Detroit man freed from prison after life sentence is overturned
A Detroit man who had been convicted in 2005 for double-homicide and arson walked away a free man after a judge overturned his conviction. The Western Michigan University Cooley Law School Innocence Project now claims 28 convictions overturned. RELATED: Man freed after 26 years of wrongful imprisonment for Detroit murderThanks to the Innocence Project, Kenneth Nixon is now a free man. The Innocence Project found the original identification that came from a 13-year-old boy and a jailhouse informant werenโt reliable and overturned the conviction. The mother of two children who were killed, Naomi Vaughn, did not agree with the conviction being overturned.
Man freed after 26 years of wrongful imprisonment for Detroit murder
DETROIT โ An innocent man who wrongfully served 26 years in prison for a Detroit murder has been released on Wednesday. โWe made the decision long ago to never give up fighting for Mr. Hamiltonโs release. And, even sadder, is that Mr. Hamiltonโs case is not unique," said Mary Chartier, one of Mr. Hamiltonโs lead attorneys. In Mr. Hamiltonโs case, the โsnitchโ claimed in numerous cases that men โ men who were strangers โ had spontaneously confessed murder to him. This is just one of the travesties that occurred in Mr. Hamiltonโs case.
Innocence Project seeks to clear a man executed 13 years ago
MEMPHIS, TN Since the early 1990s, 22 death row inmates around the U.S. have been exonerated through DNA evidence. Now, the Innocence Project hopes to go even further and use DNA evidence to exonerate a Tennessee man executed 13 years ago. Sedley Alley received a lethal injection in 2006 for the July 1985 murder of 19-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins, who was raped and beaten near the former Memphis Naval Air Station in Millington. Her attorneys include Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck, who says investigators outside Tennessee contacted him about an alternative suspect in Collins death.