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SWLA Arrest Report - May 7, 2021 (Source: KPLC) By KPLC Digital Team | May 8, 2021 at 1:11 PM CDT - Updated May 8 at 2:41 PM LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Calcasieu Correctional Center booking report for May 7, 2021. Karl Melvin Adbshire, 63, Lake Charles: Driving on roadway laned for traffic; possession of a controlled dangerous substance, Schedule II; prohibited acts: drug paraphernalia. Julian Andre Chambers, 50, Lake Charles: Domestic abuse battery: child endangerment; domestic abuse battery: strangulation. Seth Bernard Howard, 31, Lake Charles: Unauthorized entry of a place of busine...

Ex-Detroit cop linked to wrongful convictions admits doubts over key evidence from the start Within six months, three men housed on the 9th floor lock-up at Detroit Police Headquarters will be convicted of separate murders that most of the evidence showed they had nothing to do with. and last updated 2021-04-14 20:51:29-04 DETROIT (WXYZ) — It’s November 1994. Within six months, three men housed on the 9 th floor lock-up at Detroit Police Headquarters will be convicted of separate murders that most of the evidence showed they had nothing to do with. The first was Larry Smith, then Ra...

Follow CNN This Wayne County, Michigan, program is helping exonerate people for crimes they didn't commit. Now it's going statewide By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN Updated 4:19 PM ET, Mon March 1, 2021 From left, Kevin Harrington, Larry Smith and Bernard Howard were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned before being exonerated through the Wayne County Conviction Integrity Unit. (CNN)After spending more than 26 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, Larry Smith was released February 4 through the Conviction Integrity Unit at the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office in Michigan. The feeling, Sm...

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 ba...

After spending his entire adult life in prison,  convicted of three murders he didn't commit, Bernard Howard said he is looking forward to finally spending the holidays with his loved ones. "We're going to really celebrate on Christmas," Howard, 44, said Thursday, just hours after a Detroit judge exonerated him, wiping his record clean. He was imprisoned for 26 years. "The family is putting a party together for me." The plan, Howard said, is to have a family game night — board games and card games — with everyone having fun, taking a moment to enjoy being together and trying�...