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Victor. i won. >> you seem to have come through this remarkably free of bitterness and anger or you're hiding it very well. >> well, i don't have any animosity against anybody at this point. except the people who grow strawberries and raised the prices. because the strawberry's the primary thing. >> because that's a crime. >> yeah, it is a crime. i mean -- >> eric had a business partner. someone he met when he he was still locked up. >> he's become my brother. >> it's charmain chester. his lawyer's assistant. >> i call him my bratty little brother and i'm the annoying older sister. >> they ope...

>> i guess so. >> whatever her motivation, the question is how reliable was she as a witness? all these years later eric finally had someone to take another look at miriam's story. attorney peter cross. >> there's no doubt this woman was lying. i went out to the crime scene and she could not possibly have seen what she said occurred. >> so what could miriam tavares really see? here's the problem with miriam's story. from that police video, we know this is where the cab came to rest. we also know the shooting happened a couple of car lengths back, sort of where that red suv is. we know a man in...

The prison. he learned about the law and fought his case. >> how did he get that evidence in his possession? >> the courts denied all his appeals. >> i don't have any appeals left. nothing. >> it was a lonely fight and then in 2006 he met sister joanna chan in one of the prison's programs, the woman he calls grandma. >> there's particular dark time. he would say, grandma, it's really hard. >> i told her grandma, i just lost my last appeal. i don't know what i'm going to do. >> i always say let's keep the faith and let's go and pray and i said, we have many, many sisters praying with you. >> si...

>> the first person i could think of was mr. peter cross. >> i trust her judgment. to me it was worth investing my time in. >> attorney peter cross agreed to at least see if there was some truth to eric's story. but there was still one problem. this is not the kind of law you normally practice. >> no, not at all. i'm a corporate lawyer. i do corporate litigation. i don't do criminal work. >> charmaine chester was peter's assistant. this was also new territory for her. >> out of the blue one day, i get this call. you have a collect call from an inmate at sing sing correctional facility. i'm lik...

Is only a few hundred yards from the prison but to eric it might as well be in china. how many times you look at that bench? >> every day. >> and thinking i'll be on there one day? >> i want to see what it looks like from that bench to the window because all i know is what it looks like from the window to the bench. >> finally, on october 22nd, 2012, four months after a federal investigator vouched for eric's innocence, his day in court has come. eric's been transferred from sing sing and is waiting in a holding cell in the bronx county courthouse. >> apparently the court officers were advised...