hoping to get a new trial for duckett, wells called jack edmond to the stand to account for his poor d told the court, i blew it. >> i trusted jack edmond. i trusted that 25 years of experience as a criminal attorney, that he would correct this and i was wrong. >> beth wells also offered alternate suspects for the crime starting with ex-cons and migrant workers who stayed at the mcabee home. >> teresa's uncle testified that she had complained to him that there was one man in particular who stayed over there with her mother who would try to pull her down on the couch and touch her inappropriately. and for that reason she had asked to stay at the uncle's house. he's never been examined by the police. they didn't take hair follicles from him. he left town soon after. we don't know where he is. we don't have a full name for him. >> there were always a lot of people around that home that didn't live there. like a little gathering. there were always more guys than girls. a lot of stuff to raise suspicion about. you know, you have an 11-year-old female child in the house. >> i think the pers

. >> but duckett's defense attorney, jack edmond, had not questioned the pubic hair results at trial.r evidence of duckett's alibi and to depose some key witnesses. >> jack assured me that he would handle this, don't worry about it, consider it a short vacation. he said we'll get this straightened out. >> i kept telling jack, i think you're overconfident and taking too much for granted. you think they don't have that strong of a case. but you're not trying to convince me. you're trying to convince 12 other people. >> in order to retain jack edmond, james duckett's family had taken out a mortgage on their home, putting their hopes in one of the most renowned defense attorneys in florida. >> everything i could find, this attorney did a horrendous job in defending james duckett. defense attorney 101. you take depositions from the state's witnesses. the key witnesses anyway. this was never done. >> in 1997, beth wells appealed duckett's case to the lake county circuit court in florida. hoping to get a new trial for duckett, wells called jack edmond to the stand to account for his poor per