We have a three-step process.
We are a state agency. Our staff are state employees. They do the day-to-day operations.
Once there is some credible, verifiable evidence of innocence, it's the director's discretion as to whether that case moves forward to a hearing.
If it is moved forward to a hearing, that is heard by our commissioners.
The commissioners are appointed by our Supreme Court chief justice and our court of appeals chief judge, and there are members from different areas of the criminal justice system: a judge, prosecutor, criminal defence attorney, sheriff, victim advocate and some others. They hear the cases and, if they determine that there is sufficient evidence of factual innocence to merit judicial review, then they'll move the case forward to a three-judge panel.
That three-judge panel then hears the case and makes a final determination as to whether the convicted person has proven by clear and convincing evidence that they are, in fact, innocent.