Michigan's new Clean Slate Law takes effect Tuesday; here's what it means
Michigan's new Clean Slate Law took effect on Tuesday, and it's a game-changing step toward helping those formerly incarcerated turn their lives around.
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Michigan's new Clean Slate Law took effect on Tuesday, and it's a game-changing step toward helping those formerly incarcerated turn their lives around.
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"It's a tsunami," said Darrell Siggers, describing the lawsuits that the City of Detroit has had to pay out and the others that are coming from men who have been exonerated or found to have been wrongfully convicted in homicide cases from many years ago.
The National Registry of Exonerations has tracked more than 3,000 exonerations since 1989.
The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office will be closely examining a staggering number of alleged wrongful convictions dating back decades.