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Evidence of duckett's alibi and depose some key witnesses. >> jack assured me that he would handle this. don't worry about it. consider the short vacation. he said we'll get this straightened out will. >> i kept telling jack, i think you're overconfident and taking too much for granted. you think they don't have that strong of a case. but you're not trying to convince me. you're trying to convince 12 other people. >> in order to retain jack edmond, james duckett's family had taken out a mortgage on a moment putting their confidence in one of the most renowned defense attorneys in florida. >> e...

Happened. but you don't have a smoking gun. you don't have what a lot of people demand in a case. >> from a legal point of view, he really should never have been convicted. it's a good thing that he was because there would probably be other dead kids out there. >> you know, i'm not a fry 'em all, fry 'em sooner, that sort of thing. i feel the weight of the state deciding to take someone's life. but if the death penalty is appropriate for any case, it's appropriate for this case. because of what he did to teresa mcabee. >> god forbid if he got death row and was a serial sex killer, how many mor...

Hired and mentored duckett held fast in his belief that investigators were focusing on the wrong man. >> my confidence in him hadn't been shaken. i was of the opinion that the truth is going to come out. he is going to be exonerated as a suspect. we're going on get to business and find out who murdered this child. >> last time i seen her she turned the corner and was headed home. >> do you want to know something? you're not telling me the truth. >> yes, sir. >> no, you're not. >> he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. duckett's trial began on april 25th, 1988. assistant state at...

>> marshall contacted jim. whoa, i know nothing about this guy. i have no reason to testify him. from jim's point of view, maybe this will be the person who is able to get somebody to listen. >> with the case at a dead end and duckett headed toward execution, marshall frank had an idea. >> he said i've got a friend that used to work for the "miami herald." and i had read adam buchanan's stories before over the years. and so i knew who the name was. and so i felt excited. >> edna buchanan was a pulitzer crime winning crime report he for the "miami herald." >> an outstanding reporter, one of the...

This was never done. >> in 1997, beth wells appealed the case to the lake county circuit court in florida. hoping to get a new trial for duckett, wells called jack edmond to the stand to account for his poor performance. edmond told the court, i blew it. >> i trusted jack edmond. i trusted that 25 years of experience as a criminal attorney, that he would correct this and i was wrong. >> beth wells also offered alternate suspects for the crime starting with excould have beens and migrant workers who stayed at the mcabee home. >> teresa's uncle testified that she had complained to him that there...