Evaristo Salas Jr.

And on top of that, they sent it back to Yakima County.

They granted me a reference hearing with subpoenaing these people in there.

Basically ordered them to have to come to testify if they can't get out of it or nothing.

Gave a timeline of when to do it.

They have to do that by September 1st.

And then once...

the judge hears all that on, they appointed a new judge in Yakima County to hear it.

And once that judge hears that he has to kind of develop a fact finding, uh, thing.

And then, and then forward that to the court of appeals, uh,

And then they're going to decide on whether to grant me a retrial or vacate the conviction.

Yeah.

And they said they'll provide them with lawyers if they need lawyers, if they can't pull them for themselves.

This is big because, like I said, that detective's been dodging us.

He has to sit there on the stand.

It's a little ironic if you think about it because now the wheels have turned to the other direction.

I can't imagine what he's going to say, but if he veers off, we have numerous different statements that he's given that

Of course, my lawyer's going to call him on all those things, you know, and he's going to be under oath, so he can't sit there and kind of say anything different than what he's already said or try to change this because then we can catch him in all these lies.

exactly and that's why he fought so hard not to be a part which is strange because in the last year when we basically asked the judge to order that the judge was like I'm not doing that he didn't even care like basically didn't even listen to us but the prosecutor's response was well he doesn't my client doesn't want to come which he was talking about the detective doesn't want to come and if he comes he won't speak unless he has a lawyer present which is

So I have the option to actually head to the Yakima County or have a Zoom meeting from here.

So I told the lawyer, I said, let me have it here because the transfer over there is just a big old hassle.