Debra Milke freed after 24 years behind bars — Transcript

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1. 0:01We're going to continue to uh Follow the
2. 0:03weather situation meantime a Valley
3. 0:04mother convicted of having her
4. 0:05four-year-old son murdered is free
5. 0:08tonight debarah milkey was convicted 24
6. 0:10years ago her conviction recently
7. 0:12overturned by the court of appeals and
8. 0:13ABC 15's Mary Ellen rendes is live in
9. 0:16the newsroom with the big question of
10. 0:17whether milky will ever see the inside
11. 0:18of a prison Cell again So Mary Ellen
12. 0:20What our attorney saying about that you
13. 0:22know Katie and Steve it all depends on
14. 0:23Who you speak with County attorney Bill
15. 0:25montgomy plans to move forward with the
16. 0:27retrial of debor milkey for the Murder
17. 0:29of her four yold son at the end of this
18. 0:31month but defense experts say he's got
19. 0:34an Uphill Battle especially with a
20. 0:36sketchy key
21. 0:38witness two people know what happened in
22. 0:40that interrogation room Detective
23. 0:42saldate and debor milky jurers in the
24. 0:46rrial will have to decide Who to believe
25. 0:47in a classic he said she said case She
26. 0:51is debor milky now free after 24 Years
27. 0:54In Prison for plotting the Murder of her
28. 0:56four-year-old son He is a retired
29. 0:58Phoenix police Detective ando salalti
30. 1:01Who claims milky confessed to him but
31. 1:03never recorded it so there's no evidence
32. 1:06it
33. 1:06demonstrates How much weight uh the
34. 1:10average person Who's serving on jury
35. 1:12duty gives to the statements of a police
36. 1:14officer but defense expert russ
37. 1:16richelsof says a conviction in 2013
38. 1:19won't be so easy prosecutors could face
39. 1:21what attorneys call The CSI effect
40. 1:24jurors now demand more physical evidence
41. 1:27they expect it because you know popular
42. 1:29TV Shows like Law And Order and CSI Um
43. 1:33have created those expectations in the
44. 1:35public plus in 1990 jurors weren't told
45. 1:37about Detective salty's History of
46. 1:39misconduct according to Court papers it
47. 1:42Ranges from lying under oath to Rights
48. 1:44violations jurors in 2013 will be told
49. 1:47Which has attorneys believing milky May
50. 1:50never see a jail Cell again my hope
51. 1:52would be that based on that they would
52. 1:53find her not Guilty now a hearing later
53. 1:57this month The Judge will decide whether
54. 1:59or not Detective sldalti's testimony
55. 2:01will be allowed in the retrial and even
56. 2:04if it is sldalty himself May decide to
57. 2:07pleed the fifth mainly because of a
58. 2:09ninth circuit court order into a Civil
59. 2:11Rights Investigation Surrounding him not
60. 2:14rting on that one witness there Thanks
61. 2:15Mary Ellen