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Detroit Man exonerated, awarded $10 million for wrongful murder conviction

After spending more than six years in prison, a man has been exonerated for murder after a federal judge awarded him a historic $10 million verdict after a trial in Detroit.

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Dove tales: CIU interview casts doubt on Detroit firefighter death conviction

Fire wall: The case of Mario Willis (part III)

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Detroit man wrongfully imprisoned for 16 years helping others find their voice

In 2005 Kenneth Nixon was wrongfully imprisoned for 16 years for an arson that killed two young children in Detroit. Now he's using his story to educate others as Wrongful Conviction Day approaches.

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Maslamani's upbringing scrutinized in resentencing for Matt Landry murder – Daily Tribune

Ihab Maslamani was described as a ‘struggling,’ ‘immature’ and yet ‘likable’ boy as he bounced from one ‘chaotic’ situation to the next in the Wayne County foster care system, according to his attorney and two adults who knew him. That boy grew into an ‘incorrigible’ teenager who committed many violent acts, culminating with a three-day […]

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11 Investigates: Gerken pledges to push for county conviction integrity unit

The support follows multiple WTOL 11 stories on the county's justice system. The commissioner says it will give hope to those wrongly convicted.

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11 Investigates | Conviction integrity units not popular in Ohio

More than 3,000 people have been exonerated since 1989, and many of them after work by CIUs.

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more than 20 years after the murder, was what tommy and ray and their family, had about lost hope they would never find. >> i finally got the whole story and it was like, damn. somebody seen it. somebody knew. >> this all made sense. >> it was just a matter of mistaken identity? >> absolutely. it just proves everything we've said and believed for the last 25 years. >> john's story, which could've disappeared forever, had it not been for mary's facebook posts and kevin's steel truck memory, now give aunt jan and all those who loved and believed in tommy unruly, new determination. the family brought in a whole new legal team. with one goal. nail down the evidence. get the brothers out of prison. attorneys jan knabb and valerie newman. >> i thought this case should have never been charged. >> a mistake happened. a mistake happened and it ended

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persuading all those witnesses to testify about a moment in time so long ago, was no less difficult. knowing that, tommy and ray's family became a sort of cheering section in court. >> we filled up the room and we wanted to show everybody that we were there to back them up. and we just wanted to be there for them. >> all crowded the courtroom of judge lawrence talon, who will decide if the new evidence merited a new trial. >> all right, want to bring them up? >> finally, tommy and ray highers filed into court. the brothers who from day one insisted they were innocent, whose family never stopped believing in them, looking like just what they were. survivors of a quarter century in prison. >> it was pins and needles. i mean, it was our life. because if he didn't believe what he was hearing -- >> we were going right back to the state -- >> and there was never no more relief. >> and this was it? >> this was it. for sure. >> good morning, your honor. valerie newman, public defenders office.

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>> finally, tommy and ray highers filed into court. the brothers who from day one insisted they were innocent, whose family never stopped believing in them, looking like just what they were. survivors of a quarter century in prison. >> it was pins and needles. i mean, it was our life. because if he didn't believe what he was hearing -- >> we were going right back to the state -- >> and there was never no more relief. >> and this was it? >> this was it. for sure. >> good morning, your honor. valerie newman, public defenders office. >> when i got to the hearing, it was all out warfare. >> the defense began laying out this strange tale from the start. with mary evans and her 2009 facebook post. >> ms. evans, why have you come forward in this case? >> you know, on the streets i always heard that highers didn't do it. >> next, the d. c. lawyer who just happened to answer that post of mary's. >> would you please set your name for the record? >> kevin zieleniewski? >> on the stand kevin re-told

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