I'm very disappointed. I thought we had the better of the arguments. Burton had not. For that reason, Redding was hesitant to put Porter and Giezwa Andersen on the stand, even though both had received much lighter sentences when they agreed to testify against Burton. Giezwa Anderson is serving a five-year sentence for robbery and burglary.
Porter is free after serving eight months of a twelve-month sentence for robbery.
Additionally, the defense dismantled the credibility of key prosecution witness Rachel Kemptner. She testified that Burton repeatedly bragged of raping the women in the days following the attack. Her fragmented and sometimes inconsistent testimony contradicted police accounts of the day Porter was arrested in her St. Paul apartment. We sort of had to read between the lines. In that interview, Hameister proffered a confession that Burton made to her during a December 1996 telephone conversation in which he admitted he was the rapist.