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Davontae Sanford, in prison for murders he almost certainly didn’t commit, finally gets national exposure in The New Yorker

By Mark | October 23, 2012

Over the past three years, we’ve discussed the troubling case of Davontae Sanford several times. As you may recall, Davontae was taken into police custody in Detroit at the age of 14 for the murder of four people. We’re told that Davontae, who is developmentally disabled, and blind in one eye, confessed to the murders. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit | Also tagged Christine Moellering, coerced confessions, confessions, Dateline NBC, Davontae Sanford, getting away with murder, Kim McGinnis, Michael Russell, Michigan Court of Appeals, murder, murder for hire, murder mystery, prison, prison industrial complex, Taminko Sanford, The Innocence Project, Vincent Smothers | 30 Comments

The strange case of Davontae Sanford

By Mark | January 16, 2011

We haven’t seen her here on the site for the better part of a year, but, for a quite a while, we were getting regular updates from a woman by the name of Taminko Sanford on the fate of her son, Davontae, a prisoner in the Michigan correctional system. Davontae, who was found guilty of […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2007, bad police work, Cheryl Sanford, coerced confessions, crime, David Cobb, Davontae Sanford, Detroit corruption, Detroit Police, Detroit police crime lab, Diane Bukowski, drug gangs, Ernest Davis, false imprisonment, Gerald Williams, hit men, homicide, Ira Todd, James Davis, Kwame Kilpatrick, Kym Worthy, LaTonya Brooks, Michael Stefani, Mitchell Foster, murder, murder for hire, murder mystery, organized crime, police investigations, Rose Cobb, Russell Marcilis Sr., Taminko Sanford, Vincent Smothers, Violent Crimes Task Force, Voice of Detroit, William Rice, wrongly accused | 136 Comments

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