Evaristo Salas Jr.

I'll kind of lose my spot, my job here and even my room or my cell.

And that county jail is horrible.

So it's like, yeah.

Yeah, no, screw that.

Yeah, I think that's the case.

I might be able to request, maybe be able to make a statement right before the judge decides what you're going to do, whatever.

So I'm going to talk to my lawyers about that's the case.

I'm definitely going to try to speak, you know, if they allow me to.

I'm not sure if they will, though.

Well, I think that was me and my lawyers spoke about it, too.

My lawyers, like, they never do that.

Yeah.

But my lawyers, like, I'm assuming they did that because you've already been in prison for over 27 years, you know what I mean?

I mean...

how long are they going to drag this out?

The fact that the court of appeals retained jurisdiction over the case is big, too, because they never do that.

They usually allow the trial judge to decide, and then they specifically stated that they're supposed to send that fact-finding information to the court of appeals, and then the court of appeals is going to decide

on whether they keep the conviction.

Yeah, I mean, that was like the extra thing that they added on.

That's what we were hoping for.