Innocent Black Man Who Spent 50 Years in Prison Might Get $175K
Sent to prison in 1975, an exonerated Oklahoma man is only eligible for $175k in compensation after spending most of his life in prison.
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Sent to prison in 1975, an exonerated Oklahoma man is only eligible for $175k in compensation after spending most of his life in prison.
A man found guilty in a 1975 murder has spent what the National Registry of Exonerations calls the longest prison sentence on a wrongful conviction. Glynn Simmons, now 71 years old, was named a suspect in an armed robbery that left the clerk of a liquor store in Edmond, Okla. dead, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.