wrongful conviction

Michigan Radio is involved with several news media partners in a project called the Detroit Journalism Cooperative. One of the issues we're looking at…

Macomb County resident Julie Baumer volunteered to care for her sister’s unwanted baby thirteen years ago. She was a 27-year-old mortgage broker who was…

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy defended her office’s handling of the Davontae Sanford case today.Sanford confessed to four Detroit murders in 2007,…

He was just 14 years old when he confessed to and was convicted of a quadruple murder.But today, 23-year-old Davontae Sanford walks out of Ionia State…

Legislation up for a vote in the state Senate tomorrow would compensate felons who are exonerated for the time they were wrongfully imprisoned. It would…

After spending eight years in prison, a Detroit man convicted of murdering four people has been cleared and ordered released.Davontae Sanford confessed to…

Legislation to compensate people who are wrongly imprisoned in Michigan is moving forward at the state Capitol.A state House committee voted unanimously…

After serving 16 years for a crime he didn’t commit, Jamie Lee Peterson walked away from a courtroom in Kalkaska today a free man.Peterson was convicted…

The human costs of Detroit’s bankruptcy are revealing themselves as the case proceeds in court.For Dwayne Provience, it means yet more uncertainty over an…

The University of Michigan Law School and the Center for Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law recently launched an online…