Debra Milke released after decades on death row — Transcript

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1. 0:00we're going to continue to follow the
2. 0:03weather situation meantime a valley
3. 0:04mother convicted of having her
4. 0:06four-year-old son murdered is free
5. 0:08tonight Debra milke was convicted 24
6. 0:10years ago her conviction recently
7. 0:12overturned by the court of appeals and
8. 0:13ABC 15s Mary Ellen Resendez is live in
9. 0:15the newsroom with the big question of
10. 0:17whether milky will ever see the inside
11. 0:19of a prison cell again so Mary Ellen
12. 0:20what our attorneys saying about that you
13. 0:22know Katie and see if it all depends on
14. 0:23who you speak with County Attorney Bill
15. 0:25Montgomery plans to move forward with
16. 0:27the retrial of Debra milke for the
17. 0:29murder of her four-year-old son at the
18. 0:30end of this month but defense experts
19. 0:33say he's got an uphill battle especially
20. 0:36with a sketchy key witness to people
21. 0:39know what happened in that interrogation
22. 0:41room detectives saw that day and Debra
23. 0:45milke jurors in the retrial will have to
24. 0:47decide who to believe in a classic he
25. 0:49said she said case she is Debra milke
26. 0:52now free after 24 years in prison for
27. 0:55plotting the murder of her four-year-old
28. 0:56son he is a retired Phoenix police
29. 0:59detective Armando soldati who claims
30. 1:01milky confessed to him but never
31. 1:03recorded it so there's no evidence it
32. 1:06demonstrates how much weight the average
33. 1:10person who's serving on jury duty gives
34. 1:13to the statements of a police officer
35. 1:14but defense expert Russ richel soft says
36. 1:17a conviction in 2013 won't be so easy
37. 1:20prosecutors could face what attorneys
38. 1:22call the CSI effect jurors now demand
39. 1:25more physical evidence they expect it
40. 1:28because you know popular TV shows like
41. 1:30law and order and CSI have created those
42. 1:34expectations in the public plus in 1990
43. 1:36jurors weren't told about detective
44. 1:38Salty's history of misconduct according
45. 1:41to court papers it ranges from lying
46. 1:43under oath to rights violations jurors
47. 1:45in 2013 will be told which has attorneys
48. 1:48believing milky may never see a jail
49. 1:51cell again my hope would be that based
50. 1:53on that they would find her not guilty
51. 1:55now to hearing later this month a judge
52. 1:58will decide whether or not detective Sal
53. 2:00Dante's testimony will be allowed in the
54. 2:03retrial and even if it is so wealthy
55. 2:05himself may decide to plead the fifth
56. 2:07mainly because of at ninth circuit court
57. 2:09order into a civil rights investigation
58. 2:12surrounding him
59. 2:13and a lot riding on that one witness
60. 2:15there thanks Mary Ellen