after learning of ford's innocence, a.m. "marty" stroud iii, prosecutor for the caddo parish district attorney's office in the ford case, regrets his role in the conviction. he has stated that he believes ford had an unfair trial where key evidence was suppressed by both police and prosecutors and that ford's lawyers did not have the financial resources nor the criminal law experience to mount a proper defense. he feels that if he had done his job properly at the time, and all the evidence had been properly collected, "they would not have even been able to arrest glenn ford, let alone try him for the crime."