Evaristo Salas Jr.

I mean, they have to actually use that warning to exonerate you.

So vacating my conviction would mean that they vacate the decision of the jury and the trial, and pretty much the conviction is gone.

And then they remand for a new trial.

And so this is up to the prosecution.

That's why I thought if they were to actually exonerate me, then I'd probably just be released.

And I don't know if they can even do that.

Their court kills couldn't even do that.

I think the only option they have is to vacate the conviction and remand for a new trial.

Because the whole system is based on your due process rights and all that kind of stuff, you know, and whether you had a...

a fair trial.

I mean, so it's a strange, you know, part of the American system, you know, so.

Yeah, our next step would be somehow, some way, you know, go for that exoneration in one form or another.

That's what really matters to me.

I mean, for them to just vacate my conviction, dismiss it.

they're not taking any responsibility for it.

It's just, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, you're out of here.

27 years is gone, I'll never get that back.

But just having it on record that I was exonerated, that would be my ultimate goal right there.

The exoneration would be acknowledged by their part, saying that we wrongfully convicted you.

It's just another step that would give me a certain amount of, I would say, justice.