This is the seventh installment in “Exploring Integrity: Reviewing Wrongful Conviction Remedies,” a series examining the impact of conviction integrity units on the American judicial system’s rate of wrongful conviction. Presented by the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism, the investigation is supported by Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Detroit’s top man at the Fire Department still hasn’t broken public silence about one of his career’s most high-profile cases — but he came closer to it than ever on Thursday.
Commissioner Charles “Chuck” Simms avoided a subpoena to testify in a hearing for Mario Willis, who’s widely believed to have been wrongfully convicted in a firefighter’s 2008 murder, after a prosecutor said Simms acknowledged conducting an interview that supports Willis’s innocence claim…