Detroit Free Press
Unreliable testimony in a 1994 trial sent Larry Smith, a Detroit man, to prison for 26 years for a murder he said he didn t commit.
Smith was freed Thursday, despite a justice system glitch this time an information technology issue that could have postponed his release. All of the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice computer services were down, the court administrator said.
But Judge Shannon Walker signed the order dismissing all charges against Smith, and he was released by the state Department of Corrections.
Smith, 45, spent nearly his entire adult life behind bars and is the latest case in which a reevaluation of a Michigan murder conviction has been overturned after a new examination.
Teens charged with murder in stabbing, carjacking of Uber driver
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
DETROIT – An Uber driver was allegedly hit in the head with a hammer, stabbed several times and left in an alley to die by a pair of teenagers who are now facing charges as adults.
On the morning of Jan. 21, Police discovered the driver, 60-year-old Timothy Marcus Perkins, in an alley bleeding from his head and multiple stab wounds to his torso and back, according to a news release from the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. He was transported to a local hospital where he died of the stab wounds.
Share January 30, 2021, 9:38 AM A 17-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl are charged as adults in the Southwest Detroit slaying of an Uber driver last week because the alleged facts in this case are especially heinous and violent, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy says, according to the Free Press. Devin McKee and Lanyah Brady, the younger suspect, are accused of killing Timothy Marcus Perkins, a 60-year-old from Southfield, with a hammer and knife. They were arraigned Friday in 36th District Court, the paper reports. The evidence in this case will show that these defendants called an Uber with a plan to rob and carjack the driver, beat and bludgeoned him, and left him in an alley to die, the Freep quotes Worthy as saying. These details are in the article:
Ex-Gov. Snyder, chief of staff ask courts to dismiss charges
Lawyers for two of the biggest names charged in the Flint water crisis investigation, former Gov. Rick Snyder and former Chief of Staff Jarrod Agen, have asked judges this week to dismiss the cases against their clients.
In court filings, attorneys for Snyder and Agen contended that prosecutors brought the criminal cases in the incorrect county. The alleged wrongdoing took place in Ingham County, but the charges were brought in Genesee County, where Flint is located, they said. The remedy for an indictment charging offenses outside the grand jury’s jurisdiction is axiomatic: A trial court must quash an indictment returned by a grand jury that lacked jurisdiction, Snyder s attorneys, Brian Lennon, Charles Ash Jr. and Judith Gracey, wrote in a Monday motion in 67th District Court.
2 Detroit teens charged as adults with homicide after robbing, stabbing Uber driver
By Jack Nissen
DETROIT - Two teenagers have been charged in connection with the murder of an Uber driver after he was found in an alleyway with multiple stab wounds.
Devin Delon McKee, 16, and Lanyah Quan Brady, 15, were both arrested and charged as adults with first-degree felony murder, carjacking, and armed robbery causing serious injury.
They appeared before a judge for arraignment on Friday.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said it was rare to use an automatic waiver to charge juveniles as adults, but the alleged facts were heinous and violent.