The judge in Patterson s second trial, John Morrisey, had allegedly fabricated evidence while working as a prosecutor on the trial of Paul Linscott. Currently Patterson is appealing for an evidentiary hearing to the Illinois Supreme Court, having exhausted his post-conviction appeals. If this hearing is granted he could be granted a new trial based on new evidence - lawyers are looking for a neighbor who reported seeing one of the victims at 3 p.m. the day of the murder, while Patterson s supposed confession says they were killed in the morning. Patterson is fully confident that if he keeps fighting he will soon be free, and then he says his battle against the racist and unjust system which put him on Death Row can begin in earnest . The legal system doesn t care anything about fair play or killing an innocent man, he said.
Society has to be outraged.