Edit Audio. Hi all. As promised, we're back to give you an update on Sandy. And actually,

this is an update we thought we would be putting out over a week ago. On July 10th, I received an

email at 6 a.m. from one of Sandy's attorneys, that they were on their way to get Sandy out of prison.

All day, our team scrambled to get an episode ready to announce her release.

And then we waited. A day, two days, a week, and Sandy was still in prison.

It turns out the Attorney General's office had called the Chilicothe Correctional Center to interfere with her release.

In the last episode, we shared the judge's historic decision to overturn Sandy's murder conviction.

Because of this order, we naively expected Sandy to get out of prison shortly after.

I mean, ideally that's what should happen.

This big confetti moment when the wrongfully accused walks out of prison and hugs their family.

Well, that's obviously not what happened.

Despite Judge Horstman finding Sandra actually innocent of the crime,

Sandy was caught in legal limbo

as the Attorney General's office

fought to keep her behind bars.

Well, today, on July 19th,

over a month after Judge Horstman's decision,

Sandy walked out of the Chilicothe Correctional Center.

... the Correctional Center.

Let's back up.

Weeks ago on June 14th, Judge Horsman ruled that Sandy was innocent, that she was a victim of manifest injustice, and that the evidence pointing to Michael Holman as the perpetrator of the crime

was so objective that, quote, no reasonable juror would find Ms. Hemme guilty, unquote.

...