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>> griz stewed in jail for seven months, and then he wrote to prosecutor rob miller. >> he wrote a letter exaggerating how he committed the crime, but ultimately admitting to it saying ive been played by these two ladies. >> pretty soon griz was cutting a deal. >> arrangements were made for griz to confess the entire murder in exchange for the state not pursuing the death penalty. >> griz was specific. his mother and kelly had pushed him to do the killing. mom drove him to the scene, dropped him...

Charges against him in the denise raymond case, citing lack of evidence. so what evidence was there against him in the cab driver case? it was really pretty simple. there was a witness against him. her name? miriam tavares. tavares told the cops she looked out her window and saw it all, eric and the others, smack in the middle of the cab driver robbery that ended in murder. >> is it possible miriam saw you commit a crime? >> no. >> not any crime? >> i wasnt there. >> bad blood between you and mi...

Have believed that and decided to run with this and send them to jail for the rest of their lives on the basis of this garbage still shocks me today. >> all these years later, attorney cross knew his opinion of the detective work in this case wasnt going to free eric glisson or anyone else. >> i think the only kind of evidence thats going to sway a court is if we can point to who the real killers are. >> that was quite a lot to hope for. but from behind bars, eric glisson was already on the trai...

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 the evidence at their disposal to solve this crime from the beginning. >> so he wrote a letter to the u. s. attorney proclaiming his innocence and detailing the information hed found out about the sex, money, murder gang. it was a hail mary pass. in an amazing stroke of luck, erics lett...

Talking about details of both crimes that only the killers or the cops would know. >> tell me if you recognize your signature on that document. >> yeah, thats my signature. >> heres the problem. its a crime kathy now says she knew nothing about. >> i even told them i didnt see nothing like that. >> whats more, gomez says she could hardly read or write english. >> i couldnt read it. they just wanted me oh, you have to sign this. dont worry about it. you dont have nothing to do with this. >> kathy...

Me for something that i didnt do and just expect me to accept it. im going to fight to the end. im a fighter. i die on my feet, not on my knees. >> as the years passed, eric took college courses offered by the prison. he learned about the law and fought his case. >> how did he get that evidence in his possession? >> the courts denied all his appeals. >> i dont have any appeals left. nothing. >> it was a lonely fight and then in 2006, he met sister joanna chan in one of the prisons programs, the ...

>> im not going to say -- i didnt disbelieve him. its just im practicing law for a listening time. okay? >> and people lie. >> they certainly color the truth. this is a man who was convicted of murdering someone. so, of course, i approached it with some skepticism. >> but once cross learned the facts, he agreed to take erics case at no charge. representing a man who didnt seem hardened by prison but almost frightened. >> its terrifying because you can just be walking in the yard and then you cou...

Trip to the 43rd precinct? >> made two. again, came out saying we have nothing that fits that description. >> is there any conceivable reason why the police department wouldnt tell you the truth? >> well, i thought about that. >> forcelli says the answer might be simple. as far as the nypd was concerned, this homicide was solved. closed. >> the detective may have looked only in the open homicide drawer and never bothered to even look to see if there was anything other than an unsolved homicide t...

She didnt testify against eric, her claims all these years later wouldnt help him. to have any chance at having another day in court eric knew hed need powerful evidence. evidence of actual innocence. he started thinking, if he and the other five co-defendants had nothing to do with the two murders, then who did? after more than a decade of trying finally some of erics requests for documents in his case began trickling in. >> i came across one document which had my name, as well as my other co-d...