Judge releases Michigan man who claimed wrongful double homicide conviction

Jeff Titus, 71, was released from a Michigan prison after a judge voided a 2002 double homicide conviction that Titus long maintained was erroneous.

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’ rights were violated at trial in 2002 when his lawyer never was informed that sheriff’s investigators in Kalamazoo County had gathered evidence years earlier against Thomas Dillon, the state's conviction integrity unit said.