New at Reason: Radley Balko on How a Middle Class Family's Eyes Were Opened to the Inadequacies of the Criminal Justice System

November 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Wayne County, Michigan Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny threw out the murder conviction of Dwayne Provience, who had been convicted for a 2000 drug-related murder in downtown Detroit. One of Provience's attorneys was Nick Cheolas, a third-year law student at the University of Michigan who took an interest in the school's Innocence Clinic after watching his own family's five-year battle against local police and prosecutors.

Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko explains how the paths of two very different families crossed in a Detroit courtroom that morning to cheer Provience's release from prison.

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