ferguson. jerry trump, admitted he couldn't identify anyone at the crime scene and in a poignant moment told the court what he wished for now. >> i'd like to have forgiveness from ryany. >> both men could face perjury charges and their efforts might not even free ferguson. the missouri attorney general stands by the conviction. it's now up to a judge to decide if ryan ferguson's conviction should be thrown out. and if he will finally be reunited with the father who has never doubted him. >> erin more rart i is back with us this morning. this is a disturbing case. >> what's really odd is, it was disturbing to me seven years ago before the trial even happened. i never thought he would be convicted. i am not kidding. ryan ferguson was convicted on the word of a high school friend who originally started dreaming. this is a young man who had a lot of drug problems, he would have blackouts, he read about this case. two years later, he starts dreaming. he goes to the police thinking, okay, tell me did daye it or not? they're so excited about solving a case. you see him on the police videotape. he knows nothing about the case. by the time it comes to trial, he's the best wi

every since he was arrested at the age of 19, ryan ferguson said he was innocent of murder. today seven years after a jury found him guilty, he's waiting to hear whether a judge will throw out his conviction and possibly release him from prison. for the first time since he was convicted, ryan ferguson came face-to-face with the young man who convinced a jury they were both killers. only this time ryan's old friend wasn't in court testifying against him, now he was trying in the strangest turn of events to help ryan go free. >> i don't want to die knowing that i did the wrong thing. >> ryan had waited most of his adult life in prison to hear chuck erickson tell a far different version of what happened after they left the halloween party in 2001. >> what he said about being at the crime scene, me being at the crime scene was all false. he's a troubled man who had no idea what he did that night. >> that was the night after 2:00 a.m. when an editor of the columbia, missouri daily tribune was brutally assaulted and strangled in a newspaper parking lot. the crime went unsolved for