Most of these defendants could not afford private lawyers and depended on public defenders. For example, Joe Moore had two previous convictions and faced a maximum sentence of 90 years for selling three grams of cocaine. However, Moore begged his public defender to call Eliga Kelly to defend him. Moore claimed that Kelly saw him kick Coleman off his property. For some reason, his public defender never bothered to call Kelly to the stand or even question him in private. After all, Eliga Kelly was considered a key witness for the prosecution, but, because of that negligence, Moore was sentenced to 90 years. Unlike most criminal informants, Eliga Kelly refused to lie under oath and in a subsequent trial for a different defendant, the prosecutor called Kelly to the witness stand. Kelly contradicted Coleman's testimony by naming several defendants, including Joe Moore, to whom he had refused to sell drugs