Lucas County to begin operating conviction integrity unit
Lucas County Prosecutor Julia Bates is finalizing the structure and guidelines for the conviction integrity unit that reviews post-conviction claims of innocence.
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Lucas County Prosecutor Julia Bates is finalizing the structure and guidelines for the conviction integrity unit that reviews post-conviction claims of innocence.
A judge ordered a retrial for Eric Misch, who was previously convicted in the 1992 killing of Vernon Huggins.
Several pieces of evidence pointing to alternative suspects were never turned over to Eric Misch's defense team by Toledo police.
A change in Ohio law increases the odds that Lucas County will have its first wrongful imprisonment designation.
The program's goal is to achieve exonerations in Lucas County, which is one of the few counties in Ohio without an exoneration since 1989