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The first ever federal rules limiting PFAS chemicals in drinking water, the Armenian diaspora in Michigan, and possible improvements to the state's 2016 Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act
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A wrongfully convicted Detroiter will get $10 million for the six years he spent in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out.
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Terance Calhoun was exonerated in 2022 after an investigation revealed that the confession underpinning his conviction was likely a false one.
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The state of Michigan will pay $1.75 million to Louis Wright. Wright who spent 35 years in prison, was wrongly convicted of sexual assault. He was released in November 2023.
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Prosecutors drop murder charges against Jeff Titus, in prison for 21 years for a double murder. His lawyer was never told about another prime suspect — an Ohio serial killer.
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Justly Johnson and Kendrick Scott were convicted of the 1999 Mother’s Day murder of Lisa Kindred. The proposed settlements, which still need Detroit City Council approval, would pay each man $8.25 million.
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The Michigan attorney general’s Conviction Integrity Unit has received funding for post-conviction DNA testing that it can use to address some of the 1,700 pending claims of wrongful conviction in the state.
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Terence Calhoun pleaded no contest to several charges in 2007. That same year, investigators found DNA evidence that did not belong to Calhoun. But that evidence wasn’t turned over to Calhoun’s defense team until 2019.
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Attorney General Dana Nessel said she hopes the exonerations of Melvin and George DeJesus can help prevent prosecutors from making similar mistakes in the future.
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Juwan Deering was convicted in 2005 of setting a house fire that killed five children in Royal Oak Township. On Tuesday, a judge granted a joint prosecution and defense motion to overturn those convictions, saying Deering's trial violated his constitutional rights.