MURDER CONVICTION

A judge agreed to close the case against Deering, who spent 15 years behind bars for a fire that killed five children.

A man who was granted a new trial in 2019 has waited nearly two years for the trial to start.

A man who was convicted of murder in 1989 in Oakland County was released Wednesday after DNA evidence exonerated him.

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said she is “gravely concerned” about potential ethical breaches after reviewing the 2006 murder conviction of Juwan Deering related to a deadly fire that killed five children.

A convicted murderer wanted in connection with a fatal Pontiac shooting was taken into custody Saturday by U.S. Marshals.

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is on the hunt for a convicted murderer accused of fatally shooting a Pontiac man and injuring a Waterford Township woman.

On Thursday, Feb. 4, the now-45-year-old became a free man -- a moment his daughter Nakira Fantroy has been waiting for. Smith was convicted of first-degree murder and felony firearm on Nov. 29, 1994, in the death of Kenneth Hayes when Smith was only 19 years old. There was no conclusive forensic evidence that linked Mr. Smith to the case,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. “There was testimony in the case from a jail house informant claiming that Smith had confessed the murder to him. The dismissal of charges comes after an investigation by Prosecutor Kym Worthy and the WCPO Conviction Integrity Unit, headed by director Valerie Newman.

INKSTER, Mich. – Two men cleared of murder have filed a $160 million lawsuit against two Inkster police detectives and the city. Kevin Harrington and George Clark spent nearly 18 years in prison on murder charges. The men accuse the detectives of framing them for the shooting death of Michael Martin in 2002. Last year, investigators determined that one of the detectives threatened a witness in the case. Both Harrington and Clark have been cleared of the crime and said they want justice.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has overturned a conviction of a man serving life in prison for a 1993 murder. The court overturned the 2014 murder conviction of Johnny Kennedy because a judge did not allow Kennedy’s lawyer to hire a DNA expert at public expense. Kennedy was found guilty of killing a woman in 1993 in Detroit after police linked DNA on the victim’s body to him. Prosecutors are now asking the state Supreme Court to look at the case. More: Local coverage news