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Eric's been transferred sing sing and is waiting in a holding cell in a bronx county courthouse. >> apparently -- >> it's 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 eric, she was tried only for the cab driver's murder and in 1997 they went on trial together. >> er...

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 didn't testify against eric, her claims all these years later wouldn't help him. >> to have any chance of having another day in court, eric knew he'd made 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 eric's...

♪ ♪ >> but unfortunately, for eric, a month later he's still behind bars. >> these people just don't want to let me go. they want to continue to hold me and torture me. the mental trauma i'm going through right now because of this, i'm 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 that's helped him wake up every morning. >> there is a bench by the water that each time i go to the barbershop and i look at that bench and i wonder if i'll ever be able to sit on it and look back up here ins...

And i see a lot of these guys become complacent. >> that's easy to understand. >> they're not going to convict me for something that i didn't do and expect me to accept it. i'm going to fight until the end. i'm 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 don't have any appeals left. nothing. >> it was a lonely fight and then in 2006 he met sister joanna chan in one of the prison's ...

And we are by his side as he experiences all of it. >> oh! i see this in the magazine. tap dancing. >> eric's first few hours of freedom are part exhilaration, part discovery. >> hello? hello? >> he's never actually used a cell phone. >> where is cynthia? hello? >> you have it upside-down, eric. >> hello? >> no, it's 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. >> wow.