IT'S GOING TO BE A REALLY NICE JAMES GOING HAPPEN FAST. THAT'S COMING UP. THANK YOU. DENIED ATTORNEYS FOR AN OKLAHOMA MAN WHO SPENT NEARLY HALF A CENTURY BEHIND BARS. >> FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT FILED A LAWSUIT TODAY AGAINST THE PEOPLE WHO LED THE CASE AGAINST HIM OF THOSE YEARS AGO AND USE FOR SPENCER HUMPHREY. TALK TO THAT MAN. SO SPENCER MUCH YOU TELLING YOU? YEAH, THAT MAN, GLENN SIMMONS TELLS ME THERE'S ULTIMATELY NO AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT COULD EVER MAKE UP FOR THE 48 YEARS OF HIS LIFE.
HE SPENT LOCKED UP AS AN INNOCENT MAN. >> BUT THERE HAS TO BE SOME SORT OF ACCOUNTABILITY. NOW HIS CASE IS ONE NEWS. 4 HAS BEEN COVERING FOR MORE THAN 2 DECADES. SIMMONS WAS CONVICTED IN 1974. EDMAN MURDER. HE ALWAYS MAINTAINED HE DID NOT COMMIT. THEN LAST APRIL, A JUDGE TOSSED OUT SIMMONS MURDER CONVICTION AND GRANTED HIM A NEW TRIAL BECAUSE HIS FIRST TRIAL WAS UNFAIR. SIMMONS WAS RELEASED AFTER SPENDING 48 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 18 DAYS IN PRISON FOR A CRIME HE DIDN'T COMMIT. THE LAWSUIT FILED THIS EVENING AGAINST THE CITY OF EDMOND, THE CITY OF OKLAHOMA CITY AND THE DETECTIVES WHO WORKED THE CASE IN 1974. ARGUES THEY KNOWINGLY ROAD UP FALSE REPORTS AND COVERED UP EVIDENCE IN ORDER TO GET SIMMONS AND ANOTHER DEFENDANT CONVICTED TONIGHT, SIMMONS TOLD ME THIS LAWSUIT IS MORE ABOUT HOLDING THOSE GROUPS ACCOUNTABLE AND SENDING A MESSAGE BECAUSE NO AMOUNT OF MONEY WILL EVER MAKE UP FOR THE YEARS HE LOST. >> BUT LOT GRADUATIONS, BUT I WANT TO KNOW. GRANDKIDS. YES, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE FAMILY AND THEN I I WAS I WAS OUT OF STATE, WAS ALLOWED TO ATTEND YOU KNOW, NOTHING SO, YOU KNOW, IT BECAME REALLY BUT YOU CAN'T REALLY.
BUT I'VE TAKEN AWAY, NOT JUST MINE, BUT, YOU KNOW. EVERYBODY ELSE THAT HAD MY BACK AND SUPPORT ME. >> NOW HIS ATTORNEYS TELL ME THEY AREN'T ASKING FOR ANY SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF MONEY UP FRONT BUT WANT A JURY TO DECIDE WHAT AMOUNT THEY THINK IS FAIR FOR AN INNOCENT MAN WHO SPENT NEARLY A HALF-CENTURY LOCKED UP. NOW NEWS 4 LEARNED OF THE LAWSUIT AFTER NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS TODAY. WE EFFORT TO GET THAT LAWSUIT AND TO GET THAT ANSWERS FROM THOSE CITIES WHEN THEY OPEN BACK .