case was able to start. this rival granting shooting thing, they didn't really seem like there was a great desire. we need to make an arrest, we need to make an arrest and not really we n...

Actually be putting him here. this is 20 feet away. >> where i was before, all the way over there. that is what, like 50 feet away maybe even more depending on exactly where he was behind this car. that was over here. >> witnesses said they saw the gunman running, but my dad had examined the 17-year-old c.j. rice just five days earlier and he insisted that c.j. was in no condition to run. >> he had staples in his abdomen over approximately eight or nine-inch surgical incision from his breast bone, straight down far as you can go. >> that is because three works earlier, so jay wright had been s...

Murder. rice not only has insisted on his innocence, but my dad who was his pediatrician at the time has said that rice would have been physically incapable of committing the crime in question. now, we would think that would have played a key part, a key role in his defense. but it has just been one of the many ways that his lawyer failed to c.j. right. and the injustice is far worse than i ever could have imagined. >> this is my dad doctor theodore tapper who spent decades as a pediatrician and south philadelphia. for years, my dad has been telling me about a former patient, c.j. rice. curren...