Evidence Uncovered: The Legal Team Breaks Down the Case

Sally, I'm going to start with you.

What piece of evidence or issue did you select?

So I selected the evidence of Bill Domet, Deputy Bill Domet's misconduct for several reasons, because I think that the court's response to it was really ridiculous and misguided.

So our listeners may remember that the evidence from the original trial was that Domet had threatened Chester with the death penalty, saying that he would ride the Thunderbolts if he didn't confess.

So then he lied about having ever said that on the stand and he was impeached by one of the prosecutors.

So by a very reliable, very good impeachment.

So Dummett definitely said that and he perjured himself on the stand.

That's in the trial record.

Everybody knows that.

Chester also had testified that Dummett had walked him through crime scene photos to induce his confession.

Of course, Dummett denied that on the stand.

OK, this is not known at the time of trial, but it would become known later on that this was a pattern of Dummett's.

So in a 1980 case, so obviously it's 20 years later, Stephen Broaddus, Broaddus was charged with murder and he insisted that Dummett had shown him autopsy photos.

Dummett denied taking the photos, using them against him or murdering.

having them in his possession.

But when it became known that Dummett had, Dummett was the one that took the photos, the judge ordered that Dummett's office be searched.

And lo and behold, they find the photos in Dummett's desk.

So lying again.

Okay.

Then in 1970, going backwards.

So 10 years before that, in the middle of between 1960 and 1980, um, a man named Robert Harris was charged with participating in a large murder, sorry, a large robbery for which he was facing a potential term of 60 years.

And he was charged on the basis of a statement of this guy whose last name is Stevens.

Long story short, Harris's attorney went and found Stevens, who said that Bill Domet, among others, had concocted the statement and basically made him sign it in exchange for a lighter sentence on an unrelated charge for him.

Okay, so, of course, our judge did not let any of that information in at our third stage hearing.

However, we were able to introduce some evidence against Domet and against his credibility, which was that...

Sally, I'm going to start with you.

What piece of evidence or issue did you select?

So I selected the evidence of Bill Domet, Deputy Bill Domet's misconduct for several reasons, because I think that the court's response to it was really ridiculous and misguided.

So our listeners may remember that the evidence from the original trial was that Domet had threatened Chester with the death penalty, saying that he would ride the Thunderbolts if he didn't confess.

So then he lied about having ever said that on the stand and he was impeached by one of the prosecutors.

So by a very reliable, very good impeachment.

So Dummett definitely said that and he perjured himself on the stand.

That's in the trial record.

Everybody knows that.

Chester also had testified that Dummett had walked him through crime scene photos to induce his confession.

Of course, Dummett denied that on the stand.

OK, this is not known at the time of trial, but it would become known later on that this was a pattern of Dummett's.

So in a 1980 case, so obviously it's 20 years later, Stephen Broaddus, Broaddus was charged with murder and he insisted that Dummett had shown him autopsy photos.

Dummett denied taking the photos, using them against him or murdering.

having them in his possession.

But when it became known that Dummett had, Dummett was the one that took the photos, the judge ordered that Dummett's office be searched.

And lo and behold, they find the photos in Dummett's desk.

So lying again.

Okay.

Then in 1970, going backwards.

So 10 years before that, in the middle of between 1960 and 1980, um, a man named Robert Harris was charged with participating in a large murder, sorry, a large robbery for which he was facing a potential term of 60 years.

And he was charged on the basis of a statement of this guy whose last name is Stevens.

Long story short, Harris's attorney went and found Stevens, who said that Bill Domet, among others, had concocted the statement and basically made him sign it in exchange for a lighter sentence on an unrelated charge for him.

Okay, so, of course, our judge did not let any of that information in at our third stage hearing.

However, we were able to introduce some evidence against Domet and against his credibility, which was that...