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Inmate. >> at first it was all, you know, business as case is case, but by the time youve talked to somebody every day the personal things start to slip in. >> friendship. >> friendship. >> in the meantime, her boss was checking out erics claims of innocence. >> did you believe it at the beginning? >> im not going to say i didnt disbelieve him. ive been listening for a long time. >> and people lie. >> they certainly color the truth. this is a man who was convicted of murdering someone, so, of co...

The teller. >> i thank god every day for john omalley. when i looked in that mans eyes i seen a man who has integrity. i seen a man who was honest. >> omalleys affidavit was enough for the bronx d.a. to reopen 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. everyone here has been unjustly convicted and f...

>> hello? >> no, its upside down. >> huh? >> coming up, no prison bars. no prison guards and doors he can open himself. eric dmrglissons >> wow. >> and a reunion with a woman who helped him win it. >> oh, my god. >> when "a bronx tale" continues. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends. three jobs. youre like "nothing can replace brad!" then liberty mutual calls. and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car repl...

Sings visiting room. >> i have a family who i love and who loves me. my daughter, i need to get home to her and be a father. >> eric often shared his story with sister joanna. over time, she felt compelled to do something, anything for him, so she called the only lawyer she knew. >> the first person i could think of was mr. peter cross. >> i trust her judgment. to me it was worth investing my time in. >> attorney peter cross agreed to at least see if there was some truth to erics story, but this...

>> not any crime? >> wasnt there. >> bad blood between you and miriam? >> yes. bad blood. >> eric says he had a brief sexual relationship with miriam that did not end well. >> you have a fling with a girl and then you just cut her off abruptly and she may feel slighted. >> slightly enough to make you a murder suspect? >> i guess so. >> whatever her motivation, the question is how reliable was she as a witness? all these years later, eric finally had someone to take another look at miriams story,...

Oh, my! >> congratulations. >> thank you. oh, my gosh. >> they told me you were in china. >> i was. >> and there was one last thing we wanted to do with eric. remember that bench eric could see from inside? not too long ago we took him back there. we watched him finally make good on that promise to himself. to get that other view of the prison. this time from the outside.

Retain or possess, it will consume me. it will affect me as well as the people around me. i dont have animosity against anybody at this point except the people who grow strawberries and raise the prices. >> because thats a crime. >> it is a crime. >> eric has a business partner, someone he met when he was still locked up. >> hes become my brother. >> its charmaine. >> im the annoying older sister. >> theyve been in business eight months now. eric says he loves it. >> big, pivotal point in my lif...

Phone minutes after the shooting. the numbers called traced back to relatives of two sex, money, murder gang members named jose rodriguez and gilbert vega. eric believed he finally had evidence showing who the real killers were. >> it took me 16, 17 years to get those through freedom of information. >> they were never provided to the defense? >> no. it turns out that the police and the district attorney had all of the evidence at their disposal to solve this crime from the beginning. >> so he wr...

>> its like jumping up out of a coffin and walking, being read your last rites and all of a sudden a miracle happens, some doctor that just comes, walks in the room, and knows exactly how to resuscitate you and youre back living again, youre back out in society wondering, you know, will they accept you. yeah, you see? >> on his first night of freedom, erics lawyer treats him to a hotel room. >> i have a key thats a plastic card. >> there we go. >> wow. oh, this is excellent. holy. wow. this has ...

>> eric was on to an important lead, sex, money murder and even veteran cops knew that name means danger. >> 1997, october, sex, money, murder became my assignment. >> pete was assigned to take down the gang. >> this was all sex, money, murder territory? >> yeah. were in the heart of it. >> while forcelli there was a cab driver that was killed in the vicinity. >> he went to the 43rd precinct in the south side of bronx to see if there was any truth to the story. >> walked in the precinct and went...