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Friends. people from the neighborhood. >> including a couple of brothers, old friends from the neighborhood who she remembered did not turn out so well. >> tommy and ray. they went to prison in fact for murder. mary followed the case way back then in 1987 and remembers just how she felt when she were found guilty. >> i was shocked. you know, i was shocked to hear that. i thought no way. >> did it sound like them to you? >> no. >> anyway, there she was thinking about them again fondly so she wrot...

Section in court. >> we just wanted to be there for them. >> he would decide if the new evidence merited a new trial. >> finally tommy and ray filed into court. the brothers who have day one insisted they were innocent whose family never stopped believing him and looking like just like what they were. survivors of a quarter century in prison. >> it was our life. if he didnt believe what he was hearing he were going right back. >> there was never no more relief. >> this was it. this was it for su...

Then you have the prosecutors office saying yeah, right. kind of like, we still think theyre guilty. >> in 2016, michigan lawmakers passed the wrongful imprisonment compensation act calling for the state to pay exonerated prisoners $50,000 for every year spent behind bars. the hire brothers have sued the state for just over $1.2 million each. the michigan attorney generals office told us the matter is under careful review but said it could not comment further on pending litigation. for now, tomm...