He maintains that he is innocent of that crime. A week after his return, he was arrested as a suspect in the rape of two white minor girls. People warned him not to return to Louisiana, where he had attracted the attention of local parish police. He left Avoyelles Parish for several years, living in Texas. Later he was arrested but not convicted of burglary. He has said he got on the wrong side of the law, and committed infractions when young which resulted in his being sentenced to juvenile facilities. He is the son of Alzica and James Simmons, and has several siblings, including younger sisters Della and Olivia, and brother Philip "Bear" Simmons. Vincent Alfred Simmons is an African-American man from Mansura, a small town in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. He is one of the subjects of The Farm: 10 Down (2009), which returned 10 years later to the survivors among the six men featured in the 1998 film. He is the sole subject of a follow-up documentary Shadows of Doubt: Vincent Simmons (1999), which explored his case, its weaknesses, and his severe sentence.
Simmons is one of six subjects of the documentary The Farm: Life In Angola Prison (1998) (shown on HBO). After receiving a copy of his evidence file in 1993, he had found that it contained exculpatory evidence that was not given to his court-appointed attorney by the District Attorney, and that there were inconsistencies in reports and statements of victims and witnesses. By 1999 Simmons had filed numerous habeas corpus writs, but had not gained an evidentiary hearing by a Louisiana court. Simmons has maintained his innocence throughout. Vincent Alfred Simmons (born February 17, 1952) was a life prisoner at Angola State Prison in Louisiana, where he was sentenced to 100 years in July 1977 after being convicted of the "attempted aggravated rapes" of 14-year-old twin sisters Karen and Sharon Sanders of Marksville.
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