. -- jonathan doody.hat happened logistically at that point was a sheriff's deputy went out to luke air force base and talked to the same person that he'd earlier talked to on the phone, secured a copy, a written copy of their report and realized that the gun had been given back to these boys. and so he then had the addresses of both boys. they both lived within a mile of the temple. they both went to high school in a small town close to that. and he found one of the two, one of the two boys. it's the one that had the gun, the .22 rifle. he asked the boy if he knew anything about the murders, and he said, no, he didn't. he asked him if he had a .22 rifle, he said, i do, but i borrowed it from a friend. the deputy asked him if he could take the gun for testing, and the boy said, sure. the sheriff's deputy left there, went back downtown where the sheriff's office had its main office and announced that he had the murder weapon. he wasn't serious, he was kidding. -a jocular kind of thing -- it was a jocular k

that happened during the trial that made it a very unusual trial was that the defense lawyer for jonathan doodie a very able lawyer named peter balkan, mr. balkan called two of the tucson for to the witness stand in the doodie case and he read evidence, didn't read it that submitted the transcript of all four. the argument was what better evidence could i possibly have of my client that the audiotape confession of four other people who say they actually committed the crime that my client denies he committed so all the tucson for when they came to the audit audit -- all the officers that were called as witnesses during the trial and the culmination of all of that enormous effort was that jonathan doodie was found guilty only of felony murder and acquitted of first-degree premeditated murder. but it was a capital case at the time. so under our law at the time in arizona at the time, capital sentences were handed down by judges after a hearing. they weren't handed down by a jury. today they are handed down by a jury that in 1991 it was nothing but a judge so he conducted a capital mitigation hearin

so in may of 2011, the court of appeals ordered that the state of arizona either release jonathan doody from the department of corrections from prison, or get him a new trial. and the state elected to get him a new trial. so that's with the case stands today. that order came down in may of 2011, it's taken some time now. i think the current prediction is new trial for jonathan will be held in phoenix, arizona in maricopa county sometime in this coming summer. that's where the case stands today. [inaudible] >> for more information on on book's recent visit to mesa, arizona and and the other places go to c-span.org/local content. >>> you're watching booktv, 48 hours of non-fiction authors and books. every weekend on c-span2. here's programs to look out for this weekend. at 3:45 eastern, layla gilbert, paul marsha, and new -- army of god describes the crime joseph connie koney in central africa. tomorrow live at noon live with amy goodman. submit your questions at booktv. watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. and for complete schedule, visit booktv.org. >> back to ten t