At 10pm on a snowy April 2, 1993, 22-year-old Andrew Asher and Becky George sat in a park

car in front of a brother's apartment on Silent Road in Rockford, Illinois.

A black man approached the car in a blue ski mask and a hoodie and he opened the driver's

side door announcing a stick-up.

While Becky fished around in her purse and tried to offer the gunman the $60 she had,

he shot Andrew Asher twice.

Becky ran to her brother's apartment to call the police and the two bullets and their

casings were retrieved from the crime scene and during the autopsy.

Through the use of incentivized eyewitness testimony, the coercion of a false confession

and grand jury testimony from Patrick Persley's girlfriend Samantha Kratri, testimony she

later recanted a trial, and conflicting and misleading ballistics expert testimony, Patrick

was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole.

With an epic appeals process that included Patrick getting a law change from prison in

order to get new ballistics testing done that would ultimately set him free, Patrick

Persley suffered for over 25 years for a crime he simply didn't commit.

In March 2017, Patrick's conviction was finally vacated and he was released on bond.

He was formally acquitted at his retrial on January 16, 2019.

This is wrongful conviction.

Hello America, Danielle Moody here.

I am an unapologetic black queer woman who isn't afraid to use my voice loudly and proudly

to stand up for what's right.

For the last five years, it has been my mission to ring a daily alarm and make America woke.

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