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.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