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The Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the creation of a permanent Conviction Integrity and Expungement Unit to investigate wrongful convictions and help people clear their records.
Missouri may pass bill that can help Jackson County prosecutor free Kevin Strickland Jeanne Kuang and Luke Nozicka, The Kansas City Star May 12—JEFFERSON CITY — On Monday, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said Missouri law won't allow her to move to free a Kansas City man she said is innocent. On Wednesday, legislators were on the brink of passing a bill to give her that power. Attached to legislation that lifts the Kansas City Police Department's residency requirement and enacts a bipartisan package of criminal justice reforms is a provision allowing local pros...
Together, the 27 individuals exonerated by the Wayne County CIU spent 415 years wrongfully imprisoned.
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...