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They touched her. so the physical evidence, it defies science, it defies common sense. >> it was just a perfect storm of bad luck. you know, between the choices i made to get that truck stuck in the ditch, things that were out of my control, the tunnel vision on the police, the attorney i had that went to prison, the jury who decided there wasn't much to go on, but yet convicted me anyway. >> reporter: in 2007, chris mumma brought the case to the newly formed north carolina innocence inquiry commission. it was the first and only government panel in the country created to free the wrongfully im...

Structure of that confession, it reads like it's written by someone investigating a crime scene. >> reporter: the confession was the linchpin of a case with no physical evidence. was there any evidence whatsoever linking him to the crime? >> no. the only -- the only thing that puts floyd in this case at all is the fictional confession. >> reporter: but it was enough to charge floyd brown. coming up, an innocent man locked away for 14 years. floyd, did you kill that woman? >> nope. i sure didn't. later, hundreds of other cases where the crime lab withheld evidence. >> they're the prosecution'...

>> over the last 20 years a culture has developed at the sbi that basically the ends justify the means. and if law enforcement, local law enforcement, tell the sbi that so and so is their man, then the sbi is going to go out and find whatever evidence they can. and if they can't find any, in floyd's case they couldn't, they manufactured it. >> reporter: floyd is still upset about his encounter with sbi agent mark isley. >> he kept saying, i don't like your attitude. mark isley saying he don't like my attitude. >> reporter: you speaking about mark isley? >> mark isley, yeah. he told me he don't...

Resigned from greg's case three months before trial and was disbarred for fraud and embezzlement, leaving little time for his new lawyer to prepare. >> he said this was the weakest case he had ever seen in his entire career. he was really confident that they could get it dismissed and so he wasn't going to present any evidence. >> reporter: but the prosecution presented overwhelming evidence, an eyewitness who claims to have seen taylor with the victim, a dog that picked up the victim's scent in taylor's truck. a jailhouse snitch who testified that taylor confessed. but perhaps most convincing...

>> reporter: but floyd was free. the judge dismissed the charges against him ruling that there was nothing in the case, including the alleged confession, that was convincing evidence. how long you been living here, floyd? >> a long time. >> reporter: you like it? >> yeah, i like it. >> reporter: three years to the day after that release, floyd brown struggles to understand what happened. you knew you weren't supposed to be there. right? >> yeah, i knew i didn't supposed to be there. >> reporter: but you were there for 14 years. >> yeah. >> reporter: that's a long time. >> yeah. >> reporter: fl...