c.j. riceiladelphia teen sentenced to up to 60 years in prison for four counts of attempted murder. rice has not only insisted on his innocence, but my dad, who was his pediatrician at the time, said that rice would have been physically incapable of committing the crime in question. you would think that would have played a key part, a key role in his defense. but it's just one of the many ways his lawyer failed c.j. rice. and the p injustice, it's par forth than i could have imagined. this is my dad, dr. theodore tapper, who spent decades as a pediatrician in south philadelphia. for years, my dad's been telling me about a former patient, c.j. rice, currently doing 30 to 60 years in prison, for a crime my father insists rice could physically not have committed. >> it was impossible. >> no dna, no crime scene evidence, ties rice to the crime. one eyewitness, who had known c.j. for years, repeatedly told police she could not identify the gunman. >> i think it was 20 years where she had spoken to a

d as c.j. riceber 25th 2011. >> the eyewitness testified that he was 20 feet away. 20 feet away however would actually be putting him here. this is 20 feet away. >> where i was before, all the way over there. that is what, like 50 feet away maybe even more depending on exactly where he was behind this car. that was over here. >> witnesses said they saw the gunman running, but my dad had examined the 17-year-old c.j. rice just five days earlier and he insisted that c.j. was in no condition to run. >> he had staples in his abdomen over approximately eight or nine-inch surgical incision from his breast bone, straight down far as you can go. >> that is because three works earlier, so jay wright had been shot three times in a case of what he thought was mistaken identity. >> there was no way that this young man, five years after i saw him was running anywhere let alone walking fast. >> my dad demonstrates here just how slowly he remembers c.j. rice leaving his office that day. >> with great difficulty an

>> to be frank, because c.j. ricend she was incompetent. she did not provide c.j. with adequate counsel, she did not meet with my dad before the -- before he testified in court, and she did not seek his medical records, c.j.'s medical records. she did not have the records from the hospital, which would have shown he had a fractured pelvis at the time, not just more than 30 staples. and so because she was so poorly prepared, didn't even visit the crime scene as far as i can tell, my dad's testimony was basically just a wash. she didn't know how to get this compelling testimony out of him, she didn't know how to present the medical evidence to the jury. and because of that, and one other thing, one eyewitness who was questionable, he was convicted. it is really a travesty. >> not even visiting the crime scene. how can that lack of representation on his behalf, that lack of just due diligence be explained? >> well, because in this country, you have a right to counsel, you don't have a right to good counsel or even adequa

his name c.j. rice. the man coming to his defense, dr. tapper, dr. tapper's son in a cover story in the "atlantic magazine." jake, your father was rice's pediatrician and he felt his teenage patient could not physically commit the murders, the attempted murders he's in jail for. exp explain. >> c.j. when he was 17 was shot in south philadelphia and rushed to the hospital and had a bullet removed from his body and about three weeks later of a pretty difficult recovery from that, he staggered into my dad's office september 20th, i think was the date, 2011 and he could barely walk. he walked like a 95, 100-year-old man. very, very difficult short steps in a lot of pain. wasn't taking his painkillers because he didn't like how the percocets made him feel and six days later c.j. got arrested for a different shooting and my dad -- in which the suspects ran and my dad thought there is no way he could have done this and in fact, c.j. and everyone in his family thought this is obviously a mistake. they can't charge him. he's not capable of committ

rice was 17. she didn't even move to have the case heard in a juvenile court. she didn't apparently visit the crime scene. she didn't poke holes and the only evidence against c.jously said three times she had no idea who did it and then changed her mind the next day and said c.j. did it after the police got a tip that he did. didn't even point that out. just instant after instant. now, my dad testified at the trial and he said for the first time in his career, he's a doctor and testified in cases before, he never met the attorney until basically he was on the stand and she failed to ask basic questions that would elicit the answers that would have a defense for him, mainly, that c.j. could barely walk at the time of the shooting, muchless run. >> so walk us back. your dad met him and your dad treated him and what your dad noticed and why to your point your dad said he wouldn't have been able to walk at that point. >> my dad had been his pediatrician for his whole life. he had been seeing him forever when he was -- in september 20th, i think it was, 2011, c.j. came in. he had been shot three weeks before. c.j. said it was a case of mistaken identity but whateve