{"id":15293,"date":"2023-10-02T05:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwoodlegal.com\/?p=15293"},"modified":"2023-10-02T05:57:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:57:10","slug":"simmons-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwoodlegal.com\/simmons-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s a roundup of headlines on Norwood.Law client Glynn Simmons, who finally found freedom after 48 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By G.W. Schulz<\/p>

His enduring nightmare is finally over after nearly half a century. An Oklahoma judge announced Sept. 19, 2023, that Norwood.Law client Glynn Simmons would not be facing a new trial and his case was being dismissed. Oklahoma County District Judge Amy Palumbo had already vacated his conviction in July of 2023. She concluded at the time that a <\/span>key police report was withheld from Simmons<\/span><\/a> during his 1975 trial. That document raised critical questions about who a star witness in the case actually identified during suspect lineups.<\/span><\/p>

Those lineups were part of the <\/span>police investigation of a 1974 liquor-store robbery<\/span><\/a> that took place in Edmond, Oklahoma, and resulted in Simmons and a co-defendant, Don Roberts, spending decades in prison. During the robbery, a clerk, Carolyn Sue Rogers, was murdered and a customer was shot in the head but survived.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

With no physical evidence available in the case, the survivor\u2019s testimony held the entire case together. The customer, Belinda Brown, acknowledged at trial that she only saw the perpetrators for a few seconds. Prosecutors would <\/span>later admit their case was weak<\/span><\/a>. Simmons and Roberts were nonetheless sent to prison. Roberts was released on parole in 2008, but Simmons refused to confess to anything and remained in confinement.<\/span><\/p>