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A 61-year-old Ionia man will receive $1.3 million from the state.In 1986, David Gavitt was sentenced to life without parole for three counts of felony…
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Lawyers for wrongfully convicted ex-prisoners are crying foul over the dismissal of their clients claims on the grounds of a missed deadline that they...
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The first hearings to compensate people who’ve been wrongfully convicted started Wednesday; but some left the courtroom unsatisfied.The hearings come…
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It was a day 25 years in coming. A Wayne County judge threw out Desmond Ricks' murder conviction after it came to light that his 1992 conviction may...
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"It was an out-of-body experience." That's how Raymond Highers described the moment when the judge sentenced him and his brother Tommy Highers to life...
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When the police knocked on his door, it never crossed Konrad Montgomery 's mind that they were there for him. The authorities were looking for a suspect...
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"You can just imagine the hell." The hell that Julie Baumer describes is her life after being tried and convicted for a crime that she did not commit....
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Just try to imagine how it would feel to be accused of a crime. Wrongfully accused. You didn't do it. But you're convicted and sent to prison. Then,...