Desmond Ricks was wrongfully convicted of murder, and after spending over 20 years in prison, he was released in 2017. Although the Detroit man received over $7 million from a separate lawsuit, a Court of Appeals decision has now ordered him to return more than one million dollars of that money to the state.
Ricks spent approximately 25 years in state prison, consistently asserting his innocence in a murder case.
After his release, Ricks received compensation under the state’s Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act (WICA), which provided him with about $50,000 for each year he was incarcerated…