Michigan Innocence Clinic client Quinton Jones-Whitaker exonerated after serving a 12-1/2 year prison sentence
Published: July 16, 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. The only evidence against him was a flawed witness identification.
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