Barry Scheck Quotes (14 Quotes)

This should be a landmark case in the history of eyewitness reform. There are reforms police and prosecutors are using across the country that reduce error, protect the innocent and help apprehend the guilty.

Miss Woodward has always taken the course that would vindicate her and prove her innocent.

The whole system has broken down. It's time to find out whether Texas has executed an innocent man.

In an interview on CNN's Late Edition, ... can examine it under a microscope and see sperm. And the key issue is whether there is sperm there.

This is a case where the wrong man went to prison and the real person committed some awful crimes, all because of the utter incompetence of the HPD crime lab. This is the face of the crime-lab debacle. This is the human damage.

Somebody's got to be right or wrong about this.

In so many instances, doing this DNA testing not only exonerates an innocent person but also helps identify the person who really committed the crime before that person goes out and commits more.

There's something wrong with the system. It's time to find out whether Texas executed an innocent man.

I think we now have scientific proof that an innocent person was executed and we have a government agency that is obligated to say so.

Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the prosecutor or the defense,

DNA has shown, whether it's the death penalty or not, there are flaws with eyewitness testimony, false confessions and crime labs. We know many more people have been wrongfully convicted than anyone thought.

There's two cases here. Willis can't be actually innocent and Willingham couldn't be executed based on the same scientific evidence.

It's unusual to have a number of groups responding so quickly just for an application. I think that it reflects how troubled the legal community is by the county court's decision.

I don't know what went wrong. Because I look at this evidence and this is an inconceivable verdict to me.