her attorney, jim irvin, called her with the news. >> here i am thinking oh my gosh, could he have doneuld have did this. >> rick felt as though he had been sandbagged. >> i believe that if god fit just -- saw fit to have me go home i would go home. >> that, thought rick, was about all he had left. faith in god and a good lawyer. >> in my 22 or 23 years of being an appellate defense attorney, rick gagnon was only one of about two, possibly three people that i genuinely believed was innocent. >> that certainty would mean exactly nothing to an appeals judge unless bob and rick can come up with new evidence. then, in 2009, a year after his verdict, rick had an encounter in prison with yet another inmate. >> he was all excited about something. >> authorities in tennessee, the prisoner told rick, had just arrested someone for a home invasion there. >> he told me he said they identified the killer. >> that man's name was bruce hill. when tennessee authorities ran his name through the database they had a match to the mistry dna found at the parker crime scene. in 2011, a jury convicted him of