. >> but duckett's defense attorney, jack edmond, had not questioned the hair results at trial. o neglected to gather evidence of duckett's alibi and to depose some key witnesses. >> jack assured me he would handle it, don't worry biabout . we'll get this straightened out. >> i kept telling him, don't take anything for granted. you think they don't have that strong of a case. you're not trying to convince me, you're trying to convince 12 other people. >> in order to retain edmond, his family had put their home up to hire him. >> for everything i could find, this attorney did a terrible 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 performance, edmond 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 thi

hoping to get a new trial for duckett, wells called jack edmond to the stand to account for his poor nce. edmond 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 excould have beens 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. 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 the home that didn't live there. there were always more guys than girls. a lot of stuff to raise suspicion, you have an 11-year-old female child in the house. >> i think the person who was had a ragss te