Barry Scheck Quotations

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

My fear is that the debate over sequential blind will obscure everything, and you'll have police departments who are reluctant to change at all, or not adopt anything.

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

He didn't get the best possible results, but by no means the worst possible either. I think it's good, not great.

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.

Texans deserve to have faith in the evidence used in their criminal justice system to investigate, prosecute, convict and acquit.

There are other people in prison in the state of Texas...convicted of arson with the same kind of evidence in play.

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.

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.

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

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

is that it happened about three weeks ago -- prior to February 4.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.