DENVER (CN) — An Oklahoma City detective who no longer remembers working on a case 50 years ago asked the 10th Circuit to shield him and the city from a civil suit filed by a man wrongfully imprisoned for 48 years and exonerated in 2023.
When Carolyn Sue Rogers was murdered at the liquor store where she worked in Edmond, Oklahoma on Dec. 30, 1974, Oklahoma City Police Department Detective Claude Shobert helped investigate by conducting lineups of potential perpetrators.
Glynn Simmons was included in one such lineup in February 1975, after he was arrested as a suspect in different robbery. Even though Simmons moved to Oklahoma in January, and had been living in Harvey, Louisiana, when Rogers was murdered, prosecutors claimed a survivor of the liquor store attack identified him as one of the attackers…