Hearing set for Debra Milke retrial — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:01and happening today a key day in court
2. 0:03in what might be the next step in the
3. 0:05possible retrial of deborah milke a
4. 0:08former death row inmate who has now been
5. 0:11freed and what can we be seeing here
6. 0:14today is what this could hinge on is a
7. 0:16detective's testimony now milky was
8. 0:19released earlier this month she was uh
9. 0:23spent 33 years on death row she was
10. 0:25convicted in the murder of her
11. 0:26four-year-old son christopher back in
12. 0:281989. it was a detective who testified
13. 0:31against her at the time saying that she
14. 0:33confessed the crime although she denied
15. 0:35it and there was no tape recording of
16. 0:37that confession so the appeals court
17. 0:39ended up throwing out her conviction and
18. 0:40her sentence questionability of her
19. 0:42confession and there's also some
20. 0:44questions about misconduct surrounding
21. 0:46that detective now we could learn later
22. 0:48today whether that detective will invoke
23. 0:50his fifth amendment rights or whether he
24. 0:52will testify in the case now that could
25. 0:54be very key because the confession was a
26. 0:56very key piece of evidence back at the
27. 0:58time of this original trial without that
28. 1:00confession it's unsure what the
29. 1:02prosecution would do in going forward
30. 1:04the hearings are set here with several
31. 1:05motions to be considered at 1 30. live
32. 1:07here in downtown phoenix i'm angie
33. 1:09holdsworth abc 15 news