An Oklahoma judge has overturned the rape conviction of a man who served 30 years in prison for rape after a DNA analysis excluded Norwood.Law client Perry James Lott from biological evidence collected in the case. The turn of events occurred after a new district attorney took office in early 2023 and conducted an in-depth review of Lott’s case.
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The nightmare that began nearly half-a-century ago for Norwood.Law client Glynn Ray Simmons has finally come to an end. Oklahoma County District Judge Amy Palumbo announced on Sept. 19, 2023, that his case was being dismissed and he would not be facing a new trial for murder.
Here’s a roundup of headlines on Norwood.Law client Glynn Simmons, who finally found freedom after 48 years in prison.
Glynn Simmons (top) and co-defendant Don Roberts By G.W. Schulz “Everybody realizes that eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable.” That’s what Tulsa County District Judge Sharon Holmes said in July of 2019 when she announced that Norwood.Law client Corey Dion Atchison was being exonerated of a Tulsa murder that took place in 1990. Atchison spent 28
Tulsa location where James Warren Lane was murdered in 1990. By G.W. Schulz Wayne Jones is the one who pulled the trigger. He’s the one who did the killing. That’s what a tipster calling herself “Lisa” told Det. Ken Makinson of the Tulsa Police Department during a call on Aug. 7, 1990. The tip came
A client of Norwood.Law in Tulsa is one step closer to becoming the longest-serving wrongfully convicted man in recorded U.S. history having so far spent almost half-a-century behind bars. Oklahoma County District Judge Amy Palumbo has ordered a new trial and new jury to reevaluate a 1974 robbery and murder that took place in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond.
By G.W. Schulz The 26-year saga of a man in Oklahoma who was sentenced to die for arranging the murder of his boss gripped local and national headlines as the case ascended all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2023. As Richard Glossip’s bid for relief reached the nation’s highest court, it also
By G.W. Schulz Glynn Ray Simmons has the U.S. Supreme Court to thank for his life. If not for a series of watershed rulings from the high court during the 1970s, Simmons would have been executed decades ago in Oklahoma. With time, hope, and help from Norwood.Law since then, Simmons was finally granted a new
By G.W. Schulz As the months, years, and decades slipped by without relief from a judge, Glynn Ray Simmons, a client of Norwood.Law based in Tulsa, edged closer to becoming the longest-serving wrongfully convicted man in recorded U.S. history. But that dubious distinction wouldn’t become a reality unless and until a judge or jury exonerated
On April 18, 2023, a judge assigned to the Simmons case, Amy Palumbo of the Oklahoma County District Court in Oklahoma City, was scheduled to take a fresh look at the evidence. After that, Palumbo would decide whether to vacate the original sentence and free Simmons outright or demand a new trial based on constitutional errors from the first trial in 1975.
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