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Had done. >> i said, james, make it right. i got excited. i felt like once this come out, that ed would be free. >> gilliam said the testimony that i gave in these prior trials was false. that he made up this story to try to get better treatment for himself on his criminal sentence. >> gilliam would go on to state that the only thing elmore had ever said was that he didn't kill dorothy edwards. but diana's team also felt they needed to refute dorothy edwards' time of death which the medical examiner had placed on saturday night during the only hours elmore had no alibi. diana hired forensic ex...

The light ♪ >> when you trust god, no matter how bad it looks, it's not as bad as it seems because god is still in control. >> bishop spearman was pastor to edward lee elmore, the man accused of murdering dorothy edwards. >> i come to know edward in the late '70s. i pastored his home church. and his mother and i were best of friends. they didn't have a whole lot. >> one of 11 siblings, elmore's father was killed by a hit-and-run driver when elmore was 2. he grew up in dire poverty. >> he had a low i.q. i was a special ed teacher so i knew that he was slow.

Hit-and-run driver when elmore was 2. he grew up in dire poverty. >> he had a low i.q. i was a special ed teacher so i knew that he was slow. when i went to greenwood jail and i spoke with him, he really didn't know why he was there. and that bothered me. >> a hard worker, elmore got by on odd jobs like cleaning gutters and washing windows, including for dorothy edwards. when dorothy was murdered, age old fears and recrimination surfaced in the community. >> i know race plays a role when it comes to the justice system. here in greenwood, there are those who still have their agenda, but it's a ...

Democracy where now it just sort of orders whatever it's supposed to be on auto pilot. special ed laws are very important passed in 1995 because we had a history of locking away disabled children. now that law has morphed into using 25% of the budget for this country. there is no money for gifted children, no money for pre-education. these laws take a life of their own. >> and the lawmakers use no rule of judgment. >> in 2009 we had an $800 billion stimulus plan. and the point of the plan sold by president obama was to rebuild america's infrastructure. they came outwei with a five-ye report re...

Decade ago, he found a common good of bipartisan coalition that set out to restore nothing less than common stoens american government. author of a new book "the rule of nobody." explain what you see as the sort of central problem that has developed in american government? one of the things you've always said is that america is uniquely, perhaps because it's a society founded on law, has a reverence for law that has kind of gone into a kind of a warped place where laws are so detailed that nobody has any judgment. give a few examples. >> law's supposed to be a tool of democracy, instead, democ...