Prisoner #85188 Vincent Simmons NFT Defense Fund

Vincent Simmons has been wrongfully imprisoned in Angola Prison since 1977. He was accused of raping two 14 year olds and kidnapping them along with their older male cousin. Vincent was picked up because he was black. He was put in a line-up where only he was wearing handcuffs. He was taken into interrogation and one of the cops shot him in the chest (a cousin of the alleged victims). A medical examiner looked at the girls and found one of them was still a virgin. None of this was ever turned over to his defense. In the last few years a pro bono attorney has come forward and helped expose that the male cousin involved was actually behind the rapes, and an innocent black man was framed yet ag...View all