Wayne County Conviction Integrity Unit using database to track improper use of informants
We re taking a closer look at the operations inside Wayne County s Conviction Integrity Unit.
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DETROIT (WXYZ) â Let our innocent people go now. It s too many people to name, said Nakira Smith Bullard, the daughter of Larry Smith who was released from a Michigan prison earlier this year after spending 27 years behind bars.
Smith had been convicted in the 1994 murder of a man in Detroit, but the Wayne County Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) examined his case and found that the jailhouse informant, who claimed Smith confessed to him, was discredited and suspected of fabricating information to gain favors from police in his own criminal case.
Exonerated men, heartbroken families fight for justice for those wrongfully convicted It s been a struggle, you know, to sit up here and try to convince people of my innocence, said Clyde Jordan, a prison in the Michigan Department of Corrections.
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DETROIT (WXYZ) â It s been a struggle, you know, to sit up here and try to convince people of my innocence, said Clyde Jordan, a prison in the Michigan Department of Corrections.
Jordan is serving a life sentence for First Degree Murder of a man in 1993, but it s a crime he has always maintained he did not commit.
Panel awards $10M to man wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 20 years in Detroit double slaying
A Metro Detroit man wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years has been awarded $9.95 million by an arbitration panel, the man s attorney announced Monday.
A three-person arbitration panel, composed of three retired judges, awarded the money Friday to Mubarez Ahmed, who was wrongfully convicted in 2002 for the double murder of Lavelle Griffin and LaTanya White in Detroit.
The award capped a long battle against a Detroit Police Department detective who, according to Ahmed s lawyer Wolfgang Mueller, framed him. The award from the panel stems from a federal lawsuit Ahmed filed against the officer in 2018.
Imprisoned for deadly house fire 21 years ago, man has questionable conviction under review
By Randy Wimbley and David Komer online producer
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ROYAL OAK TWP., Mich. (FOX 2) - Oakland County Prosecutor Karen Mcdonald launched an investigation into her office citing concerns a former staffer may have crossed ethical lines prosecuting the case of a deadly Royal Oak Township house fire that killed five children 21 years ago.
Juwan Deering was convicted of arson and five counts of felony murder for that fire. He’s been in prison for 14 years on a life sentence.
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Kenneth Nixon has been released from prison after being wrongfully convicted for a crime almost 16 years ago.
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OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. â For nearly sixteen years, daily, sometimes multiple times every day, Kenneth Nixon thought about his innocence.
At just 19 years old, he was convicted of murder, attempted murder, and arson after a Molotov cocktail thrown into a Detroit house killed two kids and injured family members back in 2005.
Nixon received two life sentences plus 30 to 60 years for the crime he always said he didnât commit.