Glynn Ray Simmons has been awarded $7 million by the city of Edmond, Oklahoma.
In February, Glynn Ray Simmons told The Guardian how he dealt with his battle to overturn seemingly the longest miscarriage of justice in American history or what he referred to it as an attempted murder. At the time, Simmons was preparing to sue, but planned to use the money to help others in the same situation.
Now he can.
According to The Associated Press, Simmons, who was wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 50 years, the Edmond City Council voted to award Simmons more than $7 million earlier this week.
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, Simmons maintained that he was in Louisiana at the time of the murder of Carolyn Sue Rogers, a 30-year-old store clerk at a liquor store, in 1974 and had never visited the state of Oklahoma before Jan. 5, 1975, when he came to live with his aunt.
In a motion for amended post-conviction relief filed by his lawyers at the time, Joseph Norwood and John Coyle, in January 2023, they argued that Belinda Brown, an 18-year-old survivor of the shooting at the liquor store, failed to correctly identify Simmons.