A Calhoun County woman will remain free on bond while lawyers try to persuade the Michigan Supreme Court to get involved in a sex-abuse conviction that fell apart because of new evidence, the Associated Press reports. Lorinda Swain is being helped by the Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan ...
The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office dropped a murder charge against Dwayne Provience today, saying it didn’t have sufficient evidence to retry him in a 2000 drug killing, the Detroit Free Press reported. The Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan, which won a new trial for Provience last year after ...
A Detroit man who spent nearly a decade behind bars is returning to court today to learn if he'll face a second murder trial. It's the latest case for the Michigan Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan, which won its first victory in July. Dwayne Provience was released Nov. ...
Brett DeGroff joined the University of Michigan Law School's Innocence Clinic for one main reason. "I wanted to be able to look my child in the eye and say that I helped free an innocent man," DeGroff said. Last week, DeGroff took one step closer to that goal when client ...
The University of Michigan Law School's Innocence Clinic is working to change the justice system one case at a time.The clinic won its first victory in July when Wayne County Judge Patricia Fresard granted DeShawn and Marvin Reed a new trial in the 2000 shooting of Shannon Gholston. The Reeds spent ...
Despite being exonerated in the 2000 shooting of Shannon Gholston, DeShawn Reed finds himself explaining the gap in his resume, the result of eight years in prison, as if he'd actually committed the crime. "(Employers) want to know why you haven't been working for the last nine years,” he said. ...
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