Man leaves Ionia prison thanks to WMU-Cooley Law Innocence Project Kenneth Nixon has been released from prison after being wrongfully convicted for a crime almost 16 years ago. and last updated 2021-03-04 10:39:25-05 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.