Attorney Joe Norwood and Norwood.Law appear often in the news.
Below is a year-end roundup of select stories and headlines featuring Joe, his clients, and Norwood.Law.
One of our highest-publicized clients, Glynn Simmons, holds the record in America for the longest prison sentence ever served due to a wrongful conviction. He served 48 years in Oklahoma’s prison system.
After we freed Simmons, Norwood.Law then sued on his behalf. That lawsuit settled last year with officials in Edmond, Oklahoma, for $7 million. Another similar suit for two wrongfully convicted men in Tulsa settled this year for $15 million.
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Witness
Norwood.Law client Glynn Simmons spent nearly half a century in Oklahoma’s grueling prison system for a murder he didn’t commit. There’d never been any physical evidence, and the lone witness was highly questionable.
But with our help, Simmons was finally let go in 2023 when an Oklahoma City judge declared him innocent of a 1974 murder. After decades of Simmons trying to free himself, the case had found its way to attorney Joe Norwood in Tulsa.
Simmons isn’t the only one. Joe Norwood has freed others in cases that seemed hopeless.
There have been major recent developments in other Norwood.Law cases where Joe’s clients spent decades in prison over wrongful convictions.
For two of those clients, Malcolm Scott and Demarchoe Carpenter, city officials in Tulsa agreed to a settlement this year of $15 million. The civil suit took an extraordinary eight years to reach a conclusion.
Norwood.Law had initially freed Malcolm and Demarchoe after they spent 22 years in prison for a Tulsa murder they didn’t do.
Newsworthy
Check out this news coverage:
- Actual Innocence: Glynn Simmons was innocent. Read the story of his 48-year fight to prove it. The Oklahoman
- Gov. Kevin Stitt signs bill increasing compensation to those wrongfully convicted KOCO
- The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers Tulsa Lawyer
- Tulsa City Council approves $26 million settlement with man wrongfully convicted News On 6
- Hundreds could be in Oklahoma prisons on a wrongful conviction. This group helps them find justice The Oklahoman
- Glynn Simmons speaks to media after dismissal of murder case The Oklahoman
- Oklahoma city approves over $7 million settlement with man wrongfully imprisoned for 48 years CNN
- DA denies request to overturn conviction of man convicted alongside Glynn Simmons KFOR
- Glynn Simmons exonerated after 48 years in Oklahoma County in 2023: Photos The Oklahoman
- Tulsa man’s 1991 murder conviction overturned by judge who said she was ‘appalled’ by prosecution’s tactics The Frontier
- Glynn Simmons: Freedom ‘exhilarating’ for man exonerated after 48 years BBC
- I spent 48 years in prison for a murder I didn’t commit. Here’s how I fought my way to freedom The Guardian
- Glynn Simmons settlement: Oklahoma paying $175,000 for 48 years of wrongful incarceration NonDoc
- Oklahoma to award compensation to Glynn Simmons after 48 years of wrongful imprisonment The Oklahoman
- Perry Lott Is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma The Innocence Project
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Joseph M. Norwood is a Tulsa attorney with the courtroom expertise you need. Contact his office at 918-582-6464.
By G.W. Schulz