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>> her office believes there may have been an injustice, but only agrees to release glisson and watkins if they wear monitoring bracelets as the d.a.'s office continues to investigate. >> we have made a decision to take this unprecedented, as you know, judge, an exceptional step that we are going to consent the conditional vacating of the conviction of 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 vacator it is granted and each is re...

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. [ cheers and applause ] >> eric, what's 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 kathy watkins' turn! >> oh, my goodness. >> >> also wrongfully convicted. >> 17 years. >> almost 18 years. >> she was 29 when she went away. >> look at your shirt. >> now she's 46. >> i didn't do it. 100% innocent and this is what the justic...

Stood up and asked me did you write this letter and he said yes. he shook my hand and he said i'm sorry. >> i said sorry for what? >> he says, you know, i know you're innocent. when he said that i said, what are you talking about, sir? he said, listen. i know the guys who comitted this crime. >> how did o'malley know? it turns out o'malley worked with detective forcelli on that gang case ten years earlier and back then, those two gang members, jose and gilbert actually confessed the cab driver shooting to o'malley. >> he said when i read this letter everything just came back to me from that da...

♪ >> 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 instead...

One of them was eric glisson. >> what's it like to hear that verdict read? >> it's like a shot in the chest. it's like your heart just melts, just dissolves. you actually think they read the wrong verdict, that this can't be true. >> the nypd was quite proud of detectives donnelly and aiello's work. so proud that five months after the arrest the department aloud 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...