#12 Wrongful Convictions: Desmond Ricks

Welcome back creepy cats! We are back with another wrongful conviction, discussing in this episode the conviction of Desmond Ricks. Desmond was a young, black man accused of murdering a friend outside of a fast food restaurant in 1992. The Detroit police department used a ballistics expert to convict Ricks, however, not even their own expert knew the truth behind this conviction, or the lengths police were willing to go...

 

https://www.michiganradio.org/term/desmond-ricks
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5149
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/04/judge-rules-detroit-man-can-sue-cop-for-100m-after-spending-25-years-in-prison.html

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/04/08/judge-desmond-ricks-wrongly-convicted-cops-trial/5119522002/

https://www.michiganradio.org/post/expert-prevent-wrongful-convictions-crime-labs-need-independence-police-departments