Edmond reaches $7.15M settlement with exonerated man who spent 49 years in prison

EDMOND, Okla. – A man who spent decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit reached a partial settlement in a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Edmond. The Edmond City Council reached the $7.15 million settlement with Glynn Simmons, who was wrongfully convicted of the 1974 murder of Carolyn Sue Rogers at an Edmond liquor store. Simmons sued the cities of Edmond and Oklahoma City, and the police officers involved in the investigation, claiming they falsified evidence and suppressed exonerating evidence to frame him for murder.

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