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>> huh? >> coming up, no prison bars. no prison guards and doors he can open himself. eric glisson's first night of freedom in almost 20 years. >> and a reunion with the woman who helped him win it. >> oh, my god! grandma!
Let's keep the faith and let's go and pray, and i said we have many, many sisters praying with you. >> sister joanna offered more than just her prayers. that's when she brought in peter cross who was now fighting for eric on the outside. >> so you have detective donnelly as the officer assigned. >> with eric as his guide, cross got up to speed, and he found some troubling information about how detectives donnelly and aiello connected the two murders. it was through this witness, her name is kathy gomez. >> kathy, we're on the record. >> cross tracked her down and videotaped his interview with ...
Eric glisson's first night of freedom in almost 20 years. first meal, lambchops
These are the people we're calling the bronx six, five men and a woman, all convicted and sent away for 25 years to life for committing murder, all insisted they were innocent. we met one of them, eric glisson in sing sing where from behind bars he'd been trying to get answers ever since he was locked up. >> i've been fighting these people for years asking for documents which they denied me at every turn. >> how many people said to you, look, this could go easier if you stop fighting this, if you just accept this sentence that you've been given and try to get parole? >> i look around me every ...
Court in a sworn affidavit stating that eric glisson and the others were innocent of the cab driver shooting. armed with that kind of statement you'd think eric would be literally home free. you'd be wrong. coming up, eric glisson isn't giving up. >> this is my wall of hope. everyone here has been unjustly convicted and freed. will his own picture ever be on it? >> tears welled up in my eyes. >> when "a bronx tale" continues.