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UNCOVERED: Glynn simmons - Caught on Camera

Man Wrongfully Imprisoned For 48 Years Receives .15M Settlement

Edmond, Oklahoma settles for .15 million with Glynn Simmons, wrongfully imprisoned for 48 years.

Exonerated death row inmate who spent nearly 50 years in prison is awarded $7m compensation

Glynn Ray Simmons, who was held in prison for more than 48 years, served the longest sentence out of any exoneree on record

The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2024

Thursday briefing: Could the ‘uncommitted vote’ over Gaza cost Joe Biden at the polls?

In today’s newsletter: What the results in Michigan may mean for the Democratic party’s prospects in the US election

The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024

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I spent 48 years in prison for a murder I didn’t commit. Here’s how I fought my way to freedom

Glynn Simmons was released last year after almost half a century behind bars. Now 70, he describes his torment and terror as he battled to overturn one of the worst miscarriages of justice in US history

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024

Brickbat: Time Gone By

Glynn Simmons spent 48 years in an Oklahoma prison for the murder of a liquor store clerk killed during a robbery. But a judge ordered him freed last year, and, in a separate proceeding, declared him to be "actually innocent." His lawyers said detectives withheld a report saying that an…

Reason · Feb 16, 2024

Chicago man exonerated in 2011 murder case where legally blind eyewitness gave testimony

A Chicago man who was exonerated of murder has been released from prison after more than 12 years

The Independent UK · Dec 22, 2023

An Oklahoma judge ruled a man who spent 48 years in prison for murder is innocent

Glynn Simmons, 71, was released in July after prosecutors agreed that key evidence in his case was not turned over to his defense lawyers. He is the longest imprisoned U.S. inmate to be exonerated.

WEKU · Dec 20, 2023

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Oklahoma judge rules a man who wrongfully spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder is innocent

An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder, the longest serving inmate to be declared innocent of the crime

The Independent UK · Dec 20, 2023

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