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With interest in high profile cases. >> i remember feeling a very strong sense that things that happened in john's trial were just fundamentally unfair. >> banks and cooney went to meet their new client. >> the first time i met john thompson was at the louisiana state penitentiary at angola. and frankly, we had a bit of a hard time communicating. >> didn't know nothing about new orleans and we had a criminal justice system here that locked up more people in our state penitentiary. so first thing i asked them is, do you really understand what you're up against? >> neither michael or i had any i...

>> gordon and i normally represent big companies with litigation, trade secret litigation but this was my first case representing a criminal defendant. >> michael banks and gordon cooney were high powered corporate lawyers with interest in pro bono cases. >> the case itself did not suggest innocence. there was nothing we read that caused us to say, wow, this guy didn't do it. i was skeptical of his innocence, but i remember feeling a very strong sense from reading john's file that things that happened in john's trial were just fundamentally unfair. >> banks and cooney went to meet their new cl...

Secret litigation, but this was my first case representing a criminal defendant. >> michael banks and gordon cooney were high powered corporate lawyers with an interest in pro bono cases. >> the case itself did not suggest innocence. there was nothing we read that caused us to say, wow! this guy didn't do it. i was skeptical of his innocence. but i remember feeling a very strong sense from reading john's file that things that happened in john's trial were just fundamentally unfair. >> banks and cooney went to meat their new client. >> the first time i met john thompson was at the louisiana sta...