Residents in Little Rock s Ward 7 spoke up about public infrastructure concerns at a sales tax referendum meeting with Mayor Frank Scott Jr. on Monday.
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Officers was bringing us up to the court and one of the officer s says this is watkins. i said, cathy watkins? she said yeah, who are you? i said, i m eric glisson. how are you involved this? she says, i don t know. how are you involved? what s going on? we both didn t know. we was confused. now, 18 years later, assistant district attorney nicole keary says her office believes there may have been an injustice. but only agrees to release glisson and watkins if they wear monitor bracelets as the d. a. s office continues to 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 that s left now is for the judge to make it official. the record will reflect that the conditional vacater of the
Like from that bench to the window because all i know is what it looks like from that window to the bench. finally, on october 22nd, 2012, four months after a federal investigator vouched for eric s innocence, his day in court has come. eric s been transferred from sing sing and is waiting in a holding cell in the bronx county courthouse. apparently the court officers were advised it s also been a long, painful road for lawyer peter cross. this is the one case kept me up at night for six years because i knew we had to find, really like the one-armed man to get him out of jail. eric walks into the courtroom. numbers 4 and 5 on the calendar, eric glisson and cathy watkins. standing next to him is cathy watkins, the only woman of the bronx six. like eric, she was tried only for the cab driver s murder and in 1997 they went on trial together. eric says he doesn t know her now and didn t know her then. when trial started, the
Conviction as to mr. glisson and miss watkins is granted and each defendant is released on their own recognizance. [applause] eric s friends and family and the news media are waiting for him outside. and now, for the first time in nearly two decades, eric glisson is about to take his first steps as a free man. eric, what is your emotion right now? this is a major, pivotal point in my life. and i worked hard. i persevered. and with effort and determination i m standing here before you. now, it s his co-defendant cathy watkins turn. also wrongfully convicted.
Conviction as to mr. glisson and miss watkins is granted and each defendant is released on their own recognizance. [applause] eric s friends and family and the news media are waiting for him outside. and now, for the first time in nearly two decades, eric glisson is about to take his first steps as a free man. eric, what is your emotion right now? this is a major, pivotal point in my life. and i worked hard. i persevered. and with effort and determination i m standing here before you. now, it s his co-defendant cathy watkins turn. also wrongfully convicted. 17 years. almost 18 years. 29 years old when she went
Like from that bench to the window because all i know is what it looks like from that window to the bench. finally, on october 22nd, 2012, four months after a federal investigator vouched for eric s innocence, his day in court has come. eric s been transferred from sing sing and is waiting in a holding cell in the bronx county courthouse. apparently the court officers were advised it s also been a long, painful road for lawyer peter cross. this is the one case kept me up at night for six years because i knew we had to find, really like the one-armed man to get him out of jail. eric walks into the courtroom. numbers 4 and 5 on the calendar, eric glisson and cathy watkins. standing next to him is cathy watkins, the only woman of the bronx six. like eric, she was tried only for the cab driver s murder and in 1997 they went on trial together. eric says he doesn t know her
Now and didn t know her then. when trial started, the officers was bringing us up to the court and one of the officer s says this is watkins. i said, cathy watkins? she said yeah, who are you? i said, i m eric glisson. how are you involved this? she says, i don t know. how are you involved? what s going on? we both didn t know. we was confused. now, 18 years later, assistant district attorney nicole keary says her office believes there may have been an injustice. but only agrees to release glisson and watkins if they wear monitor bracelets as the d. a. s office continues to 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 that s left now is for the judge to make it official. the record will reflect that the conditional vacater of the
this is the one case kept me up at night for six years because i knew we had to find, really like the one-armed man to get him out of jail. eric walks into the courtroom. numbers 4 and 5 on the calendar, eric glisson and cathy watkins. standing next to him is cathy watkins, the only woman of the bronx six. like eric, she was tried only for the cab driver s murder and in 1997 they went on trial together. eric says he doesn t know her now and didn t know her then. when trial started, the officers was bringing us up to the court and one of the officer s says this is watkins. i said, cathy watkins? she said yeah, who are you? i said, i m eric glisson. how are you involved this? she says, i don t know. how are you involved? what s going on? we both didn t know. we was confused. now, 18 years later, assistant district attorney nicole keary says her office believes there may have been an injustice. but only agrees to