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Longest serving wrongful conviction exoneree in US history, Glynn Simmons, has reached partial settlement of $7.15 million in his civil rights lawsuit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 13, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY – A young Black man wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death a half century ago, Glynn Simmons, has reached a partial settlement of $7,150,000 in his civil rights lawsuit against the cities and police who falsified evidence and suppressed exonerating evidence to frame him for murder.

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The cost of innocence
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Will Oklahoma lawmakers boost compensation for exonerees?

Efforts are continuing in Oklahoma by advocates to raise the compensation given to people who serve years or decades in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. Under current Oklahoma law, a person must be pardoned by the governor or formally declared innocent by a judge in order to be eligible for any payouts to the wrongfully convicted. No matter how many years a person has served in prison, they are only granted a small, lump sum.

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The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers

In Shakespeare’s “Henry VI,” a gang of outlaw insurgents plots to overthrow the government. They’re angered by the everyday oppression of everyday people. One of the subversives utters a line that will be popularly recited for centuries to come: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

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