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Curtis Flowers, tried six times for the same crime, will receive Mississippi's maximum compensation for wrongful imprisonment. Here's how much it is.
Let's face it. the victim was a black child. but at least those jurors are much more likely to be suspicious that the police are not always telling the truth. so i think that's quite important to have a jury that is at least somewhat skeptical. >> but clive and rob were about to face the challenge of refuting scientific reports that at the first trial had condemned sabrina to death.
I had no doubt that things was going to go in our favor. >> in the second trial, i knew that they were going to use the same things that they used in the first trial. and i just was happy that i had some attorneys that were going to tell, you know, my side of the story for a change. >> with sabrina's second trial approaching, clive knew he'd need help pleading her case to a mississippi jury. so he enlisted the help of local lawyer rob mcduff. >> at the first trial, i think the jury there very much had a one-dimensional picture of sabrina, which is of a mother who was careless, who didn't care ...
>> clive and rob knew they needed to humanize sabrina and explain what happened that night, including sabrina's incriminating statements to the police. >> when you look at the case against stream, what you're looking at is a bunch of statements none of which mean a lot in isolation, but put together made her look bad. then you've got the injuries to the child, which needed some explanation. but there's not much more than that. it's not like there's dna everywhere, they're videos everywhere, there's messes of physical evidence. >> at least some policemen will start questioning in a way that can...