State Appellate Defender Office

This is the second installment of a two-part series about the lingering repercussions of Detroit's rape kit backlog. It examines how Terance Calhoun's wrongful imprisonment for a serial rapist's crimes ended up claiming multiple victims.

One of the bills before the state House Judiciary Committee would allow defendants who pleaded guilty to ask to have their cases reopened.

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.

Three Jackson County men who were serving life without parole for murders they committed as minors will be re-sentenced.MLive reports that all three men —…