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Erics been transferred sing sing and is waiting in a holding cell in a bronx county courthouse. >> apparently -- >> its also been a long, painful road for lawyer peter cross. >> this is the one case that kept me up at night for six years because i knew we had to find like the one-armed man to get him out of jail. >> eric walked into the courtroom. >> numbers four and five on the calendar, eric glisson and kathy. >> standing next to him is kathy watkins. the only woman of the bronx six. >> like e...

Her if she refused. >> they put handcuffs on me and i was freaked out because who wants to be in handcuffers on jail like that? nobody. >> court transcripts show she even attempted suicide as the trial began, but because she didnt testify against eric, her claims all these years later wouldnt help him. >> to have any chance of having another day in court, eric knew hed made powerful evidence. evidence of actual innocence. he started thinking. if he and the other five co-defendants had nothing to...

♪ ♪ >> but unfortunately, for eric, a month later hes still behind bars. >> these people just dont want to let me go. they want to continue to hold me and torture me. the mental trauma im going through right now because of this, im wondering whether they may renege on this agreement. >> but as excruciating at these hours are, eric shares with us something beyond that wall of hope thats helped him wake up every morning. >> there is a bench by the water that each time i go to the barbershop an...

And i see a lot of these guys become complacent. >> thats easy to understand. >> theyre not going to convict me for something that i didnt do and expect me to accept it. im going to fight until the end. im a fighter. i die on my feet, not on my knees. >> as the years passed, eric took college courses give know by the prison, he learned about the law and fought his case. >> how did he get that evidence in his possession? >> the court denied all his appeals. >> i dont have any appeals left. nothin...

And we are by his side as he experiences all of it. >> oh! i see this in the magazine. tap dancing. >> erics first few hours of freedom are part exhilaration, part discovery. >> hello? hello? >> hes never actually used a cell phone. >> where is cynthia? hello? >> you have it upside-down, eric. >> hello? >> no, its upside-down. >> hmm? >> like this. >> oh, hello. can you hear me now? like the commercial? that was my first cell phone call. my first cell phone call. >> his first meal, lamb chops. >...

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