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Caught pauline at a very vulnerable point in her life and they used her. they gave her a story to tell, and she did her best to follow that script. >> scott sanders has investigated corruption in the o.c. d.a.'s office for years and believes both peggy and pauline were manipulated in clair's case. >> what i saw that was important was how particularly they were treating a couple of the critical witnesses in the case. you look at pauline flores's case, the warrant got taken care of. and somehow mike jacobs was able to essentially keep that from a jury. >> mike jacobs, who prosecuted clair's tria...

There. >> most burglars, their objective is to go in and retrieve property without encountering anyone. >> roberta harding joined clair's defense in 1990. >> why would you go back to the place you were just released from prison for being arrested for burglarizing it earlier? he might as well have just left his i.d. card or something. >> clair was released from jail for the burglary just hours before the murder. c.j. believes police targeted clair from the start. >> they had their radar on him all the time. they were going to use a disposable human being that no one would miss that was a menace...

Is still in prison, awaiting resentencing. >> from my understanding, orange county decided not to seek the death penalty again. so more than likely my sentence is going to be life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> for the last 29 years. i lived my life. i carried myself on death row like there was no tomorrow. after 29 years of living a certain way, now i have to readjust, and going to a different rant of this battle. >> clair's past was never taken into account during his death sentencing, including trauma, such as sexual abuse he suffered at angola prison as a teenager. >> kenn...

Room, which was diagonal from my room, stripped her down and tied her up. and then he walked out of the room. and when he walked out of the room he looked into my room and i seen him eye to eye. he seen me. we caught eyes. and he kept going. he walked into the kitchen and he got a knife. >> kai hendrickson pointed police to a possible suspect, a local transient who'd been squatting in the home next door and had burglarized kai and peggy's home a week earlier. the man's name was kenneth clair. >> i think clair's looking for more. he went back there because he'd already robbed them once. when he...

Thanks to him, i don't believe that anybody has the right to take another life. >> the whole idea angers me so much that i see this stuff happen with people. that's why i got to keep on working on kenneth clair's case. this case has to be an example for all the other kenneth clairs. >> it was an air-tight case. you're just chasing rainbows if you're thinking that you're going to find innocence here. >> whether he's guilty or innocence, i lean toward he's probably innocent, but honestly i don't know. it's not an issue for me. the issue for me and my coverage is did he get a fair trial, and i ag...