steps with an unforgiving hand. and eye for an eye. in iraq on al-jazeera. and i'm jane afton and other top stories on al-jazeera a saudi in u.a.e. coalition has begun a military operation to retake the port city of the data from the three rebels the united arab emirates said given the choose day to leave un envoy to yemen had been negotiating to prevent fighting the data is the main entry point for food and medical aid for millions of yemenis the leaders of north korea and the u.s. have accepted invitations to visit each other's countries that's according to the north korean state news agency kim jong un and met for the first time in singapore on tuesday they signed an agreement aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula

and a surprise move trump promised to stop joint u.s. military drills with south korea when he has more from the south korean capital seoul there was a statement released by the south korean defense ministry saying that they were still basically decipher the words from donald trump to see what exactly they meant and there was also a statement released by the military forces the u.s. forces based here in south korea saying that they had received no information no order that these military exercises were going to be canceled or suspended in the next round of those exercises is coming up in august the u.s. federal judges approved the merger of eighty and t. and time warner is create one of the world's largest media companies the judge said the government failed to prove the eighty five billion dollars deal would harm competition and raise prices for consumers john hendren has more now from washington d.c. . a u.s.

judges ruled that. time warner can merge despite the objections of the u.s. department of justice that is an eighty five billion dollars merger one of the largest in recent history it is rare that the department of justice opposes a merger on antitrust grounds and rarer still that they lose a case like that this is a case in which president donald trump made his opinion clear he said this merger will not go through in my administration he particularly objected to the fact that time warner owns c.n.n. and there was even talk that c.n.n. would have to be spun off an order for the merger to go through this was the vertical integration of two companies in other words they didn't do the same thing one of them distributed content the other one provided that content and the d.o.j. is more likely to disapprove when two companies do the same thing but this was a response to amazon and netflix who were content distributors who then became content providers and in time warner said they had to do this in order to compete

the judge agreed and the federal government can now appeal that decision but the judge said you should not ask for us to block the merger until that happens that's because it would do undue harm to those companies if this doesn't happen by june twenty first then either side can walk away under the agreement and he would have to pay a five hundred million dollars fine iraqi shia cleric mactire has formed a coalition of the pro. to form the biggest political group in parliament the man decide his party won the most seats in last month's election and. second but they don't have the majority to form a government. the british government has reached a compromise that would allow parliament to have some say in the final deal to leave the european union prime minister to resign may had argued that this would weaken a negotiating hand with the e.u.

macedonia has agreed to change its name to resolve a decades old dispute with greece its new name is the republic of northern macedonia. international criminal court has ordered the release of john pearce former vice president of democratic republic of congo he was acquitted of war crimes last week judges said he couldn't be held responsible for trustees committed by his troops in central african republic between two thousand and two and two thousand and three countdown to the football world cup which kicks off on thursday in russia right now there in moscow members of congress are gathering to vote on who will host the event twenty twenty six that's live pictures coming from there. this is to me.

this is joe berlinger calling i'm the director of that documentary about the manning case and i know you had told my team not to call anymore i just wanted to introduce myself and just to tell you a little bit about what we're hoping to said oh. yeah. can i just say one thing which is we're not here to talk about the guilt or innocence of mr manning we're doing on a larger show about the impact of the f.b.i. decision tomb you know you know a whole bunch of cases. i've heard him but i'm just trying to see him and anything i say might persuade you otherwise but. now ok i appreciate your time sorry for sorry for disturbing.

stories and. you know sometimes you can't win. world war two sticks and see things through the american criminal justice system in forces our laws and keeps watch over us that person. who is watching the system. i'm joe berlinger and i've used my camera for twenty years to knock down doors and pursue the truth in the system now we're going inside the american criminal justice system they come in from the charge from law enforcement to elected officials the court system to corrections to find out if justice is being served. in this episode of the system will be looking into an f.b.i. scandal of manipulated forensic evidence that may have led to thousands of wrongful convictions over the past three decades. my crew and i have been following two of these cases in mississippi and baltimore let me comment on the charges against individuals whose fates were directly impacted by f.b.i. expert testimony about forensic evidence analyzed by the f.b.i.

crime lab fred whitehurst was the f.b.i. agent who blew the whistle on the bureau's famed crime lab. i walked into alice's wonderland as a scientist who wasn't any science this thing about hair analysis not science it's a subjective nightmare and i wrote two hundred thirty seven letters over a period of five years to these pictures you know there were issues of reports being written without my knowledge or authorization equipment sturdy testimonies being given that's way beyond people's expertise on best getting this country's top forensic laboratory the justice department inspector general reportedly has discovered sloppy procedures and examples of carelessly handled evidence we found that results of analysis were skewed in favor of the prosecution. how big do you think the fallout from this report could be a very big this is a royal pain in the neck and federal prosecutors and judges all over the country

are going to have to deal now with motions by pending defendants and already convicted defendants about the scientific evidence in their cases this is not a good thing for the f.b.i. . prosecutors were notified about these findings but few revisited their cases for more than a decade many defendants were left in the dark now letters have started reaching defense attorneys across the country notifying them that the forensic testimony used to convict their clients was flawed. thousands of convictions have been called into question including twenty seven death row cases. the case of willie jerome manning is one of them manning was sentenced to death in one thousand nine hundred two for the murder of two college students in starkville mississippi. hair found in the victim's car was analyzed by the f.b.i. crime lab their evidence had a significant impact on the case because that was the only physical evidence that

put willie manning in that car mr manning's execution was set for may seventh we received these letters from the f.b.i. calling into question forensic testing about hair and ballistics we received the first letter about hair on may second the second letter on hair on may fourth we received the last letter less than twelve hours away from the scheduled execution and asked the court to reopen the case and it was at that point that the court finally stayed the execution. were headed to starkville mississippi to meet marshawn manning is willie's younger brother the prison would not allow me to interview willie in person so i schedule a phone call with willie at marshlands house. shawn. as i go on. and you were with him those few hours right before i was that live.

you know those final hours did you think it was going to go through the execution or did you. excuse me can go through the house lincoln. got three of them and all crimes and not talking to. the line and i'll do that he's a look at me on his face in the mirror you need to listen to me he was in no man's even when we don't do that. it's joe berlinger the director on a how are you and shell out and sean was a big row no. when you heard about you know the f.b.i. sending out letters that there was bad testimony about the forensics in your case

and a whole bunch of other cases how did you react to that ah that was that with the hughes and the release next week i mean it. i don't know i mean you know the case with if it happened you know but leave that to fate. you know if they have an innocent person incarcerated willie manning still sits on death row and d.n.a. testing of the hair sample used to convict him could set him free but it also could confirm his guilt. there are thousands of cases like this that were mishandled by the f.b.i. crime lab. in baltimore we found another one we're heading there now to meet john huffington who five weeks ago was released after spending thirty two years in prison. in one thousand nine hundred one he was found guilty of the brutal double murder of diana becker whose body was found at her mobile home and her boyfriend joe hudson whose body was discovered seven miles away and here again the f.b.i.'s

crime lab where testimony was used as the main evidence to convict him. in this case d.n.a. was finally tested of a hair that was alleged to john huffington found in the bed of the murder victim diana bakker that was the key evidence of the prosecution brought up there was a ninety nine point nine eight percent likelihood that the hairs found at the scene were hits now we know it's a zero percent chance likelihood because the d.n.a. testing shows that these were not his hearers. the judge found in his order that's without the hair evidence being heard by the jury there's a substantial likelihood the jury would record it and. i'm going to visit john huffington where he's been living since he got out of prison.

and you know i don't think it's a yes. or no. this is the frenzy as you well know how every bit of here for five weeks i came straight from prison i was eighteen when i went in i came out it was fifty. that would been thirty two years in that two months. currently have a double room but i've been writing. almost as hard for me to take the form of ok i got hold of my attorney michael offer who tends to work early and he was very excited on the phone and when you say. he does hard money he's like john oh yeah and he's like well we've got these. like it's not your hair and that was like ok you know churches came out.

this is my room it is home for now i don't. spend a lot of time here like tree new blue sky above my fresh air in my face but you know again this is not a six by nine cell that i'm sure with another man this is you know one hundred ten percent but since it's only been five weeks when you put your head down do you think of yourself still being imprisoned well one thing i used to do is like when i was in a cell that i didn't want to be in play and then she moved to where i wanted to be you know i always name a bit but i would never put back like that sleep right on top of it and there is that in my file we share the subconscious i guess i just i don't feel that spread back so i have made myself i'm not that comfortable yet so i just sit on top.

i guess it's just not really it. is out on bond after a judge vacated his sentence but could soon find himself back in prison because of other evidence in this case. essentially we are in pretrial now because the state has announced its intention to attempt to retry john huffington for these crimes for which he's already served thirty two years. it's incredible that this cannot reach finale after thirty two years and after the way that false evidence was presented to the jury in this case it's just one is you just don't believe it's happened you know you don't believe it happened you don't believe it's still happening and you know it's just you truly believe that this is going to get fixed this is a mistake it's going to come it's going to come around it's going to get fixed. do you think to mr guilty you know that's the thing about the the criminal justice system is that unfortunately trials are often not about

seeking the truth but rather who presents the best narrative so far we've only heard one side of these stories we still need to hear from the families of the victims that huffington and manning were convicted of murdering. willie manning's execution was stayed after the f.b.i. emitted that the hair and ballistics testimony used to convict him for the double murder of tiffany miller and john stack was scientifically invalid. manning still sits on death row is one of thousands of cases reopened since former f.b.i. agent fred whitehurst blew the whistle on f.b.i. crime lab procedures he should be honest and they're trying to tell you look at this without any bias and then they tell you what they think you can find you had better make sure that this thing came out of particularly the f.b.i. so human enterprise what do you mean by that human enterprise and human enterprise fails. the problem that the bureau has got is if they fail. and you find out about

it. the world finds out about it it's a big big deal because they hold themselves out above that we're not human we're almost god like. because the system is a human enterprise and everyone involved has their own claim to the truth we have somebody who has. for two decades claimed his innocence and to be balanced and fair i want to hear the other side so we've come to madison this is simply to meet pam cole she's the mother of tiffany miller tiffany was one of the victims that manning is accused of murdering. your girl and you're going to meet you thank you so much for doing this for yeah she's a little tricky thing she was she was like a low plastic no this was the first bomb if you like to.

share. one of the last times i remember talking to where was my birthday she worked in star all at the time and they would let her off that for her to come home so i got really really nice and i can member . seemed to me. then i didn't say it back to her because i was some oh that was true. but you know this is that everything that i remember being so you know you. are ok. did you see this man face they say so. i came up as the world is long oh wonderful child. to be green.

would you like to make just by going on camera i don't want to go on you know you just don't think these things are going to happen i mean you go about these kinds of things happen to other people exactly or either they're in a situation where it's like dro de leno or or out when they're not supposed to be your whatever that's that's who this happens to but it didn't it came in my home. and and everything completely changed it's twenty one years later what do you understand happened she was then her last year of it. and they were in the middle of finals. when he drove manning had broken into a boy's car. he had stolen the leather jacket he had stolen huggy that goes round the drain we think tiffany and john mark down to sigma ca. and count

him ranking in the mall as car and took them back to one point at that moment. he got john to drive to the sentimental and he stand in the passenger side. he shot gun in the back of behavior. and then he took taking his car and ran over jumped the drug company out in the woods. chattering the miles in the shallow end of henri. the sheriff's department and their buddy first got there they didn't know dave knew it was a mob and they followed drag marks and that's how they found me. when i was told that she had been killed. my first impression was to change places whether. for many years

i'm still there no met paul works and think ok we're going to mess with. an interview like what we just did with the mother of tiffany. it's just devastating because you see how deeply they believe in the original trial they want anality they don't understand why the case is being called into question and you can understand their feelings. i wanted to hear firsthand what the atmosphere in starkville was like after the murders so i went to talk to a journalist at the clarion ledger jerry mitchell covered the murders and the trial . here is. a film that. pamela. a member of covering all this stuff and those huge headlines. we have this horrible crime that anyone arrested yet and you know who did it who

did it then less than a month later another brutal double murder took place at a housing project just a few miles across town. and then also and you have these two elderly african-american women who were killed. and it's also horrific to have their throats flip. so this is this awfulness this kind of go around solution very much huge pressure on the on the police to arrest and find somebody guilty of this whoever it was they won't want to. elect up in the air wondering if the killer is son elisa and and it being students our age that's what's really scary because the trip happened to any of us. with starkville on edge after the two double murders local authorities are trying hard to solve these crimes we have been trying to get an interview with the sheriff and the district attorney to hear their perspective on the case so far they've declined to be interviewed. in the

frustrations of doing these kinds of cases a lot of people when they feel the heat don't want to talk. so from the records this is what we know about the investigation the fear. he was that the car burglar was also the murderer so the investigation first centered on tracking down the stolen items from the car of john sticklers friend. weeks after the crime one of the items was found the sigma chi fraternity hug which was used to hold a beer can firefighters walked out of the woods with one in his hand and said in this. paper couple weeks ago that he was looking for. on the sheriff's suspect list was willie jerome manning he was known to have broken into cars on the m s u campus the huggy was found about five miles from manning's home manning was already in custody for unrelated crimes. as the investigation continued manning cellmate told police that manning confessed to him about the burglary and the murders. took five

and a half months but tonight there is an arrest in the murders of two mississippi. twenty four year old really jerome morning also known as fly is charged with two counts capital murder in the december sayings of pamela tiffany miller from madison and john stack of matches manning's ex-girlfriend provided another set of clues she had a leather jacket given to her by willie manning similar to the one stolen from the car she also said she had seen manning shooting a tree with a pistol in his back yard. bullet fragments found near the tree provided forensic evidence that could be compared to the bullets found in the bodies. with his accumulation of evidence the authorities are confident they have the culprit in custody and charged willie manning with the murder of the m.s. you students. but it was just the beginning a year after his arrest manny was also charged with the murder of two elderly african-american women police found a witness who claimed that he saw manning entering the victim's apartment the night

that they were killed. i went to visit harris the former girlfriend of kevin lucius the man who testified as the key witness against manning. when the two young ladies were killed the merge took place and brew for a garden and it's like five minutes away from me my baby day it was in my life. the police got in touch with kevin in st louis missouri he was being charged on a double murder. and they went up there and spoke with kevin and say they can get him off the murder charges up there if he cooperated with the murder trial it was going on down here. for us all the way he came by and say that they've gone charge me kevin with the murders and we didn't cooperate. and so i told him i didn't know anything and they told me that they knew i had a newborn baby and it was real intimidating and thinking that my abs don't lose

much. and they will make me feel like i won't be in jail for alone time they wanted me to write out a statement stating their i was living in a garden and they had me kevin and my daughter was looking at the window. and there we witnessed the flash willimantic open and get into the door and run at what bloody clothes on. and. it was in turn. and we met at a women's net and valuable and in fact locution kevin didn't move into the brookfield garden apartment until a month after the murders took place and the police records confirm this. but i know for fact that he did not kill those two ladies because we were paid to last and he did. the trial hinged on kevin's testimony manning was convicted and sentenced to death. but at the apology i asked him for what i hear when i

hear it what. to do all these years apologetic that will start but it's a ten and i was scared that didn't know what else to do and i didn't want to go to jail and they hate me. years later both kevin lucius and the kesha harris recanted their testimony. well manning's execution is on hold as the court decides whether or not to grant him d.n.a. testing. john huffington is on the outside with an uncertain future is currently working a project server a transitional job training and counseling program for former inmates so now. you've got a player that actually you know you just relax now and you know the sort of says i find myself in right now it's still stressful and i'm out but i'm not out i'm out

on bail i'm still facing you know a whole new trial or due process is always prosecutor you know he's not letting letting this go so you know one foot on a banana peel in the sense you know i can't i can't make a long term plans i can't engage in a career i can't engage in a relationship because it's not. you know future driven it's day to day trip. a history of guerrilla warfare. a place in staying. the organisation created from stateless population. from fighting for their. while here for independence from. chronicling the turbulence to the struggle against. in the history of the revolution.

we're here to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover the story with a lot of intimate knowledge we cover includes that we don't dip in and out of this story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens here matters. june nineteenth sixty seven sixty's they redrew the map of the middle east could have. ended war with the greatest tragedy in the history of islam al-jazeera expose the events leading to the rule and its consequences which is still felt today we tried to go to the room to the united nations and try to make. contacts through different countries and it was clear that all this was she during the war in june on

al-jazeera. and richelle carey and these are the top stories on al-jazeera a saudi coalition has began a military operation to retake the port city of new data from who the rebels united arab emirates had given the who these until tuesday to leave they went on voyage to yemen had been negotiating to prevent fighting their data is the main entry point for food and medical aid for millions. the leaders of north korea and the u.s. have accepted invitations to visit each other's countries that's according to north korean state news agency the rather and donald trump met for the first time in singapore on tuesday they signed an agreement aimed at the nuclear rising the

korean peninsula and in a surprise move trump promised to stop a joint u.s. military drills with south korea i mean he has more from the south korean capital seoul. there was a statement released by the south korean for defense ministry saying that they would still basically decipher the woods from donald trump to see what exactly they meant and there was also a statement released by the military forces the u.s. forces based here in south korea saying that they had received no information no order that these military exercises were going to be cancelled or suspended in the next round of those exercises is coming up in august u.s. federal judge has approved the merger of eighteen and t. in time warner and that creates one of the world's largest media companies the judge said the government failed to prove the eighty five billion dollars deal would harm competition and raise prices for consumers they rocky's shia cleric has

formed a coalition with the pro iranian bloc led by the mayor to form the biggest political group in parliament the men that after saddam's party won the most seats in last month's election and the mayor's party came in second the british government has reached a compromise that would allow parliament to have some say in the final deal to leave the european union and macedonia as a great to change its name to resolve the decades old dispute with greece its new name is the republic of northern macedonia and countdown to the football world cup which kicks off thursday and russia this is a live picture from moscow where members of congress are gathering to vote on who will host the event in two thousand and twenty six the choices between morocco and a joint bid by the united states canada and mexico. there are the headlines the news continues and al-jazeera keep it here the system is next. john huffington is on the outside with an uncertain future. you know we all make

choices i did go to school and i was younger we all we are through sophomore year of high school. both my parents the very words came my father's ph d. my mother had a master's both teacher taught at different points in their careers so education was like really paramount. stepped away from all that and took a left turn and got into the party scene and you know put myself in the wrong choice of lifestyle. i was doing drugs and it was in the eighty's and cocaine was coming in at that point it was a new thing you know is the big thing and there's a lure to the money you know the reputation of prestigious comes with and that's my son longball two situation i now find myself you know still in.

business pretty clear going to d.n.a. evidence just kind of sounds him in this case. d.n.a. was finally tested of a hair that was alleged to a bald john huffington found in the bed the murder victim diana bakker but. that was not the only piece of evidence and there is other evidence to suggest that he might have done the crime and so it'll be interesting to see what the family has to say we're heading over to go talk to bill watson the brother of diana becker. alone oh yes there were later cerberus to meet your thank you this is july fourth one nine hundred sixty nine. diana was the tongue twirling group called the skipper at. and cilla to legal forms she was one heck of a baton twirler. she did this for many many years she absolutely loved that

activity. diana was a very kind person. there's just a natural warmth and love that's dinah there and myself. she end up getting married very very young because she got pregnant she was sixteen ok and that marriage. had failed as many as young marriages do she was on her own for a while raising her son danny. cresent she met joe hudson joe was a disc jockey. and they actually cohabitate it up until the time of her death. must have been obviously i was there i can't imagine what how did you get the news and. i guess it was may twenty fifth one thousand nine hundred the phone rang as my my mother on the phone. obviously upset and she just says me time is dead.

as what she was dying is dead in that state of shock at the time in a course of first thing i was like what happened and she said she was murdered across our brush rather the house and my mother was there i control the sobbing. and i just sat with her for about an hour two hours probably is holding her own. and. in the summertime they'd go down to this camp local campground police said they'd interviewed a couple that had been with joe and diana the night before they were supposed to have breakfast with them the next morning and that's when their friends. entered the trailer. console diana and danny was in the trailer he was screaming out my mom's all covered with blood and she won't wake up. she was stabbed thirty times her throat was slit back to the backbone and commits salling marks that he tried to sell or head off as you know her skull was crushed with

a heavy vodka bottle filled with coins. johansson was killed almost execution style. he was shot and then you had one shot to the forehead. the murders were associated with they said well these are two drug dealers. i'm like whoa dinah was involved trogs or least we didn't know it all but then come to find out that diana listenership joe is you know i guess toys contain dealing. and then a news story coming in a little bit. they had a couple suspects. do you know if an heiress was a known drug dealer john huffington eighteen tom. canaris surrendered to police and agreed to cooperate in exchange for a reduced sentence he was released in two thousand and eight after spending twenty seven years in prison. often was arrested within forty eight hours but always

maintained his innocence claiming he was home alone sleeping when the murders took place the comments on the charges against the evidence against huffington seemed overwhelming a hair found on diana becker's body was matched to him by the f.b.i. crime lab huffington fingerprint was also found on the box the bottle used to kill diana bakker canaris testified that he watched huffington kill both diana becker and johansson. i think then was found guilty of both murders in november of one thousand nine hundred one and ultimately sentenced to two life terms it was vicious it was almost like. she was hated tell me why you think john huffington is guilty there's two pieces of physical evidence that placed john huffington at the scene the crime was the hair evidence that was later found to be inaccurate through d.n.a. testing the second was his thumb print on a vodka bottle which was one of the murder weapons it was his thumb was in

a position on that bottle that was consistent with a bludgeoning sounds far as we're concerned yes ok i grant you the hair evidence. was inaccurate. but then you have other evidence that placed in there ok let's concede that it's a bad hair or put it aside we got the bob a bottle and the vodka bottle has huffington fingerprint on it but it has a lot of other people's prints on it also and that bottle was in the trailer for anyone to touch. the justice system it's in the hands of human beings and both sides that we've met so far are personable and believable and it just kind of a pedal mises. how the. justice system run by human beings can run off the rails. an example of this is the disastrous work of one

agent in the f.b.i. crime lab exposed by fred whitehurst michael moore who's an agent in the laboratory i. should say when you look at him you said this is the kind of guy i want to be like. to examine years from the lab and forty came to me consider you've got to stop this guy michael malone stop him from doing what. over inferring the here data . we've tracked all along cases about eight hundred thirty six i mean he testified false false or misleading. after fred whitehurst was forced to leave the f.b.i. he started the forensic justice project with david cole in tow. that's in there this is documents that were referred by the justice department to the f.b.i. . i love this stuff. through this organization they filed freedom of information act requests to investigate all of the cases touched by michael malone that's

that's what we want to know who loan might have hurt so friends of justice project general counsel david cope and joe. but all these foia requests getting any information all of that in. cases that michael malone might have been involved in and we got them this is the huff and yes that's right ok so then it got assigned to someone at some point mr malone comes into the picture so this is malone testified and we need to survive get down here just a little bit and look at this michael malone analyze the evidence and john huffington is double murder case there were two hairs found at the scene under the bed sheet one on the bed sheet itself and one on the garter belt of the victim. that was the key evidence of the prosecution brought up that's what put him at the time and place of these murders. in one thousand nine hundred nine an internal

report found problems with what michael malone a down in the huffington case. with their analysis we're told is real microscope you don't know how many characters you can have to match you can choose how many match and it's depending upon the person that's doing the analysis not upon fact not upon data not upon a standard. we knew that there were problems with this technique there are many documented cases where analysts including michael malone but not limited to michael out have matched things like carpet fibers to head hair he did not testify consistently with his notes he'd excluded hairs without explaining why he was excluding hairs could match tears without explaining why he mash errors he hadn't taken hair samples from all of the people who might have been in contact with the body. this internal f.b.i. report was completely unknown to us until an investigative reporter from the washington post contacted us about that report in november two thousand and eleven

. a series of articles in the washington post revealed that flawed forensic work by f.b.i. experts may have led to the conviction of innocent people and the u.s. department of justice knew about these flood practices for a long time. those reports that were generated from that were now. may be may readily available not not just to the public but just to the tourney's in the news the cases that were involved and if it wasn't for the washington post we were known today. they looked at seventy cases in particular the age of michael malone was involved they were just looking for background because he had been involved in my case and we did know they had the f.b.i. files so you know that was just you know you know. it's a matter. of you want to tell you right here ok and it was. twelve

years ago in my case it could fix to. fifty one that's another twelve years of lost . him don't get it back. michael malone. was determined to have like twenty seven times under oath at that time every wheel on that car should come to a screeching halt in every case mr mone had ever worked should have been reviewed and he should of work no more cases if they found out there was a problem which they did. they were unable to test the hairs and this fully how is it that the hairs were eventually tested yes it was only when the f.b.i. got involved again that they were able to actually test the hairs so the f.b.i. lab itself was the lab that eventually determined the john huffington could not be matched her d.n.a. to these hairs. they were able to interpret the shoddy work of their own analyst we

reached out to the f.b.i. for an interview but they refused our request in a written response they stated there is no reason to believe the f.b.i. laboratory employed flawed forensic techniques microscopic hair analysis is still conducted at the f.b.i. lab surprisingly the f.b.i. has offered to pay for d.n.a. testing in the manning case but the state of mississippi has refused if we are able to test those hair fragments we could possibly determined who the real perpetrator is or definitely exclude willie manning as being the force of the hair that was found in the car his mistress and his mr huffington and that's for us to decide. when we the truth before. i make comments on the charges against somebody can take you sir away from whatever your family. i mean done something you never did that you were never supposed to and put you in a cage and in

a death chamber it's not a job. for individuals who challenge the system as fred whitehurst did there seems to be a heavy price to pay what are the costs of ensuring a level playing field in the criminal justice system f.b.i. director louis freeh is cleared of any blame and gets credit for starting to make reforms but today's report recommends against putting frederick whitehurst back in the crime lab where i came. very significant problem that the f.b.i. and this is their response to me you know. if you don't go along with the crowd it gets harder and harder harder and. then you find yourself marginalized put off in a corner sent for. fitness for duty evaluation.

sitting on our own with a psychiatry's who ask you a bunch of silly questions for nine hours. is it it worth. is mr huffington worth it. my personal position is every american citizen and every human being is worth. but there's a big price to pay you when you take that position. the potential reach of this systemic problem is astounding it wasn't just a couple of analysts it was a significant number of people in the lab analysts and the lab managers in the lab who were just allowing bad and misleading work to come out of the well. there was simply not very many. experience scientists in key lab positions. the. two thousand ton pink elephant in the courtroom is that the f.b.i. trained every year examiner united states in crime labs. there are hundreds of

thousands of hair cases where people came in and looked through a microscope for a week or two weeks of the most went home and started rendering opinions about whether here mr not. in the f.b.i. can't force the states to look at those cases. and the states are not going to do it the notion that when presented with a clear and unequivocal and undeniable evidence. that you convicted the wrong person that people won't step away from that and do their very best as quickly as possible to acknowledge that there was a mistake made and to try to remediate the problem and make amends to the defendant i find that extraordinarily disappointing in the case of william adding a request to analyze d.n.a. has been made but the prosecution is fighting this motion. i've never understood why the state was opposing testing in this case the law is clear that you know we should be able to do this. you know if you had a boil it down in

a nutshell you know like what do you want people to know about your case we should take a closer look at the system about how. my case look right a lot alike and i don't believe that there's any part of this that you know but this is not as advertised this system is broken you have a meaning many many more will be manning that there will came before me and his knowledge the system stays the same that we made him will come in behind me you know what is your hope for the future and you think this is going to work itself out and one day i thought it would be a lot to heck with that it be back it might might be ninety seven or so but when when you when you you have an offense people and you have innocent people for real and those who are for real can never lose hope given that you have been ten years second such what i believe in on this home. grown you take it. you take care man. i. turned him in yeah the first you got such

a good attitude and say. you know i was coops made in the us with that we'll do misspent care. we don't want to be going through this we want justice we want to you can say in our life over something else other than the end even though it's frustrating even though it's doesn't give you a finale yet is there a place in this justice system where even if somebody is guilty they should have some benefit of looking into that issue i do understand that they have found innocent people how they would go that when they have got. a d.n.a. but in this particular case everything was as clear as was male. they're going

over something that was proven in court twenty one years ago. on a whim breathe another breath of our air on a one to fady my know the mail out of want to put a roof over his say. and it won't be a final tomato he's they hadn't got. the you know we had a long talk with the mother of tiffany and it's heartbreaking because they're so convinced because they believe in their official they believe in what they've been told how they feel about that right well i understand that. some people might think that this is just a last you know eleventh hour effort to defer postpone an execution and you know if it works out where it does not help mr manning then at least you know we has a soft society now that we've taken every reasonable step to ensure that

a catastrophic outcome did not come about if the d.n.a. in willy manning's case is allowed to be tested as it was in john huffington skase and manning is found not guilty horrible outcome will have been averted. it's a crapshoot to bill watson the results of huffington the d.n.a. testing has led him to question the fairness of the system for the system to work for you guys you know what has to happen this case for faith in the system can ever be restored. pils we have to overturn this judge's decision. john hutton and he's be placed once again in jail. without possibility of parole. he needs to die in jail. right get off of work elected to sit on the stupid online a bit before going in to do anything. really infanta this tree that you know

amazing when you see a tree just flourishing in spite of being surrounded by concrete in the most inhospitable type of terrain yet there is a beautiful tree. it is supposed to be a justice system so justice should be more to their.