getting cleared of this case, that he even started paying people off to serve as fake witnesses for this fake story he had invented to try to sell to authorities, to get his conviction overturned. he was obsessed. he worked on it for years. it did not work. but he pressed at it at every level of the legal system. he pressed it all the way through the court system. by june of 1989, the federal appeals court, where he lived, in his region of the country, they ultimately affirmed that old conviction from 1972, and said yeah, this is not going to be overturned. there was a three-judge panel. he appealed to the full court in the 11th circuit, that they needed to reconsider it again. in august of 1989, 17 years after his initial conviction, the full court was like no, dude, your conviction stands, this is it, end of story. we realized you re obsessed with this, but you were rightly convicted, it stands. in response to that rejection
that. tole tell you what, if you can give us all this information, we ll be straight with you. i just need help, you know, period. our family s large, you know, and we been doin bad because my daddy s been gone. you give a tip. if it leads to a conviction, you get a chunk of money, and it s very enticing. perkins received over $10,000 in reward money immediately after the trial, and told by the police not to mention the payment of the reward to anybody. perkins saying he received $10,000 to receive this. the jury would have thought different about that. they wouldn t even count his testimony. gordon and michael filed their appeal in june of 1989, after 5 years of waiting, the court finally agreed to hear their case.
out lava, and for three years, residents of calla pa na live with on again, off again lava flows that once reach into their community, causing some isolated destruction. but then in june of 1989, the lava creeps to within a mile and a half of the village. and by the time the flow stops, the wahala visitor center just west of the town is burnt to the ground. no one is killed, but the fire at the visitors center serves as an ominous warning. one year later, the lava returns, this time, pushing farther than before. in april of 1990, the nightmare scenario begins to unfold. when the lava first came into kalapana, it was pretty ominous. it was pretty obvious that something serious was going on. the molten rock can reach temperatures of 2,000 degrees and eats everything in its path.
residents live with on again/off again lava flows that once reach into their community, causing some isolated destruction. but then in june of 1989, the lava creeps to within a mile and a half of the village. and by the time the flow stops, the wahala visitor center just west of the town is burnt to the ground. no one is killed, but the fire at the visitors center serves as an ominous warning. one year later, the lava returns, this time, pushing farther than before. in april of 1990, the nightmare scenario begins to unfold. when the lava first came into kalapana, it was pretty ominous. it was pretty serious that something serious was going on. the molten rock can reach temperatures of 2,000 degrees and eats everything in its path. but fortunately, the slow-moving
the reward to anybody. soon, perkins saying he received $10,000 to do this. the jury would have thought different about that. wasn t even count as his testimony. gordon and michael file their appeal in june of 1989. after five years of waiting, the court finally agreed to hear their case. we were able to prove beyond any doubt that, in fact, we wpes was promised to get paid. there was enough other evidence of john s guilt that the reward issue would not have made a difference. michael and gordon appealed the decision. to the u.s. district court, the fifth circuit court of appeals and finally, the u.s. supreme court. they all denied the appeal. matters became desperate. now we had no more appeals or