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Resulted in his execution, the possible punishment would have been the prosecutors' been executed themselves if they were engaging in that kind of criminal homicide. that is how egregious it was. that is why the court cut off liability but the prosecutors are responsible for this, the d.a. himself is not because they don't have a lot of general control over the actions of the deputy district attorney. it's a narrow issue. >> gregg: connick was indicted by federal prosecutors for suppress ago lab report of the kind hidden from thompson in this case. is it possible that connick created a culture...

Death row. and length hour investigation finds it on microfiche and then we have the district attorney saying that, he was -- i find it so offensive. >> gregg: here is the deal. the prosecutors who did this are despicable people. if i my mie ray they would be on death row but i actually think the supreme court in throwing out the verdict got it right. i think you agree and explain? >> the bottom line was, there is a cut off of liability in this case. it's technical issue. what the d.a. did was something so fundamental, something you learn in the first five minutes of law school. turning over e...

Federally indicted for this type of practice. you have a case that was prior in which they overturned from louisiana having this exhaustively of with holding exculpatory information. >> gregg: the elected d.a. we should mention, he is the father of the famous actor and musician. his office has been previously chastised by non-other supreme court for similar stuff. one of the worst records in the country for mishandling evidence. doesn't that suggest a us is tell i can failure or pattern of conduct that connick was intentionally indifferent to the rights of this defendant? >> yeah. i think it d...

D.a. himself. i think this was the appropriate decision the supreme court because of that. he could ask for a federal civil rights investigation. he could sue the prosecutors individually and collect from them. as far as the issue it was correct. >> gregg: one of the prosecutors in the case, one the bad guys, made a deathbed confession to his colleague he had hidden the blood reports from the defense. that means it was deliberate which means this isn't a case of negligent training as thompson alleged in his $14 million lawsuit? >>, but i don't necessarily agree with that. i got to tell you, i ...