CNN Death Row Stories April 7, 2014 01:14:00
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...
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