CNN has picked up Metro Times’s reporting on retired Detroit homicide Detective Barbara Simon, bringing national attention to a scandal that has led to multiple exonerations, millions of dollars in settlements, and mounting calls for a full review of the cases she handled.

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A Detroit man whose murder conviction was based on coerced witness statements from a disgraced former homicide detective has been exonerated and freed after nearly 28 years in prison. 

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They were young girls and women, walking to school, home, or a friend’s house in Detroit when they were abducted at gunpoint and raped more than two decades ago. 

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A former Detroit homicide detective whose interrogation tactics have led to exonerations and multimillion-dollar settlements is now connected to another vacated conviction.

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When Gregory Berry walked out of prison in December 2020 after more than 17 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit, he said he had faced a difficult choice: Agree not to sue for wrongful imprisonment or remain incarcerated for life.

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