resources prosecutors have versus defense attorneys just i'm brooks is the director of the california innocence project a nonprofit group dedicated to helping wrongfully convicted americans get out of prison prosecutors have a police force at their disposal as their investigators there they get the case. from the 1st moment it's being investigated they have access to all the people who are involved in that defense comes late to the date we are at a total disadvantage the 6th amendment to the us constitution is supposed to guarantee the right to effective counts but as we're seeing in america you have to buy your rights you're more likely to walk free if you're rich and guilty and you are if you're poor and the evidence is detected monsoor telling is lies robert hughes telling his lies. and no alternate suspects. and so i'm screwed. they're charging me with 1st degree murder which carries 26 years to life and stay frozen that's longer than i've been alive. a day and a half in my journey comes to me in the holding tank and says the judge is willing to entertain a guilty plea in exchange for you through a