I like to take this opportunity to let you know Efren, and your mother and friends I want you to know that we are praying for you and I was very happy that doing our Freedom March in Lansing you were represented by so many loving and caring people. Met wonderful people from TIME, people from Grand Rapids, Detroit and all over. Thanks to Alma Zavale and Maria Enriquez and son for all their help and hospitality shown to this Freedom March organization. Walter Swift , a recently exonerated former prisoner who was released after serving 27 years of incarceration, spoke at the event and discussed his struggle to prove his innocence. One member of the Lansing TIME Committee spoke at the event on Efrén's behalf, and a member of the Detroit TIME Committee was interviewed by WLNX-TV 6. Also Representatives from the Innocence Project: Professor Maria L. Mitchell, Amnesty International, Peace Education Center Mr. Rico , ACLU Representative from Lansing and other organizations were also in attendance and heartfelt thank you to all of them for supporting this event. Just being there gives us all the strength needed to move on in what you believe is right and what you need to do to have this right come true. It takes the voices of many people to be heard. We are in this all together. Although the March is over, we are planning to find other ways and means for the public to be informed about so many wrongful convictions here in Michigan and other states. We are hoping also for our son Dan that his appeal will bring justice to him.
Letters are being written on your behalf to the Governor of Michigan and requests forwarded to other friends to do the same. I hope this will be your year to regain your freedom and to be with your loved ones again.
Sincerely and thanks to all of you.
Antonio S. Armijo and
Ursula Barbara Armijo
Director of the 2009 Michigan Freedom March for the Wrongfully Convicted held on
June 27 2009 in 18 States Across our Country

i read this case history and I came to the conclusion that the prosecutors in this country are not interested in arresting the guilty parties. they want to just make an arrest period. this is something so flawed in our legal system. time after time we hear about cases where the D.A. 's investigation is so messy that as long as a convinction is made the case is closed. regarless of the right person being incarcerated or not. I believe the D.A. and Prosecution system is falling apart, what happened in the case of Efren Paredes, Jr. is a great example of the U.S. failing to provide "...JUSTICE FOR ALL". I support this cause. I hope to become more involved as well. My prayers will remain with Efren, his family and people working together to help him gain his freedom.

I am Torey Adamcik's dad, you can google his name. Torey is serving LWOP at 16 for a crime that he did not do.
Efren will be free.

Efren should have never been put in jail in the first place. i have faith he will get out of jail soon. but how do these people expect him to makeup all those years he lost.... yes he will be free but what will the people who knovicted him do to make these days up to him. i hope efren will be released soon and that he lives life to the fullest.

I hope you are able to get an appeal to his case soon I will get all of my friends to sign the petition as it is for a good cause to be in jail since the age of 15 is just not fair he has been there most of his life .......
may god blees Efren and all of his family for the long journey they have endured and what is left to travel