Judge releases man in 1990 slayings of 2 Michigan hunters
A judge has thrown out convictions and ordered the release of a man who has long claimed innocence in the slayings of two Michigan deer hunters in 1990. Jeff Titus has served nearly 21 years of a life prison sentence. Michigan authorities requested that Titus be freed, saying an Ohio serial killer instead could have been responsible. The state says Titus’ rights were violated at trial when his lawyer never was informed that investigators in Kalamazoo County had gathered evidence years earlier against Thomas Dillon. Dillon was never charged. But he pleaded guilty in Ohio to killing five peopl...