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Hello everybody and welcome back to Truth and Justice. I am joined once again by Dr.

Sandra Lean last week on the show. You heard all about how the prosecution managed to convict

Luke Mitchell. I have to tell you from my perspective when I heard it, it sounds like a

not even just a circumstantial case but a pretty flimsy case, but it worked and they were able

to obtain their conviction. So this week Dr. Lean has joined me again and this week we're going to

talk about the case for innocent. She has dedicated years of her life to studying this case,

has gone on and got her PhD in criminology and she's a paralegal because she feels so strongly

about Luke's innocence. So I'm going to turn it over to you Dr. Lean, how do you know

that Luke Mitchell is innocent? I don't. Nobody does. Nobody can say it for absolute certainty

is innocent. What I can say is the evidence that was used to convict him in no way meets the

standard of beyond reasonable doubt and further the evidence that was there available to them

at the time pointed elsewhere and clearly pointed to others had they chosen to follow up. At

no point was anybody else in this entire case considered a suspect or even a person of interest.

Now we talked about the being no forensic evidence connecting Luke to the murder or vice versa.

But there's DNA from other males on the body on the clothing in the immediate crime scene area.

There's forensic evidence, there's saliva, there's semen, there's hairs, there's fibers.

To this day 20 years later we have no idea where that evidence originated or from whom.

So I think that's a good place for us to focus today. So I think we've done a pretty good job already

of along the way the prosecution's case with the shaky witness statements. Adrenal being

unable to identify Luke and that was never in the time completely changing. We learned about how

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