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A state House committee held its first hearing Tuesday on proposed amendments to Michigan’s exoneration law. One of the bills would allow defendants who pleaded guilty to ask a court to order DNA tests as part of an effort to reverse a conviction.
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When Darrell Ewing landed in the Wayne County Jail a year and a half ago, he found a lot of people struggling. Courts were backed up because of the pandemic, and Ewing said people around him lost loved ones or saw relationships fall apart while they waited – sometimes for years – for their trials to begin. On top of that, no one in the jail had been able to see their friends or family since the jail shut down in-person visitation when COVID broke out in March of 2020.
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Michigan Supreme Court Justice Bridget Mary McCormack has called on the new Legislature to fix a legal loophole that denies compensation for people wrongfully convicted of felonies after a decision from the court on Thursday, December 22.
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Michigan lawmakers have introduced three pieces of legislation this week that would institute major reforms around police accountability.The bill package…
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Michigan lawmakers have introduced three pieces of legislation this week that would institute major reforms around police accountability.The bill package…
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Michigan lawmakers have introduced three pieces of legislation this week that would institute major reforms around police accountability.The bill package…
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A special task force on jails and pretrial incarceration handed over 18 policy recommendations to leadership in the state legislature Tuesday.Since 1975…