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Detroit Cops Who Fabricated Evidence to Wrongfully Convict 14-Year-Old Not on Prosecutor’s Brady List
Loaded on Aug. 28, 2020
by Dale Chappell
by Dale Chappell
An officer from the Detroit, Michigan, Police Department who fabricated evidence in order to convict a 14-year-old boy of murders he didn’t commit were not on the list of problem officers that prosecutors shouldn’t call as witnesses. Now the family wants to know why.
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