Why Former Federal Prosecutor Says He Believes Scott Peterson Deserves A New Trial — Transcript

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1. 0:00Mark gsy is the director of the Ohio
2. 0:02Innocence Project at the University of
3. 0:04Cincinnati and author of blind Injustice
4. 0:08a former prosecutor exposes the
5. 0:10psychology and politics of wrongful
6. 0:13convictions now Mark believes that Scott
7. 0:17had an unfair trial now mark thank you
8. 0:19for being here I really appreciate it
9. 0:21now you're not saying that you believe
10. 0:24Scott Peterson is innocent you're saying
11. 0:27you believe that he deserves a fair
12. 0:28trial correct yeah and I think that if
13. 0:31you look at the current New Evidence
14. 0:34that's been brought to light and the
15. 0:35advances in science and looking at the
16. 0:37science the forensics that were
17. 0:38presented back at his original trial and
18. 0:40what we know about it now it's a totally
19. 0:42different ball game and you know some of
20. 0:44the things that Nancy Grace was saying
21. 0:46just now on this show is wrong and Nancy
22. 0:49I I'd ask you and would you say under
23. 0:51oath that you've actually read the
24. 0:53habius petition in the in the California
25. 0:54Supreme Court and you've studied the
26. 0:57advances in science and all the all the
27. 0:59things that are reflecting back on the
28. 1:00original trial and showing the things
29. 1:01that were unreliable and were wrong in
30. 1:03the original trial cuz I think you
31. 1:04haven't Nancy did you hear the question
32. 1:08I heard the statement I didn't realize
33. 1:09it was the question I thought he was
34. 1:10continuing to
35. 1:12pontificate um actually
36. 1:14sir I am a crime victim myself and I
37. 1:18have devoted my life to not only
38. 1:20Prosecuting and representing Crime
39. 1:22Victims but to always seeking the truth
40. 1:25and as a matter of fact yes I have read
41. 1:28the legal documents in this case and
42. 1:30I've spoken in depth with Janie who I
43. 1:34respect a lot and she has many points
44. 1:37that I think are valid to be argued but
45. 1:40do I believe he deserves a new trial no
46. 1:44I do not okay well then let me ask you
47. 1:45this if you've read the most recent
48. 1:47documents the state's expert at trial
49. 1:49did the fetal analysis and said that the
50. 1:52baby Connor died on December 24th which
51. 1:54fits the state's Theory and used a
52. 1:57formula and the theory of this Dr jente
53. 1:59this famous forensic pathologist in this
54. 2:01field well now Dr jente has chimed in
55. 2:04and said this person actually made huge
56. 2:06mistakes number one use the wrong
57. 2:08formula there's different formulas you
58. 2:10use depending on what information you
59. 2:11have like the last period of the mother
60. 2:13or different sonograms and use the wrong
61. 2:15bones and when you actually and this is
62. 2:17he's the expert he's the one that
63. 2:19developed these theories and he said
64. 2:20this expert that the state called at
65. 2:22trial misapplied my theories if you
66. 2:24apply the correct Theory Connor lived
67. 2:26until January 4th until January 3rd or
68. 2:294th
69. 2:30and let me go back to another point you
70. 2:31brought up with Lacy the reason why the
71. 2:33burglars don't want to talk when Lacy
72. 2:36confronted them is because they said he
73. 2:38said I'll take the fifth because they
74. 2:40don't want to be implicated in this if
75. 2:41somebody abducted Lacy because Lacy
76. 2:43confronted them and the ba and Lacy and
77. 2:45the baby lived a little bit longer by
78. 2:47that time they knew exactly where to
79. 2:49jump the body the dogs sent stuff the
80. 2:51dogs they used had failed 2third of
81. 2:53their qualification test more often than
82. 2:55they passed one of the dogs was wrong
83. 2:5775% of the time that's right this is
84. 2:59unreliable this is junk science along
85. 3:02with the title stuff and the baby
86. 3:04science that was used we now look at
87. 3:06this through the lens of 2018 advances
88. 3:08and we see a completely different story