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You know, i'm like -- the system worked. you know, it worked. >> ken, who still maintained his innocence, was sentenced to life in prison. and that would be it, end of story. except -- coincidence is such a strange and powerful thing, isn't it? it's a curious story the way you encountered this case, hmm? >> yes. i was visiting another client who had been charged with murder. >> defense attorney john edmunds doesn't normally find new cases in prison, but something seemed very credible about this particular client referral. >> he turned to me and he said, you know, "my cell mate, who's out in th...

Two San Diego sheriff's deputies failed to recognize or respond to a jail inmate's medical emergency after he told them he was having trouble breathing and minutes later he collapsed and died in Central Jail, an independent review has found.

You encountered this case, hmm? >> yes. i was visiting another client who had been charged with murder. >> defense attorney john edmunds doesn't normally find new cases in prison, but something seemed very credible about this particular client referral. >> he turned to me and he said, you know, "my cell mate, who's out in the rec yard right now, doesn't belong here. there's something really odd about his case. would you look at it and see what you think? " >> so edmunds agreed to at least have a look at the record. a thick file of transcripts, hundreds of pages. and late one night, he was sitt...

It up with i tried to clean it, and i tried to use the fork to clean it i didn't realize when i wa digging in there, in the hole, that the fire thing, that it was going to pop like that >> you have to tamper with it for it to go off you've got to actually break a piece off for it to activate in that manner. and that's what they do is they manipulate it, break it. he has to try to do it it doesn't happen on accident. >> we are going to use our staff press sense and we'll have the inmate orderlies clean out the cells. there is a lot of water on the top tier right now we will start evacuating the...

Team floods into the door and orders all inmates to their bunks. >> on your stomachs facing the back fall. hands behind your back. there is no talking. bunks 41 to 48, get up and go out to the rec yard. single file. we search for contraband. drugs. weapons. anything that has been altered from its original form. anything that they're not supposed to have in their possession. >> the inmates are directed to sit down in the dorm's enclosed rec yard. the search team will hold them there as officers conduct a thorough search for contraband. first, a drug detection dog is brought in to sniff out narc...