Jeff Titus, 71, was released from a Michigan prison after a judge voided a 2002 double homicide conviction that Titus long maintained was erroneous.
A man was released Friday after serving nearly 21 years in a, freed from a life sentence after state authorities acknowledged that an Ohio serial killer could have been the person who killed two deer hunters in 1990.
Titus’ rights were violated at trial in 2002 when his lawyer never was informed that sheriff’s investigators in Kalamazoo County had gathered evidence years earlier against Thomas Dillon, the state's conviction integrity unit said.Attorney General Dana NesselTitus still could face a second trial, though David Moran of the Innocence Clinic suggested that was very unlikely.
A Michigan judge ordered the release of Jeff Titus, who claimed he was wrongfully convicted of double homicide in 2002, from prison. In 2018, the Innocence Clinic went to federal court, arguing that Titus' constitutional rights were violated because his trial lawyer was never told about another police theory of how the victims were killed.
A man who had shared a jail cell with Dillon in 1993 told the FBI that Dillon had referred to killing two people in woods, according to the file.
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