Sad to say, but I suspect that the TV lawyers are right about the recanted testimony not making the difference. And even if they are wrong, it may take years to get around to a retrial or anything. A conviction is a powerful thing in the system.
Don't know if Bibs is innocent or not. But the thought that even his stalking conviction could be based on BS, let alone this most recent one, is scary as hell.
I always think of that case where a father was half convinced that he had killed his own family after endless police questioning, only for it to have turned out to be a former female friend who had killed his wife and son in a forest for wacky reasons. It was one of the cases profiled on the show "Autopsy." Police and prosecutors can be very aggressive. It's not really as hard as people think to end up convicted of something you did not do. If Bibs is innocent, at least he never backed down from affirming the truth of his innocence no matter how much questioning or accusation came his way, or the pressure to make a plea.