Barry Scheck Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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