A lot has happened since our latest update on Fresno Army Specialist Richard Medina Torres on May 19th.

In an e-mail sent to at least 30 military officials, the U.S. State Department stated that on Tuesday, May 20th, Medina Torres presented his case in the Mexican federal court of appeals, and on Thursday, May 22nd, federal police again told their side of the story.

Now according to the state department, Medina Torres' story corroborated with that of the federal police and the Mexican attorney general said he'd give strong consideration to having the case back in the appeals court on Tuesday, May 27th.

The e-mail also stated the Medina Torres has secured sworn documents from his military colleagues, authorizing him to take his weapons from Fort Hood back home to Fresno. Those documents were allegedly translated into Spanish and delivered to the Mexican Federal Court of Appeals on Friday, May 23rd.

For Iraq war vet, Richard medina Torres, it's been a long and confusing last five weeks.

Just last Tuesday, May 20th, when he appeared in front a federal court judge in Juarez, Mexico, he was informed that his appeal process, which should have been completed on Monday, May 19th, would begin all over again on Monday of this week.

Gloria medina: "Its like a rollercoaster ride, it's like you're clinching your stomach clinches when you're going over those hills and this is exactly what we're doing here."

But Tuesday, May 27th, just one day after the appeals process began… again, U.S. Consulate officials meet with the Mexican magistrate in the federal court of appeals.

His mother says after that meeting, a U.S. Consulate official dropped by Richard’s prison cell to tell him what the judge had decided to do next.

Gloria Medina: "He said that he would give you a fair and quick decision, so in ten days you're going to be knowing. Then he said it'll take one or two days to process you out. So then my son says, it sounds like I’m getting out of prison. And he said it sounds like it, huh? And that's where he left it. He didn't say yes, he didn't say no."

Congressman George Radanovich, (R) Mariposa: "If that's not the case then we begin to put up pressure to let this guy go. I think that's when we go to the administration and we will use any avenue that we have available to us to make this happen."

Congressman George Radanovich has been monitoring the soldier's case for the past few weeks now, along with military officials from all over the country.

Radanovich: "The support for him and his family here in his plight and his family here in Fresno is very great. We wanna see this thing through and get him out of there just as quickly as we can."

But he says, it's important to give the Mexican courts a reasonable amount of time to work through their judicial process before any new measures can be taken.

Radanovich: "We're set to ramp up our pressure on the country to get this veteran home."

Something Gloria Medina feels will happen soon.

Gloria Medina: "I feel like now they're really believing his story and that they have nothing more to hold him on."

His mother says U.S. Army officials have now cancelled her son's deployment orders to Honduras and now want him to report back to fort hood, if and when he's released from prison.

Click on the video link to watch Preston Phillips’ exclusive report.