Since the initial release of Patrick Persley's story, he has been fighting for his certificate of actual innocence.

Without it, he cannot file for state compensation or file a federal civil suit.

After so much delay, the state has been dragged kicking and screaming to a hearing for Patrick's certificate of actual innocence,

occurring August 27th, 2021.

The state has been desperately trying to throw Patrick's innocence into question to no avail,

and for no other reason than to not admit that they were wrong.

And thereby, great Patrick, the right to pursue the compensation that he so rightly deserves.

At 10pm on a snowy April 2nd, 1993, 22-year-old Andrew Asher and Becky George sat in a park car in front of her brothers' apartment on Silent Road in Rockford, Illinois.

A black man approached the car into 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 brothers' 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 Crabtree,

testimony she later accanted 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 with Jason Flom.

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Daniel Miller is a millennial con artist. I'm a social media influencer. Busted while recovering from Brazilian buttocks surgery.

She was yelling at the police for like getting her butt tissue out of joy when they were hand-guffing her.

She's got hundreds of victims. To me, that's not a con artist that just is a straight-up predator. And she just keeps getting away with it.

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