WATCH: Chris Tapp's attorney 'Victory! We have victory!'

IDAHO FALLS — John Thomas has been Christopher Tapp’s court appointed attorney for years. He has been fighting to get his client out of prison and believes Tapp is not responsible for the death of Angie Dodge.

Thomas agreed to speak with EastIdahoNews.com reporter Natalia Hepworth Tuesday afternoon about an agreement that will allow Tapp to walk free Wednesday.

Here’s a transcript of the interview.

Natalia Hepworth, EastIdahoNews.com: You’ve been working on this case for a really long time now, what does the possibility of Chris Tapp being released Wednesday mean for you?

John Thomas, Defense Attorney: It’s the commination of a lot of years of hard work and it means that someday we will get Chris Tapp out of prison and he will be a free man and that day is tomorrow, and so we are super excited about it.

The judge has kept the stipulation and he will read that at open court. Generally what’s going to happen is Chris Tapp is waiving his rights to appeal. He’s going to waive his rights to the post convictions that he has now. We’re going to withdraw all of those. The conviction for murder will stand. He’s been convicted of murder by a jury that will stand he will not allocute. He will not say that he was part of it, he will not say he was there. Just the conviction will stand. The rape conviction will be vacated and dismissed so he will not be a sex offender.

His sentence will be reduced from 30 years plus life in prison, down to 20 years and so he will hopefully be walking out of the courtroom a free man tomorrow. Worst case scenario they may have to take him back to the jail to process him but we’re certainly hoping that the judge will order him released immediately and that he’ll be able to walk out of the court room a free man.

Hepworth: Is this a re-sentencing hearing?

Thomas: What we’ve decided to call it is a re-sentencing. Basically Chris Tapp will be sentenced under the current post conviction petition that we have the judge has jurisdiction under that petition to visit the original conviction that was in the 1997 criminal case.

Hepworth: What has changed in the last month or so that has led to the potential for Chris to be let free?

Thomas: It hasn’t really been the last month. We’ve been getting evidence coming in over the last several years. A year and a half ago we had hand swabs tested from Angie Dodges hands. Back in 1996 they were never tested back the. We’ve recently had those tested. The test came back exactly how I thought it would come back the killers DNA is on there, no one else DNA is on there.... (Read more at EastIdahoNews.com)