They aren’t going away.
Fifteen months after Metro Times exposed coerced confessions and illegally destroyed criminal files, exonerees and families of people still locked up are demanding action and a face-to-face meeting with Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.
In July 2024, Metro Times revealed widespread misconduct tied to now-retired Detroit homicide Detective Barbara Simon and the illegal purge of prosecutor files from 1995 and earlier. The records were destroyed while Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan was prosecutor between 2001 and 2004, according to Worthy’s office…