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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. ...

Seen sister joanna chan since he was released. a woman who put eric on a quest for freedom all those years ago. >> oh, my god! oh my god! oh my god! grandma. oh my god. >> congratulations. >> thank you. oh my god. they told me you were in china. >> i was. >> and there was one last thing we wanted to do with eric. remember that bench eric could see from inside sing sing? we took him back there. and we watched him finally make good on that promise to himself. to get that other view of the prison. this time from the outside. >> that's all for this edition

>> as the years passed, eric took college courses offered by the prison. he learned about the law and fought his case. >> how did he get that evidence in his possession? >> the courts 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 programs, the woman he calls "grandma." >> there's particular dark time. he would say, grandma, it's really hard. >> i told her grandma, i just lost my last appeal. i don't know what i'm going to do. >> i always say, eric, let's keep the faith and let's go ...

Conviction. >> today? >> it's not going to be today. but it will be by the 13th i think. >> are you serious? >> do you believe that? >> well, it hasn't set in yet. >> i know. >> the initial shock. >> i know. >> all the fighting we have done over these years. >> yeah. >> um -- i don't know what to say right now. >> 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. you know, the mental trauma i'm going through right now because of this, i'm wondering whether, you know, they may renege o...

And closed both murder cases. within three weeks, they arrested their suspects and the bronx district attorney tried them. in all, six people were convicted. we'll call them the bronx six. five men and a woman. all sent away facing 25 to life. 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 that, you know, 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...