Blaine Alexander

Susan assured her daughter it wasn't over.

I knew one day I'd be leaving.

Because I knew one day the truth would come out.

I knew I'd be going home.

I just didn't know when.

She found a new lawyer to mount an appeal.

Defense attorney Jen Hyman was fresh out of law school when she took Susan's case.

Hyman scrutinized every part of the case, the investigation, the evidence, testimony, even the jurors.

So you just ran some of the names through Google just to see what popped up?

Yeah.

She found something, and it was big.

So you see this information and you knew that you had found something major?

Absolutely, yes.

The juror was a felon.

And while there is a process to restore rights to serve on a jury, that had not happened.

And no one from the court or the district attorney's office caught it.

That was grounds to overturn Susan's conviction.

Should your office be taking a closer look, double-checking things like this when you're seating a jury?

An important fix, but too late for Jake's family.

And the mistake was costly.