Detroit to pay $7.5M to man who claims cops switched bullets
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a man who claimed police switched bullets to pin a murder on him in 1992.
Desmond Ricks was released from prison in 2017 after 25 years, thanks to gun experts, law students at the University of Michigan and his insistence that he was innocent.
Ricks was convicted of fatally shooting a friend outside a Detroit restaurant in 1992.
Police seized a gun that belonged to Ricks’ mother and said it was the murder weapon.
The Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school asked a judge to reopen the case.
Photos of two bullets taken from the victim did not resemble the bullets that were examined by a defense expert decades earlier.
The actual bullets didn't match the gun.
CLS plans annual picnic August 7
The Catholic Lawyers Society of Metropolitan Detroit will host the Jacobs-Bellanca Family Summer Picnic, Mass, & Annual Meeting on Sunday, Aug. 7, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Osius Park, 800 Lake Shore Rd. in Grosse Pointe Shores.
The CLS spiritual advisor, Msgr. Ronald Browne, will celebrate mass at 3 p.m. The annual meeting and picnic supper will follow. Cost is $10 per person or $25 per family.
For additional information, visit www.catholiclawyerssociety.org and click on “events.”
Webinar examines alternatives to detention for juveniles
The National Center for State Courts will present the webinar “Alternatives to Detention” on Thursday, July 28, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. via Zoom.
NCSC is presenting this webinar as part of a series focused on how juvenile court stakeholders can best support young people in the post-pandemic era across the justice system.
In “Alternatives to Detention,” Nate Balis, director of the Juvenile Justice Strategy Group at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, will describe lessons learned from building better and more equitable youth justice system through the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI).
He will be joined by Lisa Gerry, executive director of the Office of Equity and Inclusion for Maryland's Department of Juvenile Services, who will tell the story of how Maryland launched and sustained improvement efforts through JDAI.
To register for the program, visit www.ncsc.org and click on “webinars.”
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