Evaristo Salas Jr.

And then the third thing would be they grab me an evidential hearing, allow me to get a new judge, because that's what we ask for.

We ask for a vacation or vacating my conviction and remand for a new trial or grab me an evidential hearing so I can present all this evidence to a judge and then he can rule on the merits right there.

And so one of those three things can happen.

We're hoping that they'll vacate my conviction altogether.

My lawyer said that's the hope, but, you know, the courts might just be like, well, we don't want to go that far, you know, that kind of stuff.

And they might just grant me, you know, an evidential hearing with a new judge.

That would be a positive thing too, but then it would just kind of prolong the process.

Of us going through.

And so the course we'd like is them to vacate my conviction altogether.

Then they dismiss the charges against me and I'd be released within a few days of that decision.

And that's all it's kind of been.

Once we had the evidence and we presented it to the judges, we had to go through the process, which is a two- to three-year-long process.

And that's just the way the courts are set up.

And especially if they fight you on it, then it gets just longer because they can drag their feet.

There's all these little legal things that they can do to just drag it out.

And that's what they've been doing.

My fiancée, she sent me a thing where she wanted kind of to say, you know, have a little word in, you know, without kind of... Because she's kind of like really kind of private.

Basically, she doesn't want the attention taken away from me.

She just wants me on the video.

So if you don't mind, I could read it to you right now.