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And your team. i can't imagine the phone calls, the e-mails, the pleas from so many people to try to get individuals behind bars exonerated. why take his case? >> well, michael's was one of the first cases that we got. and actually, his trial lawyer, great guy named bill allison, who was a professor at the university of texas law school, tried his case. in 1989, he came to me and said, barry, there have been very few instances, in fact to him, it was the only one where he had taken a case to trial and verdict where he was completely convinced that his client was innocent. you know, didn't know...
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