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ZEELAND Nearly 20 years after the death of her daughter, Zeeland woman Karen Boes may get another chance to prove the innocence she’s clung to during her life sentence in prison.
Boes, 65, was found guilty of murdering her 14-year-old daughter Robin in 2002. She was convicted by an Ottawa County jury after the Boes’ family home caught fire with Robin sleeping inside. Prosecutors claimed Boes set the house on fire, then left, knowing her daughter was trapped inside.
But at her sentencing and during her 18 years in prison since, Boes insists she had nothing to do with the fatal fire.
Now, the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic is helping Boes have another chance to prove it in court.
Innocence advocates push police transparency bills
Detroit Two men who spent decades in prison for murders they didn t commit joined a state representative and innocence advocates Friday to lobby for making police discipline records public, which they say would help identify problem cops and curb wrongful convictions.
The legislative virtual briefing was hosted by Rep. Tyrone Carter, D-Detroit, who on Thursday co-sponsored bipartisan legislation that would require police departments release files of disciplined police officers requested under the Freedom of Information Act, or during court cases. The proposed bills are similar to those Carter co-sponsored last year, which expired in committee.
Two Michigan men who have been exonerated after wrongfully spending 17 years in prison have filed a lawsuit against the City of Inkster and two former detectives.