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Elderly Detroit man freed after he was sentenced to life in prison at the age of 18
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in 2022 that sentencing 18-year-olds to life in prison was cruel and unusual punishment
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Ivory Thomas, prison, Michigan, Detroit, murder, Michigan Court of Appeals, People v. Poole, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy
Lapointe: In the Samantha Woll murder case, city uneasy despite arrest
“Random,” in some ways, is scarier than a real motive
By Joe Lapointe
Tags: Metro Detroit, Crime, Lapointe, News, Views & Opinions, Samantha Woll, Detroit Police Department, Kym Worthy, Michael Manuel Jackson-Bolanos, Lafayette Park, Detroit crime
Detroit teacher charged after unlicensed gun fell out of his bag at school
The handgun was ‘dangerously unsecured,’ Wayne County prosecutor says
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Cody High School, school, Detroit, William Kenneth Howard, gun, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy
Detroiter charged with a felony for allegedly burying dog alive
Jacob Xavier Kasper faces up to seven years in prison on two criminal counts
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Crime, Jacob Xavier Kasper, Detroit, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy, animal cruelty
Wayne County workers busted for allegedly falsifying their time sheets
‘There is nothing right about this,’ Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Wayne County, Wayne County Bridge Department, Warren Evans, Kym Worthy, Larceny, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office
Detroit man charged after video shows him brutally beating dog for chewing his Cartier sunglasses
The 29-year-old faces up to seven years in prison
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Cartier sunglasses, Detroit, Wayne County Prosecutor, Kym Worthy, Pit bull, dog, puppy, animal abuse
These 74 cops in Wayne County have been deemed untrustworthy to testify in court
The Brady-Giglio list is named after a pair of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that require police departments and prosecutors to divulge evidence that could help the defense
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy, Brady-Giglio list, Detroit Police Department, theft, dishonesty, fraud, false statements, bias, bribery
Prosecutor won’t charge Detroit cops who shot Porter Burks 19 times
Burks was experiencing a mental health crisis when he lunged at police with a knife
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Detroit police, police, shooting, mental health, Wayne County Prosecutor, Kym Worthy, Chief White
Detroit’s unprocessed rape kit backlog is finally cleared
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced more than 11,000 tests dating back to the ’80s have been processed
By Alex Washington
Tags: Michigan News, News, Kym Worthy, Dana Nessel, Governor Snyder, Rick Snyder, Detroit Police Department, sexual assault awareness
Prosecutor Worthy warns of serious consequences for anyone who intimidates voters
The warning follows revelations that at least three groups led by election conspiracists are planning to challenge voters in Michigan on Tuesday
Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Politics, election, poll watchers, poll challengers, intimidation, Kym Worthy, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, Detroit, Wayne County
Detroit man exonerated of manslaughter after judge cites detective's history of misconduct
Investigator ‘has a history of falsifying confessions and lying under oath,’ judge says
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Mark Craighead, Michigan Innocence Clinic, Exoneration, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy, crime, murder, Wayne County Circuit Court, Judge Shannon Walker
Flint water prosecution of Snyder, 8 others moving forward despite recent setback
Prosecutors say they are still committed ‘to keep fighting for the people of Flint’
Tags: Michigan News, Flint Water Crisis, Rick Snyder, Flint, Flint water crisis, environmental racism, Solicitor General, Fadwa Hammoud, Wayne County Prosecutor, Kym Worthy, Michigan Supreme Court
Michigan is among the top states for exonerating people for wrongful convictions
Eleven people were released from Michigan prisons for crimes they didn't commit in 2021
Tags: Michigan News, Exoneration, Michigan, Michigan Attorney General, Innocence Project, prison, crimes, Kym Worthy, Dana Nessel
Ex-Detroit sergeant charged with embezzling money using prisoner ATM cards
Tags: Detroit police, police, Detroit, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy, embezzlement, Detroit Detention Center, towing scandal
Former Detroit boxer Ray Gray seeks new trial after 48 years in prison for murder he says he didn't commit
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Ray Gray, Detroit, Kym Worthy, Marko Law, true crime
Charges dropped against Detroit cop accused of shooting journalists with rubber bullets
Tags: Detroit, Detroit police, Daniel Debono, protest, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy, George Floyd
Wayne County prosecutor slaps Roseville woman with hate crime following ‘racist rant’ on airplane
Tags: Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, racism, Muslim, Islamophobia, CAIR-MI, Spirit Airlines, Ethnic intimidation, hate crime, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy
Michigan’s ethnic intimidation law protects transgender people, court rules
Tags: LGBTQ, transgender, Michigan Court of Appeals, ethnic intimidation, discrimination, shooting, court, Dana Nessel, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy
Wayne County man exonerated in 2001 double murder is awarded $10M
Tags: Mubarez Ahmed, Detroit, Wayne County, exoneration, Wayne County Prosecutor, Kym Worthy, lawsuit, Detroit police, University of Michigan Law School Innocence Clinic, Wayne County Conviction Integrity Unit, Scott Lewis
No charges filed in mysterious death of woman in Harper Woods jail
Tags: Harper Woods, Police, Jail, Priscilla Slater, Kym Worthy, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office
Netflix is still looking for Detroit ‘Love is Blind’ contestants
Royal Oak’s Hideaway has been transformed into the bar from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’
By Layla McMurtrie
Tigers fixing up run-down Comerica Park ahead of Opening Day with $30M investment