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To court and still not going to get sentenced, then they're going to actually schedule my sentencing hearing, maybe. hopefully. it's been very stressful, because i've been here almost eight months already. >> even if wallace succeeds in being resentenced, it's still not a guarantee he will ever go home. >> best case scenario, i get resentenced to at least, you know, 25 to life, and go back to prison. i don't know how many more years i would have to do on that sentence. i got over 20 years in. so maybe four more years? be out for parole. worst case, resentence me to life without again and i'd h...

A controlled substance. >> i came here to the united states 2000. i married my wife and she brought me over here. and because of drugs and now we're separated. my plan, when i get out, to get everything back. and i'm starting it here. >> how you starting it in here? >> be productive all the time. >> jiles wallace looks forward to regaining all he has lost after spending the past 21 years in jail and prison. he awaits a court hearing that could reverse his life without parole 70sens for a murder/robbery he was involved in at 17. like many proceedings in the criminal justice system, the process ...

17 years earlier, jiles wallace had to confront the same reality it was like, okay i got life without possibility of parole. never going to get out. what's the point? what's the point of trying to do good for? it's over with? >> wallace was sentenced to life without parole for murder. he wasn't the trigger man but at age 17 was involved in a robbery in which a victim was shot to death. he says with nothing to lose, his early years in prison are marked by gang activity and violence. one inmate even died after getting into a fight with him. the death was ruled to be unintentional and in self-def...

On opposite trajectories. wallace is back in jail after serving 20 years in prison for a resentencing hearing that might make him eligible for parole. the men appear to have other differences as well. >> he big brother and i'm the little brother. always pestering him. feel me taking him through hell and putting him through [ bleep ] hell. >> always want to debate. >> debate-ians? everything's a debate. >> what do you think about this? i tell him, it's a debate. >> because -- man -- >> you know what i think? why you asking me? >> and the debate can be on almost any topic. >> and if you're not -...

Should have a chance for rehabilitation, but it's nothing that's guaranteed. and even if they reduce your sentence to 25 to life, it's still not a guarantee you're ever going to get out, but there's a chance. >> my claim. >> ah -- >> wallace acknowledges his role in the crime that occurred at age 17. he was the only juvenile among five co-defendants all of whom were convicted and sentenced to prison as well. >> i was charged with murder/robbery, special circumstances, which means that i wasn't the trigger man but i went there to commit a robbery. somebody was murdered during the commission of ...