Guilty Until Proven Innocent - Encore
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-Real people, real crimes, real life drama. -On December 7, 1989, in Lake County, there's been a series of bump rapes and robs occurring. And what that means is you're a single woman driving alone at night, your car gets bumped, and they would grab you, and sexually assault you. The victim in this case, she's been out that night drinking. She's driving home, and she's bumped. And she gets out of her car, and she's assaulted, taken into another vehicle, and she says, "Raped by five men." -But there's a racial component here. The five attackers were black, the woman was white. -It was terrorizing the community, and they wanted arrests at all costs, perhaps. -I had the responsibility. I was a detective lieutenant. I had a free hand. I received no interference from anybody. -Whoever perpetrated this crime were monsters. My next reaction was, can we, as prosecutors, prove beyond unreasonable to have the identity of the persons who perpetrated this crime? -We obtained two convictions out of five people that raped this girl. -I didn't do it. I couldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. -When you heard the word "rape," -It said "chills" to me. I couldn't believe that my name was being associated with such a crime. -When the judge said, "75 years, I'm 38 years old." That's like a death sentence. I'm a dying prison for a crime I didn't do. And one night, I hit my body, and I attempted to take my life. -I dreamt of a professor and law students coming to my rescue. I used to see it on TV all the time. Then, one day, I said, "I got my dream team." [MUSIC PLAYING] -Do you believe 100% of these two men are innocent? -Yes, absolutely. -100%? Yes. -The more you read the case, you see all the factors leading to wrongful convictions, like jailhouse niches, ineffective assistance of counsel, junk science. -How confident are you that Darryl Pinkens and Roosevelt Glenn raped that woman?
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Two friends convicted of rape claim neither did it.