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>> at the trial two years later jarrod was not called to the witness stand by the prosecution or the defense attorney, julian bailey. so jarrod's identification of a white man as the murderer was never told to the jury. >> the 5-year-old boy said a number things that were inconsistent. he said it was a black man. he said it was a white man. julian bailey chose not to call him. but nonetheless, there was so much evidence in the case that it wouldn't have changed the result. >> i don't think it was at all unreasonable for the defense to say we're not taking this risk. nobody really knew what he ...

Make me mad. >> they told me that if i'm lying about it they're going to throw my ass in jail for accessory to murder. >> what you fail to realize, how the mother [ muted ] police proved i was there. ain't no [ muted ] body seen me go in there and leave out of there. that's what i'm saying. >> kenneth clair was charged with murder. shortly after his arrest the case against clair got even stronger. >> we were reading a newspaper and clair's picture was in there. >> my mom goes do you see anybody that looks familiar there? i pointed out kenneth clair and i said yeah, that's the guy that was at o...

Caught pauline at a very vulnerable point in her life and they used her. they gave her a story to tell, and she did her best to follow that script. >> scott sanders has investigated corruption in the o.c. d.a.'s office for years and believes both peggy and pauline were manipulated in clair's case. >> what i saw that was important was how particularly they were treating a couple of the critical witnesses in the case. you look at pauline flores's case, the warrant got taken care of. and somehow mike jacobs was able to essentially keep that from a jury. >> mike jacobs, who prosecuted clair's tria...

There. >> most burglars, their objective is to go in and retrieve property without encountering anyone. >> roberta harding joined clair's defense in 1990. >> why would you go back to the place you were just released from prison for being arrested for burglarizing it earlier? he might as well have just left his i.d. card or something. >> clair was released from jail for the burglary just hours before the murder. c.j. believes police targeted clair from the start. >> they had their radar on him all the time. they were going to use a disposable human being that no one would miss that was a menace...

Sir. >> i think it was 20 years had passed and curtis lee had issues with drugs and alcohol and he was in a rehab center when i found him. and he wasn't, you know, too coherent about dates. >> but the person himself i don't remember because i was doing a little partying back then. i may have run across this gentleman and kicked it with him a few times. >> while curtis lee no longer proved reliable, c.j. wondered what else clair's attorney, public defender julian bailey, may have missed in the case. >> julian bailey served me up on a platter. you know, to the d.a. because he was one of them. he...