Supporters gathered outside the courthouse on Tuesday, where an evidentiary hearing reexamining Pierre Rushing’s 2011 murder conviction took place. Supporters gathered outside the courthouse on Tuesday, where an evidentiary hearing reexamining Pierre Rushing’s 2011 murder conviction took place. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)Robert Green’s eyewitness account was central to Pierre Rushing’s conviction for first-degree murder 15 years ago. Outside the courthouse, the hearing drew supporters who framed Rushing’s case as another example of convictions built on a single, shaky eyewitness testimony. “Having one eyewitness to prove a fact in a murder case is a low burden to convict somebody for the rest of their life.”