Freed after 41 years on death row. How Douglas Carter’s attorney is fighting to clear his name.
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Imagine losing 41 years of your life behind bars, sentenced to die for murder. Then, at 71 years old, you finally walk out of prison, but you’re still charged with the crime.
Tonight on Courtroom Insider, the stunning case of Douglas Stewart Carter, who spent four decades on Utah’s death row for the 1985 murder of Eva Olesen.
After a judge threw out his conviction over serious misconduct by police and prosecutors, new DNA testing has excluded Carter from six pieces of evidence.
Carter says police forced him to confess. Two key witnesses later recanted, alleging they were threatened and coached to lie. Now, with DNA evidence raising even more questions, prosecutors must decide whether to try him again.
Carter’s defense attorney, Neal Hamilton, joins Nate Eaton to discuss the fight to free his client, the evidence that unraveled the case, and the questions that remain unanswered.
Watch in the video player above.
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