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Man gets $7 million settlement after being wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 50 years

The city of Edmond, Oklahoma, has agreed to pay a settlement of over $7 million to Glynn Simmons, a man who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1975 for a murder he did not commit. Earlier this year, Simmons filed a federal lawsuit accusing police of fabricating the evidence in the crime to get a conviction.
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