Noura’s trial aired live on Court TV in February 2009. Corder called no witnesses, emphasizing instead to the jury that the DNA evidence pointed away from Noura to unknown suspects. After the trial, Weirich spoke to the local news media. And sometimes prosecutors omit evidence without meaning to or because they never receive it from the police. At Thomas’s trial, Weirich asked the pivotal witness if she had ‘‘collected one red cent.’’ The witness said no, even though she received $750 from the F.B.I.

Source: New York Times August 01, 2017 09:00 UTC