assistant district attorney says there may have been an injustice, and only will release them if they wear monitoring ankle bracelets. we can take this step that we are going to consent to the conditional vacating of the conviction for these two defendants and the condition being they wear the electronic monitoring bracelets. all that is left now is for the judge to make it official. the record will reflect the conditional vacater as to the conviction of glisson and watkins is granted and each defendant is released on their own recognizance. eric s friends and family and the news media are waiting for him outside.
do and expect me to accept it. i will fight to the end. i am a fighter, and i die on my feet and not on my knees. as the years passed eric took college courses in prison and learned about the law and the court denied all of his appeals. i don t have any appeals left. nothing. it was a lonely fight, and then in 2006, he met sister joanna chan in one of the prison s programs, the woman he calls grandma. it was a particular dark time. he would say, grandma, it s really hard. i told her, grandma, i just lost my last appeal and i don t know what i am going to do. and i say, eric, let s keep the faith and go and pray and we have many, many sisters praying with you. sister joanna offered more than prayers, and that s when
people around me, and i don t have any animosity for anybody, except for the people that raise strawberries and raise the prices. that s a crime? yeah. he has become my brother. it s his lawyer s assistant. they have been in business eight months now. eric says he loves it. a big pivotal point in my life. it gave me a lot of truth. on this day we had a little surprise for him. he has not seen sister joanna chan since he was released, the woman that put eric on a quest for freedom all those years ago. working together collectively oh, my god! oh, my god! oh, my god. grandma!
eyes, i seen a man who has integrity and a man who was honest. o malley s affidavit was enough for the bronx da to re-open the case and to get in front of a judge, but that would take time. two more months. but now at least eric had reason to hope, and in his cell he assembled a little photo gallery of others who had been exonerated. this is my wall of hope. everybody here has been unjustly convicted and freed. on august 5th, 2012, eric s lawyer goes to court. cross is joined by his assistant, and by now they have worked on eric s case for six years. i want to see him out. i told him the last time i went up to sing sing, i said i am not visiting you again. this is it. cross argues his case to the judge. my client has spent 17 years
rodriguez and gilbert vaga. eric felt he had evidence of who the killers were. it took me 16 or 17 years to get those through freedom of information. the district attorney had all the evidence to solve the crime from the beginning. he wrote a letter to the u.s. attorney detailing the information he found out about the sex, money, murder gang. it was a hail mary pass. in an amazing stroke of luck, his letter landed on this man s desk, a u.s. investigator for new york, john o malley. o malley made a personal trip to see eric in sing sing. immediately john o malley just stood up and asked me, did you write this letter? i said, yes. he shook my hand and said, i am sorry. i said, sorry for what?