It’s been 27 years since Miami lawyer Benedict Kuehne and U.K. attorney Clive Stafford Smith began fighting for the release of a British citizen and former millionaire, jailed for a double murder he claims drug lord Pablo Escobar ordered back in Miami’s infamous ”cocaine cowboys” era.

And now, a glimmer of hope, as a federal magistrate judge is poised to decide whether to grant an evidentiary hearing reexamining his trial.