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match tonight a 2020 investigation
the amazing story that could be the next
making a murderer
he was like they're trying to pin this
on me i was like dad what are you
talking about
they're talking about this nature loving
girl found murdered on a riverbank
there's a car that's run off an
embankment and there's a body land
now the man found fishing nearby
sentenced to life
for killing her a man many think is
innocent
and what you see tonight could set him
free
did the evidence of a brutal strangling
put him away
it was knotted very tightly around her
neck or was it a hell-bent detective
honing in on an easy a car
you target heard a car you never touched
the car low behold guess whose dna is
inside a dead girl's car
tonight one woman's crusade to prove his
innocence
people just lost track of who was doing
what lost track in a high-profile murder
case
we're showing you the crime scene at the
water's edge fishing
there's no way i could even lean out and
see that there's anything going on
tapes the jury never saw even the judge
now rethinking the case what do you
think after watching that
videotape it does make me question
whether or not
mark carver did it did they catch a
murderer
or make one if mark carver didn't kill
iri yamalenka
then who did
hello i'm elizabeth vargas and i'm david
muir as we come on the air here tonight
a man sits in a north carolina prison
nearly six years
into a life sentence for killing this
young woman right here behind us tonight
but just like that hit documentary
series making a murderer questions are
now being raised
is an innocent man behind bars just
yesterday mark carver's lawyer filed a
motion to have his conviction overturned
to start fresh with a new trial i've now
spent hours with that man at the center
who refused a plea deal
saying he wouldn't confess to something
he didn't do
after tonight will you think he did it
drive west from charlotte north carolina
on interstate 85
and you'll cross the catawba river wide
and placid it's a big draw for
recreational boaters and sportsmen
in close but separate locations on the
river's wooded banks
two people arrive here on the morning of
may 5th 2008
they could not be more different
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one is a 20 year old student from nearby
unc
charlotte ira yarmolenko a musician
a photographer a poet we
as women as children an outdoorsy type
who loves nature really
enjoyed the beauty of nature she tried
to find it everywhere
pavel is era's brother why do you think
your sister drove to the river that day
i think that she was looking for a
pretty spot to take pictures at
ira is originally from the ukraine
immigrating here with her family when
she was just seven years old
the other person on the river that day
39 year old mark carver
he's from just down the road in nearby
gastonia
a dirt road which bears his family name
lined with modest dwellings which house
his relatives
carver was a very simple person
his family lived out in the country
didn't have much education
could not read very well cannot write
very well
unlike era mark has never been to
college in fact he's never gone to high
school
after years of working in the local
cotton mills he now spends his day here
at this fishing hole on the catawba
where he casts away his troubles
often with this man his cousin neil
cassida robin carver is mark's
sister-in-law
oh they were together all the time when
they were fishing and stuff
what happened on that river that bright
may day is as perplexing as it was
violent but this much we can tell you
for sure
today ira yarmolenko is in a north
carolina cemetery
and mark carver is in this north
carolina prison
serving a life sentence for her murder
i recently went behind the barbed wire
and concrete walls
to hear his story hi mark hi i'm
elizabeth
nice to meet you why don't you have a
seat okay
how long have you been in this prison
mark five years
there is no question that what happened
to era that day was
terrible and tragic but attorney chris
mumma who's devoted her career to
exonerating the wrongfully convicted
says carver is also a victim we think
mark is innocent
and if mark is innocent the family has
not received justice and the true
perpetrator is still out on the streets
mumma took me out on the river to the
spot where carver and cassidy were
fishing that morning
mark would back his truck up to this
down this road
so he didn't walk the road he drove down
he drove down
and literally parked with the back of
the truck right here he would sit on the
back the tailgate and fish
cassette left around 12 30 that
afternoon leaving carver alone
half an hour later two jet skiers out
for a ride on the catawba
come upon a gruesome scene
i'm a boater on the catawba river
something blue and metallic catches the
eye of one of the jet skiers
there's a car that's run off an
embankment and there's a body land
laying there i don't know if there are
or not and as they
motor up closer they see the body of a
young girl lying in the grass beside the
car
it is ira yarmolenko her body her car
found 100 yards up river from carver's
fishing hole
the police found ear's body right beside
the driver's side of the cart
elizabeth leland has written extensively
about the case for the charlotte
observer
she says the bizarre crime scene posed
far more questions
than answers she wasn't raped she wasn't
robbed
there were lots of things that just
didn't make sense about this case
among them the odd manner of death these
three ligatures around her neck it was
the drawstring
that had been taken out of her hoodie
and wrapped around tight
and knotted in several places there was
a bungee cord that had been tied around
and lastly a very dainty little blue
ribbon
the disturbing discovery in the catawba
river a body as the media descends
police begin canvassing the area for
witnesses
they talked to those two jet skiers and
to construction workers who were in the
area where era's body was found
we went see if anything could be done
but it was it was too late there was no
movement
and of course they find that fisherman
calmly
casting for carp just downstream mark
carver
and what did they tell you was happening
they didn't tell me nothing
they just said they need to get my name
and address and my fishing license i
give them to them
and then he gave him back i shook his
hand they went up through there
carver is cooperative but not very
helpful he says he neither saw nor
heard anything so police have nothing
but bad news to deliver when they notify
ira's family police officer came to the
door what did he say
he slowly walked in and and told us
that unfortunately they have found my
sister's body and that they're very
certain
that it's her i can't fathom getting
news like that
i think all of us simply collapsed where
we were and
that was that was it days pass with no
arrest
the mystery now as deep as the sorrow
i hope that when you go home tonight you
will tell
everybody that you love them you will
tell everyone that you know that you
love them
pavel eulogizes his sister at a memorial
service on campus
in the coming days she is laid to rest
while detectives speak to those who last
saw her
piecing together her final steps this
video is to represent
the timeline for miss irena yarmolenko
detectives record this
timeline video era spent the morning
running errands she
went to the credit union and she went to
the goodwill a security camera catches
her donating several bags of clothing
and then she went to jackson's java
which was a coffee shop where she worked
takes approximately 5 minutes and 50
seconds to drive to
jackson's jabba from goodwill and from
there to the catawba river
is about a 19-minute drive this is the
last documented moment of era's life
a grainy video of her car driving
through the parking lot of a ymca
about half a mile from the embankment
where her car was found
police study it searching for any sign
of another person with her but the video
is so
unclear police can't tell so they
pursued the theory that era must have
met her killer
out on the river if someone approached
her that she didn't know would she
had her defenses up unfortunately for
her i think she was much more of an
outgoing type of person the kind of
person who would trust
people she didn't know i think so yeah
with the search for the killer dragging
on for weeks
and then months public pressure on the
police to solve the crime
mounts we were tormented by the search
we thought of it more or less constantly
so police bring mark carver back in and
start to do some
fishing of their own do you know what
dna is
are they about to find a murderer or
make one
everybody was just in shock we just
couldn't believe it was happening
stay with us
2020 continues
thank you i'll need you to pound these
gloves
before going through the evidence on the
ground floor of the gaston county
courthouse
we find this cardboard box
inside the evidence from the ira
yarmolenko crime scene
the three ligatures that were wrapped
around her neck
a small floral bag from which one of
those ligatures
a blue ribbon had been torn look at how
tight that knot
is crime scene photos of her car on the
banks of the river
all pieces of a rubik's cube of a case
investigators spend six months working
every possible lead
and interviewing cooperative witnesses
like mark carver
repeatedly did you see that little girl
i told him i didn't know what happened
girl or i went up there and helped her
carver and his cousin neil cassida both
volunteered dna samples
meanwhile era's family works the media
keeping images of the smiling student
the carefree spirit that was era alive
in the public's mind we simply did the
only thing we could do
contact local media and get information
out there so that possible witnesses
would submit information
pavel a brother who won't quit at one
point appeals directly to the killer
i have no doubt that once you truly
realize how deeply you've hurt us all
you'll have no choice but to surrender
it is not until
seven months after the murder that
investigators finally catch a break
they have a dna match traces
of mark carver's dna in one spot on the
outside of the car
above the rear driver's side door neil
cassida's dna is in two spots
on the inside of the right passenger
window and
on an armrest what kind of dna are we
talking about
it's dna where skin cells have been shed
and typically it's called touch
dna it is not blood dna or semen
but police think it's enough even though
the two cousins had no
obvious motive for murder the question
that the dna never answered and the
police never could
was why these men would kill ira
yamalenko
groping for answers police come up with
a theory
that era had somehow seen carver and
cassida
doing something so outrageous they had
to kill her to keep their secret
their theory was that era was down there
to photograph
and caught the men doing something that
they didn't want anybody to know about
and so that the men violently strangled
her
and pushed the car down the embankment
and that's why their dna was found on it
so now mark carver finds himself on the
hot seat
do you know what dna is i found your dna
inside a car
you said you didn't see a car you never
heard a car you never touched the car
low guess who's dna
inside a dead girl's car over and over
again
you keep telling the police we didn't
touch the car
i told them and told them that they
didn't believe nothing we told them
in fact during that hour-long
interrogation carver denies
seeing era or touching her car more than
times when the interview finally wraps
up
police allowed carver and his cousin
neil cassida to go home
but neil's daughter amy says the writing
was on the wall
he walked in and he was like they're
trying to pin this on me
did he tell you what they said to him
well they were saying that
that they knew he did it he just needed
to confess it
two days later before sunrise police
show up to arrest the men
they haul them back in and give them one
last chance to
things to confess real quick this is
neil casada y'all barking around
if i swear my mom was very if i didn't
have a time to do it
no confession no matter police charged
mark carver and neil casada
with her murder the two men are charged
with first-degree murder even though
neil cassida had already passed a
polygraph
the men appear stunned and confused at
their arraignment the following day
like everybody was just in shock we just
couldn't like we just couldn't believe
it was happening
we do not want to go to trial until we
have all the evidence
the man leading the charge against
carver and cassida is gaston county
district attorney lock bell
but it is a slow charge even after the
men make bail
neil casta's family greeted him inside
the gaston county jail tonight
no comment please police continue to
test
and eliminate eight other suspects
two years pass before prosecutors bring
the case to trial
then on the eve of the opening arguments
in neil cassidy's case
a shocking development it was sunday
morning
the trial started on monday he was in
the kitchen and
he told my mom i'm having a little
trouble breathing and he just fell over
neil cassida never gets his day in court
new quesada died in his mount holly holm
sunday morning
those two years it was very hard on him
he was so worried
that he was going to prison for
something he didn't do even with one of
the defendants dead
the state pushes forward with the
prosecution of the other
mark carver who at the time hires local
defense attorney brent
ratchford before the trial carver has
offered the deal of a lifetime
plead guilty to second-degree murder and
spend just
four to eight years in prison ratchford
thought the deal was a strong statement
about the state's weak
case i've never gotten such a low offer
he turned it down without batting an eye
i'm not going to plead guilty for
something i didn't do
you'd rather spend the rest of your life
in prison
mark carver walked calmly into court in
march
2011 carver's legal reckoning finally
arrives he's upbeat and feeling good
he's innocent so we're ready for our day
at trial
prosecutors build their case on three
key pieces of evidence
the first carver's proximity to the
crime scene
if he were less than a hundred yards
from where era was killed
prosecutors argue his claim that he
heard nothing that day
can't be true detectives testify about
an experiment they conducted on the
river
one detective stood where carver was
fishing another where era was
according to testimony they spoke in
normal voices
and could hear each other we had a lot
of issue with that
it was allowed to come in anyway the
second piece of evidence is that
touch dna found on era's car that
matched mark carver
prosecutors say it proves he touched the
car
and therefore must have been at the
crime scene and to drive that point home
the state has an ace in the hole a
moment from that interrogation where
carver
police testify gave himself away i
believe the words he used was a little
a little thing detective william terry
was also in the room during that
interrogation
he said that she
came up to him about right here the
gotcha moment was when the police
detective
was recounting the interrogation and
said that mark carver
knew that era was little that moment
is crucial carver had always said he had
never
seen era so prosecutors asked how could
he know how tall she was
unless he was lying the very first thing
i thought of was
they got you judge timothy kinkade
presided over carver's murder trial
that's what did it for you that was the
turning point of that trial for me
and with that the prosecution rested its
case
everyone was then sort of on the edge of
their chairs waiting for the defense
to present a case but to the shock of
carver's family
ratchford decides the state's case is so
weak
he will present no witnesses or evidence
for the defense
that could not explain how the crime
occurred
based on that the jury is not going to
be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt
they told us no way that they were going
to be convicted
they're wrong it takes the jury just a
few hours to return with a verdict
guilty of first degree murder when i
heard that verdict come down
i couldn't breathe i was like oh my god
they got it wrong judge kincaid
sentences carver to life in prison
but while his cell door slams shut
another investigation is just beginning
so let's
send you over to where era was
how much of the state's case really
holds water
tell her to yell stay with us
chris mumma gets people out of prison
her organization the north carolina
center on actual innocence
has had a hand in overturning 19
convictions
the point at which i really thought
maybe there was something to this case
was finding out that chris mumma
was involved and i thank you so much
muma takes on only two percent of the
clients who approach her
in 2013 she agreed to make mark carver's
fight
her own you rarely take these
you picked mark's case why the bottom
line is
is there a valid question mark and is
there
a way to get the answer mark's case met
all the criteria for us
and if anyone ever needed a sharp legal
mind in his corner it is mark carver
mumma argues he was easily manipulated
by police because of his limited
education is it hard for you to read and
write
yeah i can read a little bit but i can't
write
i'm literate you really have to go all
the way up the hill one of the first
problems mumma noticed in the case was
that the killers were she believes
physically incapable of killing there's
all kinds of things that don't fit
together
it doesn't fit together that two men who
are so limited in their physical ability
could do this to
a young vibrant strong girl
neal had a terrible heart condition his
family said he couldn't walk
20 feet without becoming winded mark
carver has
carpal tunnel in his hands he says he
can't even hold a plate for long without
dropping it
those years working in a cotton mill had
left carver disabled
he showed us the scars on his arms from
multiple surgeries
so how does that affect what you can do
and what you can't i can't grab nothing
hold it for a long time
can you button your your cuff back up
yeah just take me a minute
i'll get it a minute just have to give
me time okay
could these hands throttle someone to
death
and even if carver had killed era for
reasons
unknown why on earth would he stay at
the scene
it doesn't make sense who's going to
kill someone and then go right back to
fishing
mumma also points to this man who asked
us not to reveal his identity
he was on the catawba river that day and
even spoke to mark carver around
2pm in that crucial period after
eero was killed and before police
questioned mark carver
we talked about fishing and talked about
his family
we had a good conversation for about 30
35 minutes
but most importantly this man says he
didn't notice anything about carver that
suggested he had just been through a
homicidal struggle mr carver wasn't
muddy he wasn't wet
he had no scratches on him he was just
as normal as anybody could be normal
just sitting on the back of his suv
fishing mumma thinks this man's
testimony could have been important at
carver's trial
but he was never called to testify
instead the jury heard from that
detective
who described the sound experiment
police conducted on the river
trying to disprove carver's claim that
he heard nothing
we recreated that experiment for
ourselves
so let's send you okay over to where era
was
okay i'm gonna stay here where mark was
okay and we're gonna have you talk
remember on the stand the detective said
he spoke in a
normal voice and could still be heard
from the fishing hole
can you hear me can you hear me
i don't hear anything can you hear me
did they do it yet
elizabeth can you hear me tell her to
yell can you hear me
now i hear her can you hear me
i can hear you you cannot hear each
other talking at a normal voice you
can't
hear each other talking when you raise
your voice several levels and that's
what i did with you
you shouted as loud as you could i did
shot as loud as i could
of course the jurors never saw an
experiment like this
they just heard the detective's
testimony about it
and this isn't the only time mumma
thinks that the detective's testimony
may have misled the jury he said that
she was i believe the words he used was
a little
a little thing remember that bombshell
moment
when he described how carver seemed to
know era's height
even though he claimed never to have
seen her he said that she
came up to him about right here mumma
says you need to look at the actual
video which was never played in court
and understand that police were
interrogating a man with an iq
of 61 and had no idea what he was up
against
if you look at the full interrogation a
detective was asking mark
to tell him about era in fact it is the
detective
interrogating mark who calls ira little
and then
encourages him to describe her even
though he's already said
over and over he's never seen her
it is the detective who is telling mark
the detective stands up and says she
would have come about here on you right
and mark says yeah i guess and he said
well stand up and show me
y'all standing up look at each other but
she do look at you and knives yeah about
how i thought she was on youtube
and mark basically mimics what the
detective did
probably about about right there
was he being manipulated i think it was
manipulative
to present that at trial without
clarification
and i think it was error for the defense
to not
challenge that again jurors in the case
never
saw this video they just heard the
detective describe it
judge timothy kinkade who presided over
the case also found the detective's
trial testimony persuasive
but he'd never seen the tape either
this is the actual interrogation
what do you think after watching that
videotape of the interrogation
i think it was quite leading the
detective was using the language first
in other words
he was do you think that mark carver was
being led by the detectives and is
simple enough
that he would just echo whatever this
man was saying
i can't answer that i think it does put
a new light
on the whole thing what kind of light it
does make me
question whether or not mark carver
did it certainly i think that could have
created reasonable doubt
but what about that final and most
damning piece of evidence
the touch dna that seemed to place
carver
at the crime scene will you hear the
words dna match
that sounds like as close to a sure
thing as you can get
mumma says not so fast whatever you
think you know about the infallibility
of dna
think again is there another explanation
for how that dna got there
stay with us
now 2020 continues once again
elizabeth vargas
emergency found a body floating in
catawba river
in the hours after ira yarmolenko's body
was found
local news crews recorded this footage
of police processing the scene
it looks like they're all over it but
attorney chris mumma says
looks can be deceiving it was actually
two months later before the vehicle was
swabbed
why did the police wait two months
before swabbing that car for dna
it seems from the records that people
just lost track of who was doing what
lost track in a high profile murder case
i can't think of any reason why you
wouldn't swab a vehicle
immediately getting dna from a bodily
fluid like blood is nothing new
but in 2008 the ability to lift dna
from an object that had been merely
touched was cutting edge forensic
science
it was that technology that gave
detectives here the break they needed
those traces of mark carver's touch dna
on era's car
mark's dna was not found on anything
else
it was not found on the steering wheel
the key the ligatures around ms
yarmolenko's neck
her clothing the gear shift a seat
a front door was not found on any of
those and they were tested
what about under era's fingernails was
there any dna there
there were two profiles there was hers
which you would expect to find there and
but there also was another profile that
was unidentified
to this date police have not been able
to identify to whom that mystery dna
belongs
or explain why so little of mark
carver's or neil cassida's dna
was found at the crime scene wouldn't
his dna have been
all over era we're talking about a life
and death struggle here a death match
i would expect to see more of his dna on
her body
or on her clothing dr lawrence
kobalinski is a dna expert who has
testified in nearly 50 trials
he says most of all he would expect to
see carvers touch
dna on those ligatures around ira's neck
you would expect sufficient numbers of
cells
to be left behind the simplest
explanation
is that he did not touch those ligatures
and if it's possible that carver didn't
touch the ligatures
is it also possible he didn't actually
touch the car
most people think of dna only being able
to be in a place
if they specifically touch it and they
don't consider the fact
that someone else may have had contact
with them and then touch the car
there are two ways that dna can be
deposited on
an item of evidence one way is a direct
transfer investment i touch that did i
touch something and i
leave behind dna from my hands
the second possibility is an indirect
or secondary transfer where i
shake your hand and now i touch a
vehicle
and i transfer your dna onto that
vehicle
so how could carver's dna have been
transferred
remember he spoke to police that day on
the banks of the river
the officer who came over and took
mark's driver's license so he's holding
an item that has mark's dna on it and he
shook
mark's hand and look again at the crime
scene photos and video
mumma says it's clear some of the
officers were not wearing gloves
even while they were touching the car
they're touching the inside of the car
they're touching the outside of the car
they're touching the doors the handles
so it's
it's contaminated this officer even
appears to lean on the car door
and something else is startling while
reviewing the video shot at the crime
scene that day we came across
this footage it appears to show an
officer
rubbing the exact area of ira
yarmolenko's car
where mark carver's touched dna was
found
and as you can see he's not wearing
gloves
were any of the officers who were
touching that car did any of them have
their dna tested
there's no record of any dna being taken
from any officer who was at the scene
at carver's trial secondary transfer of
his touch dna was dismissed as highly
unlikely
but it has happened before in 2012
a millionaire from california was
murdered in his home
forensic experts found dna on his
fingernails
that they were able to link to 26 year
old lucas anderson
there was only one problem anderson had
an airtight alibi
at the time of the murder he was in the
hospital being treated for severe
intoxication
it turns out the same two paramedics
that scooped up anderson who was living
on the streets
were at the murder scene a short time
later once
prosecutors realized anderson's dna had
been transferred to the crime scene by
paramedics
he was finally cleared if you're not
careful
you're going to end up putting somebody
at a crime scene who was never there
so why didn't carver's original defense
attorney call a dna expert
to explain how that might have happened
here sometimes you're open in pandora's
box do you think you're putting in a lot
of good evidence
but the kids are around about you then
the dna expert is not going to help you
ratchford's decisions continue to haunt
mark's family
robin have you spoken to mark in prison
we speak to him twice a week and
go and visit when we can he just wants
to come home
just imagine living every day in there
knowing you didn't do it
but if mark carver didn't kill ira
yarmolenko
who did did she travel from charlotte by
herself
or someone else in the car an inmate
wrote a letter said that he had killed
erie yamalenko
the hunt for other suspects next
ever since the day 20 year old ira
yarmolenko's bright life
was cut short mark carver's answers have
been the same
mark did you kill era no
did you strangle that young woman no
i didn't even see her there's some
saying about uh how eli has a short life
but the truth
lives on forever he's never wavered what
does that tell you
tells me he's telling the truth and if
mark carver is telling the truth
that means a killer is still on the
loose
someone who can solve the puzzle of that
crime scene on the catawba river
why for example were there three
ligatures around
ira's neck it's definitely overkill the
hoodie string
was probably enough to cut off the air
supply in her neck
that alone would have killed her i think
that alone would have killed her the
other two
to me almost seemed uh decorative
the blue ribbon almost like a bow
perhaps it was a crime of passion at one
point
investigators entertained the theory
that era knew her keller
could it have been a fellow student who
may have been stalking her
or a customer from that coffee house
where she worked
who some said might have been obsessed
with her or someone who coerced era to
let them
into her car that day the question was
presented to me
did she travel from charlotte by herself
was there someone else in that car
remember investigators were never able
to enhance these surveillance images
enough to confirm if era was alone or
not
the footage was not good enough quality
where someone could tell whether there
was a person another person in the car
even in the front seat
backseat even if era was alone there was
no shortage of other suspects in the
area who might have committed a crime of
opportunity there were a lot of
construction workers
there's a lot of traffic a lot of people
traffic ample opportunity for some her
to come in contact with someone that was
totally unknown to her last but perhaps
most bizarre a confession that came
early in the case an
inmate in the mecklenburg county jail
the case of a murdered unc
charlotte student wrote a letter to one
of our local news anchors and said that
he had killed erie yarmolenko
police talked to the self-proclaimed
killer even tested his dna
but determined his confession was just a
strange way to meet a local celebrity
and they believe that he was infatuated
with the news anchor and saw this as a
way
of getting a chance to talk with her was
there any sign
that he chris mumma says the only way to
resolve the questions surrounding mark
carver's guilt
is for the district attorney to release
the dna evidence to be re-examined
the district attorney in this case has
opposed you
every step of the way yes
he has and and i've asked to sit down
with him i've asked to meet
i asked her why should i help you to get
somebody off
that i firmly believe is guilty
prosecutors in this case declined to
talk to us on camera but they have
steadfastly defended the touch dna
evidence
after all even if carver's was
inadvertently transferred to the car
his cousin neil cassidus was found there
too what are the odds of
two dna transfers happening there's
another way to look at this
if we do believe in secondary transfer
we have to start thinking about
secondary transfer of both
but carver is adamant his only crime is
being a gullible fisherman
in the wrong place at the wrong time why
do you think
police were so focused
on you because they just wanted when
somebody to take the route for it
and they didn't care who done it i think
they thought they were easy targets
because they were uneducated
they wasn't highly sophisticated they
were real so pretty poor
yeah pretty poor as of tonight there is
another
powerful voice suggesting carver's case
should get another look
someone that might surprise you the
trial judge
timothy kincaid part of a district
attorney's oath is to
do justice and if that's what justice
requires that's what you got to do
when we come back what happened just
yesterday that could set
mark carver free and what era's family
has to say about it
stay with us
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it's been nearly six years since mark
carver was convicted of ira yarmolenko's
murder
his original defense attorney stands by
his handling of the case
but has been haunted by it ever since
this is the one trial
in 20 years that i have lost sleepover
mark carver is innocent i would love to
get a second chance
a second chance for mark carver that's
what chris mumma hopes she can deliver
just yesterday she filed a motion
demanding mark carver receive
a new trial we will certainly be saying
that we thought that he had ineffective
assistance a council
that he should have had a forensic
expert of his own
testifying that they should have put the
videotape in what are the chances that
you're going to be successful
we've been around this block enough to
know it's not good to bet on it
so we're going to fight for him and
we're going to hope that the district
attorney will work with
us
it's a long process but i do believe the
truth will come out
and
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