A judge has thrown out convictions and ordered the release of a man who has long claimed innocence in the slayings of two Michigan deer hunters in 1990.
DETROIT --
Titus emerged a few hours after a judge threw out his murder convictions under an agreement between the attorney general’s office and the Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school. Titus still could face a second trial, though David Moran of the Innocence Clinic suggested that was very unlikely.
Doug Estes and Jim Bennett were fatally shot near Titus’ rural property in 1990. Titus was cleared as a suspect — he had been hunting deer 27 miles away — but murder charges were filed against him 12 years later, after a new team of investigators had reopened the case. Later, while that appeal was pending, Moran made a stunning discovery in dusty boxes at the sheriff's office: a 30-page file from the original investigation that had referred to an alternate suspect. It was Dillon, a Magnolia, Ohio, man who was never charged.
A man who had shared a jail cell with Dillon in 1993 told the FBI that Dillon had referred to killing two people in woods, according to the file.
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