Henry returns and reports Andy's investigation to Hardy.

"......"

"The judge who tried Andy's case retired last year. In court, Andy kept claiming that he was innocent and did not kill his wife. The court did not find his gun. In fact, the evidence was not sufficient, but the judge sentenced Andy to two life sentences for murder."

"Andy was sent to Shawshank Prison. He never stopped seeking justice. He wrote a letter to the court every month to state his grievances. He did this without interruption for the past seven years."

"Boss, we found the thief's gun. It's a Colt revolver that has changed hands three times. I found it in the utility room of the last person who had it."

Henry said as he placed a paper bag in front of Hardy.

Hardy picked up the paper bag and poured out the gun inside. It was a very ordinary revolver, worth only twenty or thirty dollars, but it was this gun that ruined a banker's life.

"Anything else?" Hardy asked.

Henry thought for a moment and said with a smile, "Andy loved writing letters. In addition to writing to the court that sentenced him, he also wrote to the state government. He felt that the prison library had too few books, so he wrote a letter every month. Finally, a batch of books and records arrived, which helped Andy become more popular in prison, and he was rarely bullied afterwards."

Hardy remembered that there was indeed such a plot in the movie.

"Henry, find a lawyer and apply for a retrial through normal procedures. Send Elmo, the murderer, to surrender himself. You should follow up on this matter in person and report to me anytime there is any development." Hardy said.

......

shawshank prison.

A car stopped at the prison gate.

Henry and Lawyer Bob got out of the car.

Lawyer Bob is in his forties and has been working in the legal profession for more than 20 years. He has rich experience. When Henry approached him and asked him to overturn Andy's case, he was a little hesitant. He naturally knew that the banker's wife-murder case had caused a sensation at the time.

He was a little hesitant at first because overturning a court ruling is much more difficult than winning a lawsuit.

But in the end he was moved by the lawyer's fee offered by Henry.

Attorney Bob took out the meeting form and handed it to the prison guard at the door. The prison guard looked at the two people and let them in. After several checks, the two people came to the meeting room.

Andy was surprised when the prison guard informed Andy that a lawyer wanted to see him.

I walked into the meeting room with doubts.

"Who are you?" Andy asked in surprise.

Lawyer Bob smiled and said, "I'm Lawyer Bob, this is Mr. Henry, we're here for Mr. Andy's case."

Andy was excited when he heard this.

"Are you sent by the state court?!"

His first thought was that the appeal letters he wrote to the court every month had worked, and the court sent someone to prepare a re-examination of his case.

Bob shook his head. "I came here on behalf of Mr. Hardy."

"Mr. Hardy?"

Andy muttered to himself, trying to search his memory, but in the end he couldn't figure out who Jon Hardy was.

"Mr. Hardy is my boss," Henry said.

"I don't seem to know Mr. Hardy." Andy asked puzzledly.

Henry smiled and said, "When you walk out of prison, you will know who Mr. Hardy is. Now let's talk about you first."

"Oh, all right."

Bob took out his lawyer's license and a power of attorney. "Mr. Andy, this is a power of attorney. Are you willing to let me represent you in your case and apply for a retrial by the court?"

Andy picked up the lawyer's license and power of attorney, his hands shaking slightly.

Years of anticipation,

It seems that there is finally light at the end of the tunnel.

Although he didn't know who Mr. Hardy was.

But he was unwilling to give up as long as there was a glimmer of hope.

After looking at the lawyer's license and power of attorney, Andy found no problem. He then looked at Henry and said, "I want to ask, why did Mr. Hardy want to help me?"

"Maybe, it's because of justice!" Henry said.

In fact, Henry didn't understand the boss's idea and why he suddenly wanted to help Andy, but it didn't matter. To him, there was no doubt about the boss's orders, so he just had to execute them.

Andy signed the power of attorney, picked it up and handed it over with both hands. This power of attorney was extremely important to him.

His seven years of anticipation finally had a new hope.

After Lawyer Bob and Henry left, Andy was taken back to the prison. Captain Haley saw Andy being sent back and called the prison guard in charge of the interview room.

"Who did Andy meet just now and what did they talk about?" Captain Haley asked.

"A lawyer met Andy and said that someone had asked the lawyer to ask the court to re-examine his case and asked Andy to sign a power of attorney," said the prison guard.

Haley frowned.

Re-examination of the case was not good news for him.

Haley asked his men to keep an eye on the scene and went to the warden's office. Warden Sam Norton was fiddling with an antique music box. Collecting music boxes was his hobby.

Captain Haley closed the door and lowered his voice slightly, "Warden, a lawyer just found Andy and said someone wants to help him appeal to the state court and review his case."

The warden stopped playing the music box.

Look up at Haley, "Do you know who helped him?"

"I don't know, just a lawyer and an assistant came." Captain Haley said.

The warden's face darkened.

Before Andy went to prison, he was a banker who was proficient in finance and accounting. After Sam Norton knew his abilities, he asked him to help him with false accounting, money laundering and tax evasion.

Andy was sentenced to two life sentences. Under normal circumstances, he would never walk out of prison alive. It could be said that it was safe to use him to pay the bills for himself, but now an unexpected situation occurred that caught him off guard. If Andy really got out of prison, he would be finished.

The first thought in his mind was to kill Andy.

Avoid all future troubles.

But we haven't reached that stage yet.

Andy might not be able to get away with it. It is not easy to overturn the state court's verdict. Not even one out of a thousand cases might be successful.

Andy is very capable and he doesn't want to lose such a good helper.

"Haley, keep an eye on Andy. Report to me if anything develops," the warden said in a deep voice.

"Good, Warden."

Captain Haley went out, and the warden put down the music box and walked to the office window. In the distance was the spacious prison playground. His office overlooked everything. The prisoners gathered there, chatting or playing games.

The warden gritted his teeth, a sinister expression on his face, "I will not let you leave Shawshank alive."

......

The August sun makes people sweat.

But people are still willing to walk out of the cells and enjoy the rare time of the day to breathe free air.

Andy came to the playground.

He walked over to sit next to old Red, who looked at him and asked, "Who is here to visit? Is it your relative?"

Andy shook his head.

"A lawyer."

Andy told Red what happened. Red was very surprised. "How could someone help you for no reason? You really don't know Mr. Hardy? Could he be an old acquaintance of yours?"

"No, I thought about everyone I know, and I'm sure I don't know a Mr. Hardy," said Andy.

Red stroked his chin. "That's very strange, but it's good news for you anyway. You write to the state court every month, all you want is a chance to overturn the verdict. Now someone is helping you. You should feel lucky."

"Red, I'm actually very excited right now, more excited than ever before, but I'm just trying my best to suppress myself."

Andy couldn't help but smile after he finished speaking.

Just two days after Andy signed the power of attorney, something happened in the outside world. A thief named Elmo voluntarily surrendered himself to the police station and admitted that he had killed a man and a woman in a villa on a certain street seven years ago.

Why did Elmo turn himself in?

Because he didn't want to live a life worse than death anymore.

He was threatened.

Either he has to endure this life or turn himself in and take responsibility. Elmo has been to prison three times and is no stranger to prison.

Although you lose your freedom in prison, you can still live a normal life, eat, sleep and sunbathe. As long as you don't offend the prison guards and the prison bosses, life is actually not bad.

But here,

They have to endure hunger every day, be whipped every two days, and have their wounds rubbed with salt. Those people are not human beings at all, and they enjoy torturing them.

When Elmo heard Big Ivan say that he would have to endure this kind of life forever, he collapsed. He would rather be in prison for the rest of his life than live like this.

He was afraid that he would not be able to hold on for long and would be beaten to death by them.

As the saying goes, every evildoer will be punished by his own evildoer.

Elmo committed murder.

But in his heart, people like Big Ivan were demons, and he was afraid of them from the bottom of his heart.

After the police examined the interrogation records, they discovered that the case had been sentenced seven years ago, and the murderer identified by the court was the woman's husband, a banker.

The matter was reported to the police chief, who was also very cautious.

"I knew about the case back then. The banker had always denied that he had committed the murder. I never expected that seven years later, the real murderer would turn himself in."

"Report it to the court. They should know about this."

The case was reported to the state court. After the current state court chief justice learned of this incident, he immediately had the case files retrieved and found that the circumstances of the case described by the thief were exactly the same as those of the crime that occurred that year.

Especially for some parts that were not clearly explained at the time, the answers were all found out after reading the thief's confession.

"The judge who tried the case was Howard, who has since retired. There were some disputes in the case when the case was tried. The banker never admitted to killing his wife and wrote letters to the court every month for many years to complain without interruption."

"Now the real murderer has emerged, and it turns out that the trial was really wrong."

One of the judges looked at the Chief Justice and asked, "What do you think we should do now?"

The Chief Justice was silent for a while. "According to normal procedures, since someone made a mistake, someone needs to help him correct it."

This sentence is very subtle.

The responsibility has been passed on to retired Judge Hooper.

The very next day, a lawyer named Bob filed a complaint with the state court and presented Andy's power of attorney.

"I will defend Mr. Andy."

Within a few days, the media also knew about this incident. Andy's wife-murder case caused a sensation at the time, and now it was revealed that it was a wrongful conviction. The murderer turned himself in, and the newspapers began to report it extensively. In a short time, this incident became known to everyone.