He offered no regrets, noting that he was not involved in the original case.
The Nebraska attorney general's office assembled a task force to follow up on the leads in the original case files.
There are a considerable number of new points of evidence or evidence of flaws in the original case, so we're cautiously optimistic," Claire Blackman said.
In the original case, my father had been arrested and held behind bars for six months in 2001, for the most part in solitary confinement.
"While Mr. Libby was involved in the original case concerning Mr. Rich, he was in no way, shape, manner or form involved in the pardon," Mr. Fleischer said.
Another suspect, Ronnie Lott, whom Ms. Gilchrist had excluded as a possible hair donor in the original case, was identified using DNA and indicted for the crime.
Prosecutors took no position regarding claims that a judge in the original case was improperly coached by a deputy district attorney who is now retired.
But the evidence found by Turkish prosecutors in the original case against Zarrab suggests that Erdoğan himself, or his family, could be tied to Zarrab's scheme.
The prosecutors in the original case chose not to charge Allen following an investigation in the early 1990s and she is now legally too old to charge Allen.
K. Craig Wildfang, a lawyer with Robins Kaplan, who had represented the merchants in the original case, declined to comment on the lawyer fees.
Mr. Davis's supporters also reached out to the prosecutor in the original case and asked him to persuade the original judge to rescind the death order.
