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But it will be by the 13th i think. >> are you serious? >> do you believe that? >> well, it hasnt set in yet. >> i know. >> the initial shock. >> i know. >> all the fighting we have done over these years. >> yeah. >> um -- i dont know what to say right now. >> 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. you know, the mental trauma im going through right now because of this, im wonde...

>> i thank god every day for john omalley. when i looked in that mans eyes, you know, i see 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. >> this is my wall of hope. everyone here has been unjustly convicted and freed. >> on august 5th, 2012, erics lawyer goes to court. >> this is our first appearance to try to get the judgment vacated. >> cro...

Him out of jail. >> eric walks into the courtroom. >> number 4 and 5 on the calendar, eric glisson and kathie watkins. >> standing next to him is cathy watkins, the only woman of the bronx six. like eric, she was tried only for the cab drivers murder and in 1997 they went on trial together. eric says he doesnt know her now and didnt know her then. >> when trial started, the officers was bringing us up to the court and one of the officers says this is watkins. i said, cathy watkins? she said yeah...

God! grandma. oh my god. >> congratulations. >> thank you. oh my god. 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 sing sing? we took him back there. and we watched him finally make good on that promise to himself. to get that other view of the prison. this time from the outside.

Investigate. >> we have made a decision to take this unprecedented as you know, judge, and exceptional step that we are going to consent to the conditional vacating of the conviction for these two defendants and the condition being that the defendants do wear those electronic monitoring bracelets. >> all thats left now is for the judge to make it official. >> the record will reflect that the conditional vacater of the conviction as to mr. glisson and miss watkins is granted and each defendant is...

>> 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 there was still one problem. this is not the kind of law you normally practice. >> no, not at all. im a corporate lawyer. i do corporate litigation. i dont do criminal work. >> charmaine chester was peters assistant. this was also new territory for her. >> out of the blue one day, i g...

Looked only in the open homicide drawer and never bothered to even look to see if there was anything other than an unsolved homicide that fit that description. >> as far as you know, thats the end of it. >> right. like i said, id moved on. >> forcelli soon retired from the nypd, not knowing six people had already been convicted. in the meantime eric was stuck in prison. it wasnt until 2012, 14 years later, that he hit paydirt and it came in the form of cell phone records. remember, the cab drive...

The department allowed the detectives to be featured in "new york" magazine about how they amazingly cracked the cases. >> how the detectives could 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 c...

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 letter landed on this mans desk. his name, john omalley, an investigator for the u. s. attorney in new york. days after reading erics ...

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