GUN WAS EVIDENCE IN A
EQUITY BUT TO GET BACK HE HAS
TO PAY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
THE DEBATE: WHO SHOULD PAY THE
BILL FOR CHANGE TOMORROW
MORNING RICK WERSHE WILL
FINALLY FACE THE MICHIGAN
REPOLL PAROLE BOARD TO START
HIS CASE FOR FREEDOM.
IN THE 80S, WHERE SHE WAS KNOWN
AS WHITE GRAY WHITE BOY RICK.
>> IS AN IMAGE HE HAS BEEN TRY
TO SHAKE CONVINCING A PAROLE
REAL.
HE SPOKE EXCLUSIVELYTO THE
STRATEGY.
>> KEVIN DIETZ IS LIVE AT THE
COTTON CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN
WHERE THE HEARING WILL BE HELD
IN THE MORNING.
>>Reporter: IT IS AND RI
EXTREME ANXIOUS ABOUTHIS
PAST COUPLE DAYS.
HIS STRATEGY TOMORROW IS TO
KEEP IT SIMPLE, TO ACCEPT
HE COMMITTED,OLOGIZED FOR
THEM, AND PROMISE NOT TO COMMIT
ANY CRIMES IN THFUTURE.
IT WAS NEARLY 3 DECADES AGO IN
YOUNG RICK WERSHE POINTED
FILED ON DRUG CHARGES AND LOSS.
A HAS CHANGED ANY 39 YEARS
BEHIND BARS.
NOW IS HOURS BEFORE HIS BEST
CHANCE AT FREEDOM, WERSHE IS
NERVOUS.
>> A LOT OF SLEEPLESS NIGH.
CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC.
IT'S A BIG DAY.
I MEAN, 30 YEARS AND I HAVE A
CHANCE TO GET MY LIFE BACK.
LEAST.
>>Reporter: WERSHE WILL MAKE
QUESTIONS FROM TWO PAROLE BOARD
MEMS AND THEN AN ATTORNEY FROM
TRYING TO CONVINCE THEM HE IS
PNO LONGER A DANGER TO SOCIETY.
>> I AM A FEW YEARS SHY OF 50.
BEEN INCARCERATED.
>>Reporter: 'S ATTORNEY WILL
TELL THE BOARD IS TRYING TO
FREE MICHIGAN'S LONGEST-SERVING
>> ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
HE DID.
THE PROPORTIONALITY IS STARTING
TOOVERWHELM.
>>Reporter: AT 14 WERSHE
INFORMANT.
ILLEGALLY.
AT 17 HE WAS BUSTED.
IN PRISON HE HELPED THE FBI
BOSTON OVER A DOZEN PEOPLE,
INCLUDING FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF
THE MAYOR COMMON YOUNG AND POST
HOMICIDE BOSS HILL.
WERSHE TELLS ME HIS DRUG DAYS
ARE OVER AND WHITE BOY RICK NO
LONGER EXISTS.
THAT THE MEDIA MADE ME OUT TO
BE 30 YEARS AGO.
I WAS BASICALLY TAUGHT THIS
LIFESTYLE WHEN I WAS A KID, AND
I SHOULDN'T HAVE WENT DOWN THE
PATH BUT I DID.
I'M A DANGER TO ANE IN
>>Reporter: WERSHE'S LAST
PAROLE HEARING IS 14 YEARS AGO.
FBI AGENTS AND CELEBRITY KID
WERSHE.
MIKE DUGAN WHO WAS THEN
PROSECUTED WROTE A LETTER
UP.
WERSHE WAS A MOST FREED IN 2015
AND SEPARATE, BUT PROSECUTED TO
MORE THE OBJECTIVE.
TODAY NO OFFICIAL IS ARGUING
AGAINST HIS RELEASE, GIVING THE
NOW 47-YEAR-OLD MAN HIS BEST
AFTER MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY IS
STARRING IN A MOVIE ABOUT
WERSHE'S LIFBUT THIS TIME
CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS AT THE
PAROLE BORD HEARING, NOTICE
ONLY ABOUT WERSHE BEING STUCK
PEOPLE.
HE WILL SIMPLY ACCEPT
RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT HE'S
DONE AND THINK THOSE WILLING TO
>> I DIDN'T PEOPLE REALLY
CARED BUT THERE ARE SO MANY
DO CARE AND THINK I DESERVE A
SECOND CHANCE, AND WANT TO HELP
ME SUCCEED IN THE SECOND PART
>>Reporter: IN THE AUDIENCE
TOMORROW, SUPPORTI RICK
WERSHE WILL BE TWO FBI AGENTS,
A HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER AND
SEVERAL FAMILY AND FRIENDS, ALL
HERE TO VOUCH FOR THE
COMMERCIALLY IF HE IS TO BE
PAROLED.
I TALKED TO RICK TRAINER'S MOM
WHO WILL BE HERE TOMORROW AND
HOW MUCH SHE MISSES HER SON AND
THAT SHE IS PRAYING FOR HIS
RELEASE.
>> YOU CAN COUNT ON LOCAL 4
WERSHE IS HEARING TOMORROW