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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ed White

A Detroit murder conviction is overturned 22 years later because of police misconduct

Wrongful Conviction Michigan - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A man has been released from prison after 22 years after Detroit-area prosecutors acknowledged that his murder conviction was tainted by the key testimony of a rogue police officer who turned out to be a serial bank robber.

“Not much shocks me anymore, but this did,” Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said. “I have never seen anything like this in all of my decades of being a judge or a prosecutor.”

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