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[detective] Now, tell me the truth.
Isn't it true...

or is it true that you went in that garage
and saw what was going on?

Isn't that the truth?

No, I swear to God. No.

I didn't go in there.

[detective] I want you to...
tell me if you recognize...

each person in these photographs
and what that person did in this crime.

What part they played? Start right here.

[clears throat]

[detective] Is there anything else
you want to add to this

that you have not told us?

I didn't have anything to do with it
and I don't want it all to fall down on me

if they saying I did it.

I just want this thing to get over with
so I can live my life like a free man.

This crime rocked the 8th
and H Street neighborhood.

I've had many people tell me
that on a certain level, it still does.

[newscaster] The gruesome discovery
was made in a rain-soaked alley

in the 800 block of H Street Northeast,
an alley where junkies go to use drugs.

Inside a vacant dilapidated brick garage,
the partly nude body of a young woman.

[man] This is not usually what goes on
around this area. It was crazy.

Everybody was curious and furious.

[newscaster]
The victim has been identified

as 48-year-old Catherine Fuller,
of K Street Northeast.

She had been sexually assaulted
and beaten to death.

[man] The detectives looked
at this crime scene

and the horrible circumstances
of her death.

And I think they had this immediate idea
a group must've done this.

[man 2] It's the first time ever
in history that

that many people were charged
for one murder

of one person,
without it being a conspiracy.

You had to realize how the system worked
in D.C. back in the '80s and '90s.

Back then, we had so many people
getting killed in D.C.

We were number one murder capital
of the United States.

The homicide unit, it was 30 detectives
and we had one too many cases.

This was a very brutal crime.

I mean, I handle lots and lots of cases,

and this, one of the three gross crimes
that I've ever seen.

Once they opened that body,
you could see the damage they caused.

The pole that they put...

in her body all the way up.

This was too much.

It's kind of difficult to believe that...

a human being will inflict so much pain...

and... so much brutality
towards another human being.

[detective] This afternoon,
homicide detectives returned to the alley,

looking for evidence
and talking with people

who may have seen something.

[man] At approximately 4:30 p.m.
on the day of the murder...

...Mrs. Fuller left to go shopping.

That's the best we know from the testimony
of her husband and her son.

Mrs. Fuller was 48 years old.
She was small.

She was 99 pounds.

She wasn't much taller
than five feet tall.

She was a woman who took care of six kids
and a husband who was on disability.

The forensic evidence
is that she was beaten up

on the 9th Street side of the alley.

The alley runs parallel to 8th Street.

Some of her possessions were found
in that 9th Street portion of the alley.

And the perpetrator
who decided to assault her

dragged her body from that 9th Street side
of the alley into the garage.

And based on the autopsy,

some lengthy object had to be used
to commit the sodomy.

[man] Departments are judged
on their crime rates,

especially on their homicide crime rates.

If you have a high homicide rate,
you need to do something.

You need to bring it down.
And you need to show a high closure rate.

The pressure's on you
and you want to close it.

You want to close it quick.

About six o'clock, a lady walking
through the alley discovered the...

partially clothed body of an adult female.

On the night of the murder, somebody
left an anonymous tip for the cops

at I want to say,
2:30 in the morning,

saying that there was this group
called the 8th and H Crew

that hung out in that alley.

And three young men in that group
had bragged

about dragging women
into the alley to rape.

So they started hearing these rumors
about this gang stuff.

It kind of fit what we thought
was going on in the world at the time.

And they switched from gathering evidence
to suddenly,

"Oh, my God. This must be it."

So we're now suspect-based.

We're out to prove
that these are the guys who did it.

[newsman] You ever heard of a gang by
the name of the 8th and H Crew?

- No, I haven't.
- Never heard of 'em?

No, not a gang.

- [newsman] You live around here?
- Yes.

- Never heard of them?
- No.

Never heard of, never seen 'em either.

[man] 8th and H was a park
where buses

and everyone transferred
to go wherever they go.

And guys would go down
8th and H to see where guys,

"Hey, what you doin', man?
I'll meet you up at 8th and H"

because it was convenient
to meet up there.

And so dudes started referring
to different guys

as the 8th Street Crew.

We was basically like a family.

We all went to school together.
Different schools.

We all met up on the basketball courts.

We young, running around,
having fun, going to the go-go.

[man 1] You had the go-go bands.

[man 2] It's pretty much our own sound.
It's D.C. sound.

And we, like, represented
where we lived at.

And we may occasionally bump
a couple people

or something like that and...

And we started fighting.

Farthest someone would get
is hit in the head with a bat.

Or you know, black eye.

Some stitches.
But we wasn't doing no killing.

[woman] And whenever the go-go bands
were playing, they'd ask, you know,

like who's in the house or, you know,
is 8th and H Crew in the house?

It just meant
you lived in that neighborhood.

And as soon as I went out
into the community,

I became suspicious of the police story

because people in the community
said they weren't aware of a gang.

And police insisted there was a gang.

And a gang creates an image
in the community, you know, panic.

It makes people angrier.

It's a gang.
It's, you know, it becomes vicious.

[pounding]

[man] Open up the door.

[newscaster] Yesterday morning,
D.C. Police fanned out

to arrest six members
of the crew on charges of murder.

They just started snatching everybody
out of the neighborhood.

D.C was going through a purge.

They startled my family.

Came in about 6:30, seven o'clock.

Flying-- Helicopters flying over.

Lights, police lights all outside.
Came in.

Took me out.
Put me in the back of the police car.

They would jump out and grab all of us.
Put us in the car and try to take us down.

Just to question us.

I was like, "Oh, this some...

This some bullshit."

I mean, it was like,
they were just kicking down doors.

[man] Sunday, December the 9th, 1984,
they kicked my door in.

I had never been arrested.

I had finished high school
when I was 17 years old.

I was gonna go in the military.
I was going to college.

Police drove us to 8th and H
where they put is in the paddy wagon

to make it look like these the guys
that hang out there on 8th and H.

[newscaster] Police say these men
are members of a gang

which was known as the 8th and H Crew.

There are still other members of the gang
and police say there may be other arrests.

[Trainum] Their approach was kind of
like a shotgun approach.

You kind of round in
all the usual suspects,

start putting them in the box,
squeezing them and see what comes out.

[Sinclair] You get a 15-year-old
and they're telling him he going to jail,

or this gonna happen to him, or this gonna
happen to him, that's scary.

That's very scary.

You lie to say anything.

[woman] When they came to the house
that Sunday morning,

got him out of the bed,

they said they was gonna talk to him.

They didn't tell me he was under arrest
for murder or anything.

They did not request
for his parents or attorney.

Clifton didn't have nobody
to speak for him.

[detective] Do you have any objections
to this videotaping taking place?

No.

Have any promises been made to you
in return for your statement?

Excuse me.
Could you go by that one again?

Sure.

Have any promises been made to you...

Have I promised you anything
for talking to me today?

No, you haven't.

[Williams] Cliff came up very high
on the suggestibility scale.

His I.Q. was measured at 69.5.

[Mary] Clifton not retarded.

Special needs. Slow learner.

That was Clifton problem.
He was a slow learner.

Cliff didn't understand...
what he was being asked to sign.

- Do you remember signing the rights card?
- Yes.

- Did you read the card?
- Yes.

Back then, we were not videotaping
interrogations from start to finish.

We were only doing what we call,
the "recap video."

We're here today to talk to you
about the death of...

the lady in the alley at 8th and H Street.

Why don't you start, tell us everything
that you know about that.

I came home from school.

I came across H Street...

up Ninth Street...

to the alley... the end of the alley.

I seen Monk dragging the lady
into the alley.

He slammed the lady.

Chrissy hit her.

Burt... hit her.

He dragged her.

Snot Rag hit her and dragged her.

Derek stomped, Fella hit her.

Bobo hit her.

Levy was standing over top of her.

When you see these recap videos,
a lot of times people will say,

well, look, just the story flows,
how cold they are.

That it's being factual.

They've rehearsed this again
and again and again.

So all of the manipulation,
the lies about the evidence,

the promises of leniency,
that's all off camera.

Snot Rag said, "Stop, Derek."

So that's when Snot Rag and Burt
pulled her to the cut of the alley.

Levy...

stuck a pole in her.

Where was she when he stuck
the pole in her?

Right at the cut of the alley.

[Trainum] He was getting
critical facts wrong.

The crime scene analysis puts most
of the assault inside of the garage.

Yarborough is saying
that he's over on 9th Street

watching the attack occur
on the other end of the alley.

[detective] How far were you from exactly
where they had the lady down?

I can't recall it all from here.

Was it as long as a basketball court?

- It was just about that length.
- Full court?

Yeah. Just like that.

At first, they put it at a distance
of a basketball court.

They begin to challenge him
and he begins to shorten the distance.

[detective 2] And tell me,
what you could see at that distance?

There was...

Not, not quite that far.
Not quite that far.

- Well, what could you see?
- I could see what they was doing.

You watch the statement
and you hear these things.

And you think...

Oh, boy, these are-- He's giving details.
This is uncomfortable.

But then, look at the big picture.
Look at the other things that he says.

We know those other things aren't true.

Who is this?

Calvin.

[detective 1] All right.

And what did Calvin do?

He was fighting.

He stomped her.

Would you describe what you mean
by stomp her?

He was... [kicks chair]
kicking,

- putting his feet down on her.
- Okay.

[Williams] What he meant by a stomp,

is somebody stepping hard
down on somebody.

Kicking them but they're on the ground
and you're putting full weight on them.

Stomping somebody leaves
a distinct injury on the body.

Mrs. Fuller didn't have any
of those injuries. Not one.

Certainly not the ten
that Cliff described.

[Williams] Cliff also, at some point,
in his statement,

describes her blouse
being ripped off of her.

And he doesn't only describe it,
he gestures.

He goes like this. It's kind of like
Hulk Hogan in the '80s,

you know, pulling off, you know,
ripping open his shirt.

That didn't happen.

When Monk slammed her,
Chrissy hit him...

hit her first.

And Derek was beating her with a stick.

Monk ripped her blouse off her.

[Williams] She was wearing a sweater.

And the sweater was pushed up her chest,
not ripped off of her.

Part of what's interesting
about Cliff making that gesture about it,

having been ripped off like that,
is that Detective Sanchez Serrano

admits that in interrogating Cliff,

he mimicked ripping off his shirt
and feigned rage at Cliff

for not telling what he knew.

[detective] Now tell me the truth.

Isn't it true...

or is it true that you went in that garage
and saw what was going on?

Isn't that the truth?

No, I swear to God. No.
I didn't go in there.

- Isn't it true?
- No. I swear.

People with low I.Q.'s are particularly
likely to give false confessions.

Which means that they are likely to defer
to the opinion of another,

and to tell somebody what they think that
that other person wants to hear.

I never dreamed that I would be
the living proof of someone

that was being falsely accused
of something they didn't do.

[detective] You gotta tell me, brother.
We want to hear it all.

Tell us exactly what--

- This shit give me nightmares.
- Okay. Well...

[Willliams] The two most central witnesses
for the government

were Harry Bennett and Calvin Alston,

who are young, vulnerable teenagers.

They just went and got the lady
and took her back there.

Okay. But what do you mean?
To take her back there or...

In other words,
they trying to say, go rob the lady.

- Go rob the lady?
- Yeah.

Okay. Who was in the alley?

And we'll go to a book this time, okay?

So you can identify the people for us.

Before we came
into this interview room today

you had a conversation with me
in the room just beside this one.

- Correct?
- Right.

- And did we draw a diagram at that time?
- Yes, sir.

[Alston] They showed me
the piece of paper.

It had names.

A lot of scribble on the paper.

But it had charts, pies drew on the paper.

They would tell me I was gonna
either take a piece of the pie...

A slice of the pie, or take the whole pie
and go down by myself.

At first, I thought they was joking.
To be honest, I thought they was joking.

The more I explained,
they didn't want to hear.

When I told them I was at work,

they didn't want to hear that.

They said, "No, he was with Cliff",
that I was in the alley.

I was scared.

And I took a piece of the pie.

Now, you stated to me before...

that in the garage...

was Levy, Monk.

Now, who are these other people
standing out here?

- Would you tell me who was out there?
- Sure.

What they were doing?
Speak up, sir, please.

Burt was standing there.
Kelvin was standing out there.

Chrissy, Darryl, Ernest, Cliff...

Snot Rag and the Monk.

And me.

[detective] Do you feel better now
that you've told us this on tape?

- [Alston] Yeah, I feel much better.
- [detective] Why?

Because I don't want--
I didn't have nothing to do with it.

I don't want it all to fall down on me
if they saying I did it.

I just want the thing to get over with
so I can live my life like a free man.

[Williams] These teenagers make
a shortsighted decision

to lie and say that they are witnesses
to something they didn't actually see.

But we didn't have the full facts

that would've helped tell
a different account of this crime

and would've helped show
that Cliff's statement...

and the statement of Alston
and the statement of Bennett...

those statements weren't true.

[Trainum] I had begun a project

where we were going back
and reviewing old homicide cases

and trying to get information
into searchable databases.

I was going through old files
that involved unusual cases,

sexual assaults, things like that.

And that's when I stumbled across
the Catherine Fuller case.

And as I was going through it,

I found this envelope
in the very, very back part,

and on the outside it said "suspects".

I opened up the envelope
and was going through it.

And I had pictures of the people
who had been arrested.

And then I came across this one picture.

And I recognized him as a guy
named James McMillan.

And I thought, what the hell is
his picture doing in with this group here?

'Cause I knew McMillan.

I knew him
because I had participated in his arrest

only a few years before that,
actually back in 1992.

[Williams] James McMillan commits,
essentially, the exact same murder

as what happened to Catherine Fuller.

He grabs a woman off the street,
he drags her through an alley.

He beats her up. He sexually assaults her.
He sodomizes her.

Mrs. Fuller was found naked
from the waist down

with her sweater bunched up
around her breasts.

McMillan's 1992 victim is found naked
from the waist down with her top,

I believe it was also a sweater,
bunched up around her breasts.

[Trainum] If Catherine Fuller's case
was open right now,

McMillan would be my number one suspect.

This guy has a vicious history.

McMillan, he has been institutionalized
most of his life. Since, like, age 13.

Any time he was involved in anything,
he brutally beat women.

He was just out for a short while
when this occurred.

[Trainum] He lived in that area.

In fact, he lived in a house
that backed up to the alley

where Catherine Fuller was found.

It turns out that he was robbing women
in that area.

And when he robbed them,
he would walk up to 'em

and just pound the ever loving hell
out of 'em.

Just viciously, you know, beat them.

[Williams] On the day of the murder,
a street vendor saw McMillan in the alley

acting suspiciously,

hiding something under his coat,
and remember,

the object used to sexually assault
Mrs. Fuller has never been found.

The police showed the street vendor
the photograph book of young men

in the neighborhood.

And he identified McMillan
and another guy.

But he didn't know their names.

He had just identified them
based on their face.

The police knew their names.

By the time of defendant's trial,

McMillan was in jail
for having robbed and assaulted...

two other middle-aged women
in that neighborhood.

Defendants were on trial
for an alleged robbery and assault

that spun out of control into this murder

of a middle-aged woman
in this neighborhood.

I mean, it's the most important evidence
you can imagine.

And the defendants didn't know about it.

[newscaster] The victim, Catherine Fuller,
48 years old, mother of six.

The defendants, nine young men,
a 17-year-old girl,

members of the 8th and H Crew.

In December,
several suspects were rounded up.

Today, they were together again
for the start of their trial.

Anyone convicted will end up serving
at least the prime of their adulthood,

the next 20 years, in prison.

[Mary] At the trial, I was still thinking
that he's coming home.

Still thinking that he's coming home.

[Turner] There was not a doubt
of uncertainty in my mind.

When you're innocent, you know that,
well, they got facts,

then it's gonna prove that I'm not guilty.

That's what I was looking forward to.

Let's get to court.

Let's get this done so I can hurry up
and get on with my life.

Sparks flew at the trial today
of ten members

of the 8th and H Crew gang.

News Seven's Gary Reals is at
the trial now with a live report. Gary.

This is the most publicized case
in the history of Washington D.C.

The Washington Post did stories about it.
The Nightly News did stories about it.

There were nine policemen who spent...

And they were reporting stuff
that they heard from the prosecution.

[newsman] Assistant U.S. Attorney
Jerry Goren beckoned the jurors

to relive what happened
in that alley that night.

He said it was a different world
than the jurors might know.

A world where loyalty to comrades
is so much greater than to community.

[Turner] The United States Attorney
himself, Jerry Goren,

he was putting on a smoke and mirrors
for the public.

[newsman] Jerry Goren told the jury
it all began with a song in a park.

A song about getting paid,

and ended in a brutal, senseless murder.

I guess they were listening to the music
and just kinda hanging out.

And I can remember the song
just as if it was yesterday.

Talking about money, money,
I gotta have some money.

[Turner] "A dollar bill is a friend
of mine, I need some money."

That just happened to be the top
go-go rap song of that year.

[Williams] The prosecution made it
sound like singing that song,

that was the motivation
for committing the crime.

They thought that...

they just wanted to rob somebody.

That's as close of a theory
as you ever get from the prosecution.

[Turner] Back in 1984,
we're talking about October the 1st, 1984.

It was the first of the month.

Everyone in this entire neighborhood
is doing their shopping

on the first of the month.

You get your deals.
You're getting your sales.

People are cashing checks constantly.

If there's 20 to 30 people
back here in the alley

behind 8th and H
between four and six o'clock, rush hour,

I'm sure it would sound
almost like a football game

in this little close proximity.

[Williams] At trial, there's no members
of the community

who say that they saw this rowdy group
that crosses a street

and then assaults a woman in the alley.

It's only these young,
vulnerable teenagers who...

who are giving statements.

[newsman] Fourteen-year-old
Maurice Thomas was an eyewitness

to the murder of Catherine Fuller
last year.

Two weeks ago,
he testified for the government.

Maurice Thomas. He testified against
several of the defendants in the case.

He claimed to be in the alley
across from the alley

where Miss Fuller was assaulted.

[Gaines] These are very vulnerable
young people.

One, for their age,
and two, because of their circumstances.

[Williams] When people responded
to a subpoena

to come down and talk with detectives,

they would receive a financial incentive
for coming in.

I believe the testimony in our case
was $35 each time they came down.

That's not an insignificant
amount of money

to a teenager in an impoverished area
of Northeast D.C. in the 1980s.

[Turner] People knew that this
was a hustle.

They found out that the way to get money
was to just go down there,

act like you knew something
about the 8th and H Street case,

they gonna pay you.

People found out fast.
They gonna pay you.

They paid Maurice.
That was the running rumor.

Anybody who took Maurice down there
because he was a juvenile,

so someone had to take him down there.

So then, it became a competition thing
to take Maurice down there

'cause everybody know
they could pick up a extra $30

each time you take Maurice down there.

Before trial, when I was locked up,
the first couple of months, I was raped.

So, they knew this.

[Turner] I wanted out.

And I actually said
what they wanted me to say.

That everything that they said
that happened in that alley...

they had me say that
in front of the court.

I had to say that in front of the court
if I wanted a lesser sentence.

[newscaster] It was the moment
that highlighted the government's case.

Twenty-year-old Calvin Alston
squatted in front of the jury box

with his two hands clenched
as if holding a pipe,

he reenacted how, he says,

Levy Rouse assaulted Catherine Fuller
with a foot long pipe.

Alston facing 20 years to life

for his guilty plea
to second-degree murder,

admitted he was the one who first
targeted Catherine Fuller for robbery,

getting paid, as he put it.

For 11 months, I went over the testimony
with the prosecution team

and some of the witnesses in the case.

And they lined us up, they questioned us,

they deleted this, added this,
scratched this out,

until they were satisfied with going forth
with the testimony that they wanted.

[newscaster] By pleading guilty
to second-degree murder,

Calvin Alston faces the prospect
of 15 years to life in prison

instead of the possibility
of 35 years to life if convicted at trial.

It was gut wrenching.

[newscaster] He testified
that Charles Turner

suddenly shoved her into an alley.

That Levy Rouse hit her over the head
with a two by four.

Alston said he then walked up
and punched Mrs. Fuller and kicked her.

He said Monk Harris kicked her,
Christopher Turner kicked her,

Kelvin Smith kicked her,
Levy Rouse kicked her

and Charles Turner kicked her.

I told him, "If you had anything
to do with it, tell the truth about it."

They'll be lighter on you.
But he's told me up to the last minute...

I talked to him yesterday evening.
He say he didn't know anything about it.

[Turner] I knew that I have never killed
no one in my life.

And I knew that they didn't kill
no one in their life.

But no matter what we said,
or what was said,

we was gonna go down for their case.

Tomorrow,
this case is expected to shift gears.

The prosecution is likely to rest
and the defense will begin.

Some of the ten defendants say
they have alibis.

It is unknown what the others will do.

[Williams] If you're defending
seven people

who are on trial for their lives
against a brutal attack,

you can't just be pointing at some,
you know, phantom in the air.

You gotta have something concrete.

But because the prosecution
withheld the evidence

tying McMillan to our crime scene,

the defense was limited to what,
I think of as a,

"Not me, maybe them, defense."

[newsman] Defense attorneys clamored
to cut themselves away from Rouse

who has been named by four
different eyewitnesses as the one

who so brutally assaulted
Catherine Fuller last year.

We don't want to have
any involvement with him.

STEVEN WEBB'S ATTORNEY

We feel the evidence
is not overwhelming against Steven Webb.

From my view of the jurors
when they were told that,

there was some concern.

And I feel that that concern
is gonna overflow

and may positively or negatively affect
the outcome of the jury's verdict.

And I'm opposed to it.

I'm adamantly opposed to it
at this late stage in the proceedings.

I really didn't like my lawyer

because everything that came out
of her mouth at the time was,

"Take a deal".

I told her that I'm not taking a deal
to a murder that I didn't commit.

And man, it was a frenzy.

All the lawyers was just like...
sharks in the water.

Instead of the lawyers getting together
and try to figure out what was going on.

It was more like, "I'm defending--
This is my client and that's it.

And we don't care
what they say about your client."

The admission of one of the confessions,
of one of the co-defendants

which tended to corroborate
the government witnesses.

There are numerous issues...

Because they didn't have
any kind of unifying defense,

that's the best they could do.

[newscaster] The seven women
and five men of the jury

were taken back to their hotel late today

for the rest of the weekend.

After six days of deliberations,
they still have not returned

any of the 40 verdicts
they must reach in the case.

Well, I know, in my case,
I kind of really wanted to make sure

that some of those kids didn't have
to spend years and years in prison

if they were innocent.

And I think
we were really looking for that.

But as jury members, you can only really
go by the evidence that's presented.

You know, you have no idea
to thinking that there were

some other alternative views
as to what happened.

[newscaster] There weren't any smiles
inside the well of the court

as the verdicts were announced.

Behind the bulletproof shield, there were
many stares and an occasional flinch.

Timothy "Snot Rag" Catlett. Guilty.

Levy Rouse, guilty.

Kelvin "Hollywood" Smith, guilty.

Charles "Fella" Turner, guilty.

Steven Webb, guilty.

Twenty-six-year-old Russell Overton,
known as "Bobo", guilty.

And 17-year-old
Clifton Yarborough, guilty.

Yarborough's relatives
left the courthouse in tears.

Clifton confessed on videotape
the day of his arrest.

But still spurned a handsome
government offer several months ago

to plead guilty and probably end up
with a light sentence.

I just don't understand it.

I just don't understand it.

How it go so far.

I remember,
that even after the sentencing,

that Clifton did not understand
that he could not go home.

He thought it was all over now
and he was free to go.

He just didn't get it.

I was mad because I know
they had nothing to do with it.

I knew it in my heart.

It's not their character.

No.

[newscaster] Also convicted of murder
was 19-year-old Christopher Turner.

As the guilty verdicts were announced,

Christopher Turner
slumped in his chair and cried.

They sold the public on this theory,
the witch hunt, I would call it,

that the government set out on,

got the better of them
and their judgments.

I know that I couldn't do...
27 years, 28 years,

after, you know...
I know I couldn't do it, you know.

[man] What are you going to do?

Appeal, which basically
is where all my faith is in.

[Turner] Almost 26 years in prison.

I was fortunate enough to convince
the parole board to let me out.

This is the block that I grew up on

right directly around the corner
from Mrs. Fuller's house.

I knew everyone on this block
my entire life.

My grandmother, she bought this house,
I think, in 1939 for 12,000.

All the way on the backside, my bedroom.

My father was born in this house.
My brothers and sisters.

Now, looking back I can only imagine
what some of the things

that they had to go through
and put up with at that time.

[Turner] Police shattered
this neighborhood

because it divided so many friends,
it divided family members.

It was just...

It was just the whole neighborhood
just changed.

It crushed my family, literally.
I mean, my grandmother

pretty much gave up her fight for cancer
when it happened.

And eventually,
my family lost the house. So, uh...

[Carlos] It was just like,
no more family.

I just be glad when it's over with,

the truth come out,
all the fellas get released.

It took a long time and a lot
of investigation by a lot of people

to put together all the evidence
that we have now.

[man] ...go live in three to five minutes.
There's a line establishing right here.

If you want to try to get in for the
second case, you can stay in this line.

Again, folks,
the three to five-minute line

is now being established
for the first case.

There's no more general seating
for the first case.

With me being out here
six years before those guys, um...

Already it's been six years.

Doesn't seem like
I've been home six years.

And the fact they still in and still
serving time, I know it weighs on 'em.

[Williams] This is it.
As high as you can go.

I am hopeful.

I can't say that I think
it's overwhelmingly likely.

I also don't think that, you know,
our backs are against the wall either.

I'm hopeful.

[Gaines] I'm like, why am I so emotional?
You...

Yeah. I'll see you once you get in.

- Okay.
- [woman] Are you going inside?

- Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah.

- Yeah. We're going in.
- [Gaines] How do we get in?

- [woman] Are you nervous?
- No. Never.

[man] Mr. Williams.

Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice,
and may it please the court.

In Brady v. Maryland, this court
established the now familiar principle

that the prosecution must disclose
to the defense

all favorable and material information.

This case involves a clear violation
of that principle.

Here, the prosecution
suppressed information

that a serial assaulter of women

had been seen acting suspiciously
at the crime scene before police arrived.

The question for this court

is whether
there is a reasonable probability

that the jury would have reached
a different verdict

if it had had turned over
the McMillan evidence to the court.

[Gaines] I've had
so many hopes for them.

They just haven't turned out.

There's just a part of me
that's just afraid to hope.

And yet, in spite of that,
I know that I do hope.

I hope they see the case for what it...

- Really is.
- Really is.

Really was.

[man 1] All the lies they've been told
and everything.

[man 2] We want them held accountable
for what's going on.

Clifton was about 15
when he took this picture.

This is the way he looked
when he got locked up.

That little baby face.

[man] He still got that same smile.
Do you ever notice?

Cliff, that's one thing
he loved to do is dress.

He outdress me.
He liked to impress the girls.

That's what he liked to do.

I think Clifton got over everything.
All he want to do is come home.

That's all he want.

He really want to come
before something happen to his mother.

That's all he want.

[woman] This was kind of
guaranteed to be bad

for the defendants in the sense
that without any alternative theory

it was a circular firing squad.

And it was, you know, you should believe
the guy who doesn't incriminate me.

But of course, you should believe him
as to everybody else.

All ten of these people saying this,

it created the worst of all
possible worlds for the defendants.

Why is it, that in the end,

the government's witnesses
were two people who were charged

and were making a deal
with the government,

and who had reasons
to make a deal with the government,

and a 14-year-old boy?

The objective crime scene evidence,

in addition
to the alternative perpetrator theory,

would have presented an overwhelmingly
powerful case of innocence.

It certainly would've been enough
to be a reasonable probability

of the jury finding reasonable doubt.