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He had a witness. >> that night i went to the pub. that's where i met curtis sleed. every thursday that's where i would meet him at. we'd shoot pool, drank beer, watch a game that was on television. then i had to find me somewhere to sleep. that was that night. >> the public defender's office was saying they couldn't find curtis lee because there were asian people with the last name of lee and there were too many of them and they couldn't single it out. but they weren't really looking. i took the case and found curtis lee in about three or four days. >> we've been trying to get a hold of you b...

Going to visits, just that daily routine there. then i was believing in the system, thinking that you know, eventually the case is going to be overturned because i know i didn't do this. >> in 2004, after nearly two decades of failed appeals, a friend of clair's hired private investigator c.j. ford. c.j. went to death row to meet kenneth clair face to face. >> when i first met kenneth clair, he was angry. he thought that he had been betrayed and nobody was helping him with his case. i do wrongful conviction cases. i do cold cases. i'm trying to look for the couple people that we keep on talkin...

Something and you're -- i'm guilty of it. that just meant, why you keep on trying to put this on me? i didn't -- you know, i had nothing -- it doesn't even involve me. >> yeah, i haven't been to new orleans to conduct a survey, a linguistic study, but i would like to hear that from an expert in order to put any stock in that. otherwise it sounds like a very convenient, shifty explanation. >> there's no way that you can listen to that and think that it is consistent with innocence, just can't. ♪ >> after spending more than 30 years in prison, kenneth clair now awaits the outcome of his resent...

Make me mad. >> they told me that if i'm lying about it they're going to throw my ass in jail for accessory to murder. >> what you fail to realize, how the mother [ muted ] police proved i was there. ain't no [ muted ] body seen me go in there and leave out of there. that's what i'm saying. >> kenneth clair was charged with murder. shortly after his arrest the case against clair got even stronger. >> we were reading a newspaper and clair's picture was in there. >> my mom goes do you see anybody that looks familiar there? i pointed out kenneth clair and i said yeah, that's the guy that was at o...

Why should kenneth clair be in jail for 30 years because they don't want to run? dna? >> kenneth clair told me in a jailhouse interview, he goes, i know the reason they don't want to say whose dna it is. because it's going to come back to a white person. and that's what the kid said. the dna comes back to a white person that was left on the victim's body, that's quite embarrassing. >> when we find out who the dna matches, that's going to be the person that committed the crime. >> without releasing the name of the individual, citing a right to privacy, the d.a.'s office did make public some det...