I felt the room go cold.

My home had gone into a company connected to the two people whose testimony put me in prison.

Even if the property sale never closed, their control of the paperwork could explain why they wanted me gone.

“What does it mean?” I asked.

“It means there are questions worth asking,” Russell replied.

“It may also mean financial liability.

None of this automatically reverses your conviction.”

He referred me to attorney Lena Ortiz, whose nonprofit legal clinic handled wrongful-conviction reviews and complex financial records.