Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110331:15:18:00
All right. for 14 years a new orleans man was on death row. he was weeks from being executed, and then he got the news. he had been wrongly convicted. a jury agreed, and awarded john thompson $14 million in a civil suit against the new orleans district attorney's office because it hid the blood evidence that could have cleared him. but then on tuesday, the u.s. supreme court, by a vote of 5-4, overturned that compensation. and now thompson gets nothing. here now is john thompson, joining him is john hallway, the author of the book "killing time" which is about thompson's quest to clear his nam...
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