Michigan Innocence Clinic client exonerated after serving 12-1/2-year prison sentence
Published: June 24, 2026
In 2014, when Quinton Jones-Whitaker was 20 years old, he was convicted
of carjacking, armed robbery, and felony firearm possession and was
sentenced to 12 1/2 to 22 years in prison. But he wasn’t involved in the
crime, and no physical evidence linked him to it.
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